Dead Man's Fancy
Sean Stranahan Mysteries: Book #3
- By: Keith McCafferty
- Narrated by: Rick Holmes
- Length: 10 hours 1 minutes
Description
A wonderful Montana mystery starring fly fisherman-cum-detective Sean Stranahan, for fans of C. J. Box and Craig Johnson Wolves howl as a riderless horse returns at sunset to the Culpepper Dude Ranch in the Madison Valley. The missing woman, Nanika Martinelli, is better known as the Fly Fishing Venus, a red-haired river guide who lures clients the way dry flies draw trout. As Sheriff Martha Ettinger follows hoof tracks in the snow, she finds one of the men who has fallen under the temptress' s spell impaled on the antler tine of a giant bull elk, a kill that' s been claimed by a wolf pack. An accident? If not, is the killer human or animal? With painter, fly fisherman, and sometimes private detective Sean Stranahan' s help, Ettinger will follow clues that point to an animal rights group called the Clan of the Three-Clawed Wolf and to their svengali master, whose eyes blaze with pagan fire.
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Sean Stranahan Mysteries Series

The Royal Wulff Murders
By: Keith McCafferty
Narrated by: Rick Holmes
Length: 10 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
An award-winning editor for Field & Stream magazine, Keith McCafferty presents his debut novel, The Royal Wulff Murders. A local fisherman lands more than he bargained for when he pulls a dead body out of Montana’s Madison River. Sheriff Martha Ettinger takes on the case and soon comes into the company of reclusive artist, Montana newcomer,... Read more »
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The Gray Ghost Murders
By: Keith McCafferty
Narrated by: Rick Holmes
Length: 9 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
With this follow-up to The Royal Wulff Murders, acclaimed author Keith McCafferty brings back fly-fishing PI Sean Stranahan for a second quirky adventure. When two graves are found on the mysterious Sphinx Mountain, the local sheriff suspects murder and calls on Stranahan to join the case. Then a vintage Gray Ghost lure from a riverside cabin... Read more »
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Dead Man's Fancy
By: Keith McCafferty
Narrated by: Rick Holmes
Length: 10 hours 1 minutes
Abridged: No
A wonderful Montana mystery starring fly fisherman-cum-detective Sean Stranahan, for fans of C. J. Box and Craig Johnson Wolves howl as a riderless horse returns at sunset to the Culpepper Dude Ranch in the Madison Valley. The missing woman, Nanika Martinelli, is better known as the Fly Fishing Venus, a red-haired river guide who lures clients... Read more »
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Crazy Mountain Kiss
By: Keith McCafferty
Narrated by: Rick Holmes
Length: 10 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
It's April, but there's still snow on the Montana mountains the day a member of the Madison River Liar and Fly Tiers club finds a Santa hat in the chimney of his rented cabin. With the flue clogged and desperate to make a fire, he climbs up to the roof, only to find the body of a teenage girl wedged into the chimney. When Sheriff Martha Ettinger... Read more »
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Buffalo Jump Blues
By: Keith McCafferty
Narrated by: Rick Holmes
Length: 9 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
In the wake of Fourth of July fireworks in Montana's Madison Valley, Hyalite County sheriff Martha Ettinger and Deputy Sheriff Harold Little Feather investigate a horrific scene at the Palisades cliffs, where a herd of bison have fallen to their deaths. Victims of blind panic caused by the pyrotechnics, or a ritualistic hunting practice dating... Read more »
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Cold Hearted River
By: Keith McCafferty
Narrated by: Rick Holmes
Length: 10 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
The sixth novel in the acclaimed Sean Stranahan mystery series Sheriff Martha Ettinger reunites with once-again lover and sometime private detective Sean Stranahan to investigate the death of a woman who was stranded in a spring snowstorm. When a fly wallet is found in a pannier on the saddle of the woman's horse, the leather engraved with the... Read more »
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A Death in Eden
By: Keith McCafferty
Narrated by: Rick Holmes
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
The seventh novel in the acclaimed Sean Stranahan mystery series: Scarecrows are appearing in the cliffs above the Smith River in Montana, and state investigator Harold Little Feather, is trying to discover the culprit leaving the hay figures in the cliffs, with signs painted that read "No Smith River Mine-Not on My Watch." The event is related... Read more »
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The Bangtail Ghost
By: Keith McCafferty
Narrated by: Rick Holmes
Length: 8 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
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