The Green Mosaic — Stephen F. Wilcox

Stephen Wilcox's mysteries featuring reporter and amateur sleuth T.S.W. Sheridan complement their twisty plots with smart, witty writing and the best local-color mystery writing north of the isle of Manhattan. With The Green Mosaic, Wilcox introduces new elements that bring this mystery a step beyond its predecessors: the rugged terrain of the Adirondacks, and a mysterious death involving a band of environmental activists and their charismatic, renegade leader. The victim is Glenny Oldham, an Indian Lake photojournalist and green activist. The body was found fallen from a slope she should have been able to negotiate in her sleep. And the pieces of the puzzle include old flames, new jealousies, and a local culture steeped in age-old hostilities between forces of progress and preservation....
...Just the kind of worm-can Sheridan could do without opening.