In Mineral Spirits, Sheriff Kip Edelson investigates the story behind a woman's skeleton that a young boy stumbles across on a river bank. He gets a tip that her name was Chris and he knows her death was not accidental-but little else. As he traces Mineral County residents with similar names and seeks clues to who might have killed her and why, a story evolves that includes drug dealers, a shootout, an abandoned boy, and the sheriff's own marital strains.
A Pacific Northwest Author -- Born in Forsyth, Montana, educated on life in Missoula, pining for the glassy, early morning sculling waters of Flathead.
Ten early years in Riggins, Idaho, down along the Salmon. The flavors of peaches, icy streams, forest fire smoke, and brook trout still on my tongue. Those quirky, off-beat characters wandering through my psyche most often hail from that arid canyon with its mesmerizing river.
On to Oregon's Willamette Valley. As sweet and tart as its blueberries in July--I will always be romanced by its produce. Birthplace of my son--my inspiration.
Home: West of the continental divide, north of the 45th parallel, south of the Canadian border. The Sevin Devlis, Imnaha, The Zumwalt, Hells Canyon, The River of No Return, The Cascades, The Pacific, Lake Missoula, The Columbia Gorge, Going To The Sun, Flathead, Wallowa, Joseph Canyon, The Rattlesnake, Pittsburg Landing, The Lochsa, Lookout, Mission Falls. I am a daughter of the west.
