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- Winner of the 2018 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Crime Novel, and shortlisted for the 2018 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize - A murder mystery with a twist: some of the victims are animals protected in national parks - Introduces a female sleuth who is stubborn, irreverent, and known for saying what others can't or won't, and for taking things very personally - Explores moral and political questions around trophy hunting in protected areas - Masterfully plotted, with a suspenseful, almost frantic, build - Takes place in spectacular western mountain landscapes of B.C. and Alberta, and around the U.S. Pacific Northwest - Loosely inspired by an investigation in which the author was involved when he worked as a national park warden in Banff - Shortlisted for the 2015 Unhanged Arthur Ellis Award for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel

Dave Butler is a forester and biologist living in Cranbrook, B.C., in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains. His writing and photography have appeared in numerous Canadian publications. Dave is Director of Sustainability at Canadian Mountain Holidays, a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal winner, and a Royal Canadian Geographical Society Fellow.