Alix Thorssen

Whoever killed Shiloh Merkin hated her and wanted her dead. Her brother-in-law, Wade, is accused of the murder. An Indian activist and zealous defender of Native Montana lands, despised by Shiloh's New Age women's group, his knife appears to be the murder weapon. But Alix Thorssen, art dealer and forgery expert, knows there is no artistry in slashing a woman's throat, and believes Wade isn't the killer.

Art expert Alix Thorssen is asked to appraise the charred ruins of a friend's local gallery. The tragedy doubles when artist Ray Thornton's body is found among the debris. The death is ruled a suicide; the fire, arson. Case closed. But not for Alix, who doesn't believe the body was Thornton's.

Hank was found standing over the body of visiting Norwegian artist Glasius Dokken. When Hank won't say a word in his own defense, it falls to his step-daughter, Alix Thorssen, to clear him and uncover who actually sent Dokken, the painter of myths, to Valhalla.

When the gray wolf was reintroduced to the US through Yellowstone National Park, it restored a balance of power among the wildlife in our most cherished national park and all across the West. Here is a story of one wolf, a grizzled "blue" wolf, modeled after one of the first to be set free. Alix Thorssen is an art dealer in Jackson Hole. When a reclusive artist she's courting for a big charity auction asks her to look into the long-ago murder of her son, she plunges deep into a feud between wildlife activists, environmentalists, and ranchers.