Blue Wolf — Lise McClendon

BLOOD TRAIL

As Jackson Hole, Wyoming, gallery owner Alix Thorssen plans an art auction to promote wolf conservation, she is plunged into a bitter feud between ranchers and environmentalists--and an old mystery involving the strange death of a teenage boy.

A reclusive artist delivers a stunning painting of a blue wolf at the auction, and asks Alix a favor: investigate the accidental shooting of Derek Wylie, whose death twenty-five years earlier went oddly uninvestigated. Alix does some preliminary digging ... and finds disturbing clues to a murder and a cover-up.

It is one that leads by tangled threads to the heated animosity right now in Jackson Hole, as the artist and her painting become the catalyst in a brewing storm of rage, guilt and dark secrets left behind in a trail of old blood....