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When wildfire rips through California’s Gold Country, something even more dangerous moves in the smoke.
A serial killer is hunting.
Crime reporter Eleanor Wooley is determined to uncover the truth before the beloved Rodeo Queen becomes the next victim. But as flames consume the hills and fear grips the community, the search for answers turns personal—and perilous.
With the help of Anishinaabe guide Leonard Parker, Eleanor navigates a landscape where land and people are bound together by history, resilience, and fire. What they uncover will test loyalty, courage, and the fragile hope of renewal rising from the ashes.
Taut, atmospheric, and rich with sense of place, Three Marys is a gripping mystery about the stories we tell, the secrets we keep, and the strength it takes to face both.
“Robin Somers makes the Sierra foothills as compelling and full of oh-so-human nature as C.J. Box's Wyoming or Tana French's western Ireland. It's that good.”
— Bruce Kelley,Editor-in-Chief, San Francisco Magazine & Reader’s Digest
“...the smell of sage and the sound of snowmelt tumbling over rocks remain in the senses long after the story is done. ”
—Kate Woodworth, author of Little Great Island and Racing Into the Dark
About the Author
Robin Somers is the author of Beet Fields, a murder mystery. A founding member of the Coastal Cruisers chapter of Sisters in Crime, she’s an Emerita Lecturer in writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Robin lived in the rural foothill town of Sonora, California, in the nape of the Sierra Nevada, where she kept her horse and worked as a crime reporter for the local newspaper, an editor for the United States Forest Service, and an English teacher. In 2002, she returned to her home near the beach in Santa Cruz, California, where she lives with her husband and their Havanese, Buster. She is a passionate advocate for wild horses.
Also in the Wild Horses Mystery Series
Eleven Stolen Horses: A Wild Horses Mystery
by Robin Somers
News reporter Eleanor Wooley is starting her life over in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada but when her new best friend suddenly disappears, she gives it all up in pursuit of the clues and soon finds herself in grave danger.
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