The Bitterroots

Description

Former sheriff's investigator Cassie Dewell is trying to start over with her own private investigation firm. The latest novel in the Barry Award-winning Highway Quartet series. The latest installment in the crime series that inspired Big Sky.The ties that bind can burn you. Former investigator Cassie Dewell is trying to start over. But when an old friend calls in a favour, she can't refuse: a man has been accused of assaulting a young woman from an influential family, and he needs Cassie's help. Against her better judgment, Cassie agrees. But out by the Bitterroot Mountains of Montana, twisted family loyalty runs as deep as the ties to the land, and there's always something more to the story. As Cassie attempts to uncover the truth, she must confront a family whose roots are tangled and deadly and face the ghosts of her own past.

C.J. Box is the winner of the Anthony Award, Prix Calibre 38 (France), the Macavity Award, the Gumshoe Award, the Barry Award, and is an Edgar Award and L.A. Times Book Prize finalist. He lives in Wyoming.

'There is much to enjoy about C.J. Box ... There is always an almost poetic depiction of the land and the wildlife in Montana or North Dakota' Crime Review Blog.