BOTB Semifinalist - Disappearance Creek, by R. J. Luce

Disappearance Creek, by R.J. Luce

Conducting wildlife surveys in a remote mountain wilderness east of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, wildlife biologist Whip Sawtell uncovers a series of mysterious disappearances. A pack of northern gray wolves vanished, then a small plane sent out by the government to look for the pack crashed without a trace. An elk hunter
disappeared in the same area.

Sawtell follows the hunter’s trail looking for his body, but instead finds a dead wolf, one shot from an airplane. Before Sawtell can leave the area a sniper pins him down behind a tree miles from a road. His ex-girlfriend, wolf biologist Cat Bonner, tracks Sawtell into the wilderness before he connects the dots.


R.J. Luce was a wildlife biologist in Wyoming for three decades. He worked on deer, elk, pronghorn, moose, and bat management; and several endangered species recovery programs. He has traveled the Wyoming backcountry extensively: cross-country skiing, backpacking, and snowshoeing; and explored hundreds of caves and abandoned mines. Mr. Luce has authored a number of technical wildlife publications, supplied wildlife photographs for several books, and written wildlife-related articles for outdoor magazines. Disappearance Creek is his first outdoor mystery novel. He now divides his time between Lander, Wyoming; and Sierra Vista and Bisbee, Arizona.

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