Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Endangered Mystery Is Off Trail Suspense


Endangered

By Pamela Beason
               
                Please bear with me as I set your course onto the mystery trail of the suspenseful Summer Westin Mystery series by Pamela Beason.  Each book takes place in an intriguing natural environment of the great outdoors.  In these mysteries the setting, a contrast of beauty and danger, adds such an exciting dimension to the stories.

                Summer Westin, known as Sam, is a wildlife biologist, and she also writes articles about the animals and wilderness.  She’s currently Endangered in the back country of Utah.  Passing through the Red Rock Campground, she pauses and meets up with some of her Ranger friends.  She also runs into some of the camping families and unwittingly plays a part in one of the children suddenly going missing.  An intense search ensues on the rugged mountain.  Sam is determined to save the child, and also the wild cougars she loves, when people who are incited by the growing media circus begin blaming the animals for endangering people.  Even the FBI get involved in the search, and the agents assigned are wonderfully down-to-earth characters to enjoy as well.  During the course of the novel there’s even a growing question about a romantic interest for our courageous and smart protagonist.

                The mystery of what’s happened to the child is so suspenseful, you’ll never know what’s around the next corner, or where the trail of clues will take you, not to mention when Sam takes you OT – that’s off trail.  The suspects are uncovered sometimes with deliberation, and some appear unexpectedly.  The action is so engaging you’ll forget you’re a reader and start assuming you’re out there with Sam trekking across the wilderness, with heart pounding determination to save the child and the cougars. 
               
                Pamela Beason is a retired private investigator who lives here in the Pacific Northwest.  She knows the outdoors first hand because when she's not hard at work on her next book, she explores the natural world on foot, in cross-country skis, in her kayak, or underwater scuba diving.  She writes mystery and romantic suspense books with strong women, quirky sidekicks, animals both domestic and wild, a dash of humor, and a big dose of suspense.  After reading her other Summer Westin Mystery books with Sam solving mysteries in the Galapagos, and nearby in the Cascades, try her Neema Mystery series.

And if you want to hear more from the author, tune into Kendall & Cooper Talk Mysteries with Pamela Beason

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