Sean Stranahan Books in Order

In Montana’s remote Gravelly Range, paw prints and a single whisker at a scene of bloodshed suggest a woman was taken by a mountain lion. Sheriff Martha Ettinger and her fiancé Sean Stranahan must separate natural predation from human malice as more deaths follow and panic ripples through the Madison Valley.

Strange scarecrows appear on the cliffs above Montana’s Smith River, and a child claims one chased her in the night, drawing investigator Harold Little Feather into the canyon. Upstream, Sean Stranahan guides a rafting trip that pits a mine developer against a river activist, and the journey turns deadly when buried history and politics collide at a place called Eden.

When a woman vanishes in a spring snowstorm and is later found dead in a bear’s den, Sean Stranahan and Sheriff Martha Ettinger discover a wallet of old trout flies stamped with the initials E H. The trail pulls Sean into a hunt for Ernest Hemingway’s missing steamer trunk and the secrets tied to it across Montana, Michigan, and Wyoming.

After fireworks echo over Montana’s Madison Valley, a herd of bison plunges from the cliffs at an ancient buffalo jump, leaving Sheriff Martha Ettinger with a grim scene and a dead man among the animals. At the same time, Sean Stranahan searches for a missing musician, and their paths collide in a case about wildlife, identity, and long broken promises.

A teenage rodeo star is discovered wedged in a chimney high in Montana’s Crazy Mountains, months after she vanished in the snow. Hired by the girl’s driven mother, Sean Stranahan teams up with Sheriff Martha Ettinger to untangle small town rumors, secret trysts, and eerie mountain legends that refuse to stay buried.

Wolves, a missing river guide, and a riderless horse returning at dusk draw Sean Stranahan and Sheriff Martha Ettinger into the mystery of Nanika Martinelli, the so called Fly Fishing Venus. Their search leads into the bitter fight over wolf reintroduction, an extremist animal rights group, and a family willing to risk anything for revenge.

Two sets of bear ravaged remains on Sphinx Mountain leave Sheriff Martha Ettinger convinced that murder is hiding behind a staged wilderness tragedy. Sean Stranahan is hired to track down a stolen, highly prized Gray Ghost fly, and soon both investigations twist together in a case where old grudges and rare collectibles turn deadly.

When a fishing guide hauls a young man’s body from Montana’s Madison River, a Royal Wulff trout fly in his lip points to murder rather than accident. Sheriff Martha Ettinger and newcomer Sean Stranahan, a painter and ex private eye, follow tangled clues through fly fishing culture, family secrets, and dangerous currents in Big Sky country.