Kittling: Books

  First Line: Weather could make or break a search and rescue mission, and the wind would play havoc with the scent trail today .   Deputy M...

  First Line: "Look-- over there," said the guide in a hushed voice, handing Olivia the binoculars .   Erebus Resort, deep in the ...

  First Line: The call came late on an August evening while Jeremy Kane was upstairs, rocking his infant daughter .   When she was in the Ma...

  First Line: Catherine tapped the brakes and turned into a street filled with SUVs, black-and-white police cars, yellow and red lights flas...

  First Line: No death could have been more profound .   When the body of a young Muslim girl is found at a local mosque in Blackwater Falls...

First Line: Today Deputy Mattie Cobb could interrogate the man who had once tried to kill her .   Deputy Mattie Cobb traveled to the Colorad...

First Line: I leaned back in the seat of my old Ford Pinto, listening to the sounds coming from the Depot, the reservation's only tavern...

First Lines: Friday afternoon, mid-July. A stitch in her side plagued Deputy Mattie Cobb as she jogged uphill, telling her that her level of...

First Line: His name was Joel Beer, but even that was partly made up . I have to admit that I read this short story about a man who spe...

First Line: Her husband brought home little from the war . When a woman is murdered on the train tracks and a child goes missing, Speci...

First Line: Tonight, the stage had been set for love . When a bomb explodes and the body of outfitter Nate Fletcher is found shot throu...

First Line: It was snowing already, in early November, after days of hot, clear fall weather . When mother of two Amy Raye Latour doesn...

First Line: His life wasn't worth spit in a hard rain . When his fiancée is found murdered, the prime suspect is the Burned Man, a ...

First Line: If Deputy Mattie Cobb had eaten supper at home with her K-9 partner, Robo, she wouldn't have noticed the rig parked illeg...

First Line: Someone was knocking on her office door, but Lee didn't move or call out . Lee Isaacs is about to turn sixty, and she...

First Line: On a cold and bitter night in February, twelve weeks after giving birth, I returned to what I knew best: death . It's j...

First Line: In my dreams, the dead can speak . Cedar Valley, Colorado is filled with hikers and campers in the summer and skiers and sn...

First Line: " Whom do you trust, Mattie? "  Deputy Mattie Cobb is having a difficult time dealing with issues from her past, ...

First Line: Lydia heard the distant flap of paper wings as the first book fell from its shelf . Young Joey Molina is a proud member of ...

First Line: When Thomas Wolfe said you can't go home again, Cat Latimer wondered if he knew he was full of crap .  When former Engl...