Black Tide Rising (30 page)

The Glacier Gallows
A Cole Blackwater Mystery
by Stephen Legault

Tragedy strikes during an expedition through Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. At the base of a windswept ridge that forms the border between Canada and the United States, Cole Blackwater finds the body of his business partner and former rival Brian Marriott, a bullet hole in his head. Cole's long history of violence and his antagonistic past with the deceased put him in the spotlight of the murder investigation.

The fourth Cole Blackwater Mystery,
The Glacier Gallows
is a gritty, fast-paced mystery that will catapult the reader across North America, from Canada's Parliament Hill to Alberta's Porcupine Hills to Montana's Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Cole, his brother, Walter, and reporter Nancy Webber must race against time to learn who really wanted Brian Marriott dead and why, before Cole himself ends up in the gallows.

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(A Dan Connor mystery ; 2)
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I. Title. II. Series: McMillen, R.J., 1945– Dan Connor mystery ; 2.

PS8625.M56B53 2015 C813'.6 C2014-908214-2

Editor: Linda L. Richards
Proofreader: Vivian Sinclair
Design: Pete Kohut
Cover images: Spooky forest, Pr3t3nd3r, istockphoto.com
Jogging-away silhouette, Illustrious, istockphoto.com
Native American eagle (detail), LeshaBu, istockphoto.com

We gratefully acknowledge the financial support for our publishing activities from the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund and the Canada Council for the Arts, and from the Province of British Columbia through the British Columbia Arts Council and the Book Publishing Tax Credit.

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author's imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.