Crazy Mountain Kiss

<b>Winner of the Spur Award for Best Western Contemporary Novel <p/>In the fourth novel in the acclaimed Sean Stranahan mystery series PI Stranahan and Sheriff Ettinger reunite to investigate a teenage girl's death. <b><i>Cold Hearted River</i> the sixth in the series is now available. </b></b> <p/>Spring snow still clings to the teeth of Montana's Crazy Mountains when an unsuspecting member of the Madison River Liars and Fly Tiers Club discovers a Santa hat in the fireplace ashes of his rented cabin. Climbing to the roof to see what's clogging the flue he's shocked to find the body of a teenage girl wedged into the chimney. A rodeo belt buckle identifies the recently deceased victim as Cinderella Cindy Huntington a rising rodeo star. Hyalite County sheriff Martha Ettinger has been hunting for the girl since she went missing the previous November. <p/> Was Cindy murdered? Or was she running for her life--and if so from whom? Suspicion falls on a buckskin-clad mountain man who calls himself Bear Paw Bill. But Etta Huntington Cindy's high-strung mother herself a famous horsewoman thinks the evil might lie closer to home. She hires fly-fishing guide and private detective Sean Stranahan to find the answers. Setting aside their after-hours relationship Sean and Martha find themselves deep in an investigation that grows to involve a high-altitude sex club a lost diary cave pictographs and the legends of the Crazy Mountains. With his signature wit and wry humor McCafferty writes a pitch-perfect mystery that is as haunting as the Crazies.