David Riley Bertsch

Good first book in this new series, the lead character is a transplanted attorney, who is now running a bread and breakfast while establishing a career as a fishing guide in Wyoming's Tetons. Becoming embroiled in a local murder investigation, Jake Trent teams up with Park Ranger Noelle to try to find who is killing people in and around Jackson Hole. While some parts of this read like science fiction, in reality use of geothermal power is being explored as an energy source, and extensive drilling is causing small earthquakes, in various parts of the world. This environmental fiction is then a scary warning of possible consequences of such explorations. The author also includes good descriptions of the landscape of the Tetons, and Yellowstone National Park. Although there is not a lot of character development in this first book, the story was intriguing, and I will plan to read the next in the series when it is released.… (más)