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A chewed-up corpse high in the Flat Tops Wilderness Area leaves Colorado hunting guide Allison Coil mystified. Obvious signs suggest the dead man is the victim of a mountain lion attack, but Allison’s instincts tell her otherwise. Miles away in down- town Glenwood Springs, a controversial candidate for U.S. Senate is shot during a campaign stop as news-paper reporter Duncan Bloom watches, dodging the long-range gunfire. Trapline follows Coil and Bloom as their investigations collide, exposing the dark depths of human indifference.
Winner of the 2015 Colorado Book Award for Mystery
Praise:
"A chilling tale."―The Denver Post
"Allison's third adventure . . . combines a loving portrait of a beautiful area with an ugly, all-too-believable conspiracy that could have been ripped from today's headlines."―Kirkus Reviews
“Readers will enjoy the fast-paced action."―Mystery Scene
"A well-executed and suspenseful narrative . . . The book is a thrilling read."―The Aspen Times
“Stevens has a clean style and keeps the plot moving."―Albuquerque Free Press
"[Mark Stevens] weaves a brilliant tale that makes it difficult to put the book down."―Colorado Country Times
“Thrilling, complex, and well-crafted with more twists and turns than a high road through the Rocky Mountains . . . No doubt about it, Mark Stevens is an author to watch!”―Margaret Coel, New York Times bestselling author of the Wind River Mystery series
“Trapline rings as true as the beautiful mountains and valleys that frame this exciting, tense drama of today’s Colorado.”―Manuel Ramos, award-winning author of Desperado: A Mile High Noir
- Sales Rank: #1032760 in Books
- Published on: 2014-11-08
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x 5.00" w x .75" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 408 pages
Review
"Trapline is more than a mystery, it's a political thriller of sorts that resolves around the issue of illegal immigration ... Everything comes together in the end in a chilling tale set against the grandeur of the Colorado mountains." - The Denver Post
"This murder mystery has two things I love: a Western setting and two strong plots that coincide. Trapline by Mark Stevens also has two amateur sleuths who fit all of my criteria. They are strong characters who are competent in their fields, hunting guide and reporter, and as such they have license and the means to snoop ... (Stevens) is as good at writing action sequences as he is when emotions are at work. Stevens has a clean style and keeps the plot moving in this, his third mystery in the Allison Coil series." - Albuquerque Free Press
"...a well-executed and suspenseful narrative following the self-reliant outdoorswoman and intrepid journalist as they stay a step ahead of the police. The book is a thrilling read for fans of the genre, filled with twists, political intrigue and a dose of wilderness." - The Aspen Times
"Allison's third adventure (Buried by the Roan, 2011, etc.) combines a loving portrait of a beautiful area with an ugly, all-too-believable conspiracy that could have been ripped from today's headlines." - Kirkus Reviews
"Stevens harnesses the shadowy undercurrents of our time and spurs them to a gallop. Leading the charge is Allison Coil, a uniquely brilliant investigator who operates on instinct and has the uncanny ability to see the world on an elemental level." - Warren Hammond, author of Kop, Ex-Kop, Kop Killer and the Tides of Maritinia
About the Author
Mark Stevens (Denver, CO) worked as a reporter for The Christian Science Monitor, The Rocky Mountain News, The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, The Denver Post, and Denver Public Schools. He is a member of the Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, Western Writers of America and the Colorado Authors League.
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Excellent Writing
By gerald
I have visited Glenwoood Springs many times over the last 55 years so the very graphic description of the area was easy to identify with and helped me visualize the movements throughout the book. Excellent writing and spellbinding plot that isn't easy to figure out as your reading the book Highly recomment.
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Wonderful writing makes for a wonderful story
By Amazon Customer
One of the pleasures of reading Mark Stevens’ Trapline is the evocation of the open country — pines, elk, immense western sky — made inviting by Stevens’ prose. Stevens knows whereof he writes: descriptions of a horseback ride across a wild meadow or through an unmarked canyon are penned with detailed authenticity. Stevens may have had a USGS map in front of him as he wrote, but I suspect he wrote much of it from memory.
Many years ago when I finished reading The Sun Also Rises, I wanted to travel immediately to the Pyrenees to fish the Irati River. (I also wanted to meet Lady Brett Ashley — but that’s a different problem.) When I finished reading Trapline, my goal was to fish and hunt in the Flat Tops Wilderness in western Colorado. Since I reside in Denver, my chances of visiting Stevens’ country is better than that of visiting Hemingway’s.
The wonderfully evoked country is almost a character itself alongside the novel’s true characters: Allison Coil, her lover Colin, a newsman named Duncan Bloom, and a superb miscellany of police and Colorado mountain folk. The Flat Tops and the nearby city of Glenwood Springs are the focal point of activity involving transportation of illegal immigrants from the country’s southern border. Allison Coil finds herself involved because of a body found in the Flat Tops as she was preparing to guide hunters through the area.
Coil, a well-seasoned Colorado hunting guide, shares her expert knowledge of her craft — guns, bow and arrows, tracking — with the flatlanders she guides and with us readers. I loved Allison. Part of the fun of the book is Stevens’ descriptions of her methods of outdoorsmanship. After traveling alongside Allison through the course of the novel, one can imagine sharing the adventure, to ride and hunt and camp as well as she does, roughing it. A pretty thought while sitting in a favorite chair, holding Trapline in one hand and a scotch in the other.
The activities in Glenwood Springs, its inhabitants, its local politics and its investigative police are described in realistic fashion. The lives of the immigrants – both legal and otherwise — are equally well described, without overstating the political issues involved.
There are surprises in the book. The mystery of the body in the Flat Tops is resolved, of course; and various policemen and newspaper reporters make the hunt for the murderers an intriguing one for the reader. Over the book’s almost 400 pages, the reader’s perspective on the characters changes and, more interestingly, the characters’ perspective of themselves change.
Don’t read the book while you’re hungry. The continuing descriptions of Trudy’s fresh baked scones — blueberry, cheddar — served with poached eggs and broiled tomatoes, or scrambled eggs with broccoli and goat cheese reveals the careful and tasty detail Stevens puts into his work.
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Trapline is guaranteed to snare you.
By Think Banned Thoughts
Some books need to sink in a little before you can fully appreciate them.
I finished Mark Steven’s new book Trapline about a month ago and I’ve been meaning to review it ever since, but time kept getting away from me. I’m kind of glad it did, because this a book that ages well. It’s a book with enough twists and turns and subtle nuances that letting it breathe in the back of your mind for a while helps you see the deeper brilliance of it.
Many books in the mystery genre, at least for me, are fun, quick, entertaining reads that I enjoy and then put down and rarely think of again. But Trapline is different. Trapline has staying power. And the author, Mark Stevens, is the reason.
On the surface, Trapline is a perfect genre book, combining mystery with the New West and bringing them both up to date.
Trapline is the third book in Mark’s Allison Coil mystery series.
Allow me to introduce you to Allison Coil, “this intriguing woman from the wilderness, who might have been bred from some magical concoction of tree bark and horse sweat.” She’s a backwoods hunting guide, offering her services to hunters of all shapes and sizes, even those who, “looked like they expected to hunt and hike or camp grit-free.” She’s very no-nonsense, get the job done type of gal. She embodies that old west sense of right and wrong, good and bad – there is very little room for grey in her life.
Trapline opens with a half-corpse found by Allison Coil’s first no-grit hunting party of the season. It looks like a mountain lion kill, though, “Tact suggested that you didn’t utter the deduction out loud unless you were prone to yelling ‘fire’ in a crowded theater.”
The more Allison ponders the scene, the less it feels right to her, though she can’t put her finger on why. Perhaps it’s just wishful thinking, because a mountain lion with a taste for humans would shut down hunting season faster than a city slicker tourist could yell yee-haw.
Meanwhile, down in town someone attempts to assassinate a U.S. Senate candidate after his big pro-immigration reform speech, partially delivered in perfect Spanish.
Allison is called in to consult and try to figure out where the shot could have come from, and who might have done it.
The two scenes don’t seem to have anything in common, but before long there’s no escaping that something darker is happening in Allison’s beloved Flat Tops.
Part of Mark Steven’s brilliance rests in his ability to hook us within those first few pages. He sticks his readers at the top of the roller coaster with just enough of a view to see that it’s going to be a fast-paced, twisty, turny ride – but we also know he’s not showing us the full scope.
As Mark takes us deeper into the world of Glenwood Springs and the Flat Tops, we begin to see and feel the tensions pulling at this small town. Immigrants are coming in and getting jobs. For the business owners hiring them, they’re a godsend, accepting jobs that no one else was applying for and doing them well. To others in the area, they are criminals – thieves, takers, moochers, pouring through the “tortilla curtain” in a “brown tide” of drugs and crime, stealing jobs from hardworking Americans and living on government handouts.
The tensions run deep and the fault lines are beginning to show. A candidate for U.S. Senate is just one casualty, but is the corpse from the woods another?
Within the pages of this fast paced mystery, Mark Stevens manages to show us just how few steps it takes for humanity to be stripped from “others” and how the very act of “othering” is the first slippery step down that very dangerous slope.
When Buried by the Roan came out, reviewers hailed Mark Stevens as the Carl Hiaasen of the west, and while that same environmental love runs through Trapline, I think this is the book that pulls Mark out of Hiaasen’s shadow and allows us to see Mark as so much more than just another enviro-thriller writer.
Mark is a writer whose deep love of humanity comes through on every page, in every character description, in every interaction and choice made on the page. He’s a writer not afraid to show us our ugly sides, if only so we can see for ourselves that we can do better.
I highly recommend Trapline, it’s guaranteed to snare you!
Also – Keep your eyes open for Mark’s new book, Lake of Fire, hitting stores this September!!
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