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Wolf Kill

A Sam Rivers Mystery

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Wolf Kill

By: Cary J. Griffith
Narrated by: Bill Larson
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In this outdoors thriller, the investigation of a bizarre wolf attack leads to evidence of murder, conspiracy, and shocking family secrets.

A decades-old promise haunts Sam Rivers, but the wildlife biologist refuses to return home - not with his abusive and estranged father still there. Rivers left the family farm some 20 years ago. He found solace in nature and built a respected career as a special agent for the US Fish and Wildlife Service. His experiences have given him a penchant for understanding predators - a skill he’ll need now more than ever.

After his father’s mysterious death, Rivers is lured back to his hometown of Defiance, in Northern Minnesota, to fulfill his mother’s dying wish. But all is not as it seems. Rivers breaks into his childhood home during a howling winter storm and discovers something sinister. His suspicions are heightened after a bizarre wolf attack on local livestock. The events lead the special agent to a series of clues that could change everything he knows - or thinks he knows - about the town, his family, and himself.

With the help of alluring reporter Diane Talbott, Rivers must unravel the wolf kill and learn what really happened to his father - a man Rivers has hated for most of his life. It is a case unlike any he’s worked before. His knowledge of frigid winters, wolves, and wilderness will be put to the test as he tries to solve the case - and stay alive.

In Wolf Kill, natural history writer Cary J. Griffith introduces listeners to Sam Rivers, the predator’s predator, and weaves a masterful tale of danger and suspense in the Far North.

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©2021 Cary J. Griffith (P)2021 Adventure Publications
Crime Thrillers Fiction Modern Detectives Suspense Thriller Winter Wolf Mystery

Critic Reviews

“In northern Minnesota, winter is full of dangers that can kill: Hard cold, hard men, and hungry wolves. Cary Griffith brings the menace of all three into play in his riveting new thriller. Returning to the childhood home he fled twenty years earlier, Sam Rivers finds himself battling a group of scheming reprobates and struggling against an avalanche of painful memories. Griffith’s intimacy with the territory he writes about comes through in every line. I loved this novel and recommend it highly. But I suggest you enjoy it under a warm blanket. Honestly, I’ve never read a book that evokes the fierce winter landscape of the North Country better than Wolf Kill.” (William Kent Krueger, Edgar Award-winning author of This Tender Land)

“Griffith’s prose makes you feel the winter chill...and the twisty plot delivers a chill down your spine. This is a Minnesota mystery with razor-sharp teeth.” (Brian Freeman, New York Times best-selling author of The Deep, Deep Snow)

“Up here in the North Country, we have a bounty of fine mystery writers. Krueger, Housewright, Eskins, Freeman, Mejia, Sanford...add to that list Cary Griffith, whose Wolf Kill thrills for its plotting, superb writing, and unforgettable characters, not least the brutal Minnesota winter. Sam Rivers is not only a fine sleuth, but a complicated man with a complicated history and a fair family grudge. Taken together, he’s a force, both on the page and long after you finish reading his story. Good thing there’s more of him to go around, and I’ll be first in line for the next Sam Rivers novel.” (Peter Geye, author of Northernmost)

“The latest from accomplished Minnesota author Cary J. Griffith brings us a new North Woods hero to join the ranks of William Kent Krueger’s Cork O’Connell and Allen Eskens’ Max Rupert. He even gives Brian Freeman’s Minnesota-to-the-core Jonathan Stride a run for the money.” (Genny Greene, Star Tribune)

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