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Jul 22, 2022 at 9:21 am #3755651
The third book in my mysteries series set in the Sierra Nevada is out! Holes in the Ground pays homage to mining history of the foothills, and brings back Ranger Dan Courtwright and his best friend, Sheriff Cal Healey. As the back cover notes: “The hikers passing through the Emigrant Wilderness on the Pacific Crest Trail may or may not be who they say they are. With trail names, who can tell? But Ranger Dan Courtwright finds himself in the middle of a much bigger story, and it is up to him and Sheriff Cal Healey to get to the bottom of it.”
The books have been getting some nice reviews: “Paul Wagner’s love of the outdoors and his experience hiking and camping takes readers right into the mountains. The zippy writing keeps the story moving along the Sierra trails, through the lineup of interesting, quirky characters, and down the winding mystery path until the satisfying end.”
— Rick Kushman, best-selling NY Times author and commentator for Capital Public Radio in SacramentoIf your local bookstore doesn’t have it, the BookMine in Napa carries the whole series.
https://www.napabookmine.com/or, you can always get them on Amazon, in either paperback or Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B6H4K2P5/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vamf_tkin_p1_i6
If you want a signed copy, just drop me a pm.
Jul 22, 2022 at 5:01 pm #3755666Thanks Paul for the update.
Back in the mid 1970s, I knew two people older than I was who left the backcountry ranger career track because it was clear than that rangers for the USFS (or the National Park Service or the California State Park) would have to become sworn officers and armed because of increased criminal activity in our wildernesses and open spaces.
Jul 22, 2022 at 5:11 pm #3755667Hi Bruce
That’s a great point. In these books, Dan is a wilderness ranger–never involved directly in criminal investigations, but he knows the wilderness. And his good friend Cal is the local Sheriff, who does do most of the criminal investigations. They make a successful, and at times amusing, team!
Jul 25, 2022 at 9:59 pm #3755774I’m reading Bones of the Earth right now. I’ll have to check the new one out soon.
Oct 25, 2023 at 10:13 pm #3791857Vertical Exposure, the latest in my series of mysteries set in the High Sierra, is now out! You can find it at the usual places, including bookstores like Napa Bookmine and the Mountain Bookstore in Sonora, Amazon, and even in the ranger stations in the Stanislaus National Forest.
When a legendary alpine climber leads a professional workshop on high-exposure Search and Rescue techniques, the last thing you would expect is that someone would die. And yet…
It’s up to Ranger Dan Courtwright and his friend Sheriff Cal Healey to uncover the truth. And the secrets that come to light threaten to expose more than one suspect.Here’s a link to the Amazon page: https://www.amazon.com/Vertical-Exposure-Dan-Courtwright-Mystery/dp/B0CJ5YBSBX
Oct 26, 2023 at 4:37 pm #3791937I’ve enjoyed all of them so far and will get this one tonight.
Oct 26, 2023 at 10:49 pm #3791978Thanks, Mark!
Oct 27, 2023 at 5:47 am #3791979Working by the lookout tower around Zephyr Cove(Tahoe), it was a ranger that approached us with pictures looking for an arson suspect. It wasn’t a sheriff. They have investigators . Not just rangers. They do their own investigating.
Oct 27, 2023 at 7:28 am #3791982Depends on the crime and the situation, Terran. Most murder investigations get turned over to the local LEOs, or sometimes the FBI. But the rangers certainly help out with investigations.
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