The Big Lost by RR Carroll, with Afterword by Chris Anderson

NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARDS FINALIST. On the side of a mountain at a place known as Elkhorn Creek, dusted with an early October snow, lies the horrifically mangled body of a solitary hunter. Wolves had taken advantage of the uncommon feast and moved on. What they had left behind was a bloody mystery and scant evidence by which to solve it. Chester A. Tilghman, the sheriff of Custer County, stood looking solemnly over the scene of the hunter’s camp. As he surveyed the red mass at his feet, he dreaded the public reaction that would come when the details and circumstances of this man’s death were published in the local newspaper. The outcry, he suspected, would be swift and viral; the same reaction the Government biologists received the day they reintroduced the first pack of gray wolves to the remote Big Lost Mountains of Idaho. From that point on, the people of the region aligned themselves on one side or the other; either in favor or against the wolf. Now, with this tragic death