Deadly Reckoning

"Butte may be the most unplastic place in America." Molly Ivins "Butte was mercurial .... The wicked, wealthy, full-blooded little city welcomed me with wild enthusiasm of the most disorderly kind." Theodore Roosevelt In the town that produced Evel Knievel, a plane that attempts to land on a city street is not a surprise, unless the pilot disappears and leaves a dead man in his place. When a Cessna 180 crashes into a miner's cottage in historic uptown Butte, two men flee the plane, leaving behind a third who isn't talking. He's dead. Did the victim, a high-profile ex-con, deserve this fate? Just how did he die? And what was he doing in Butte? Chance Dawson and his sister, Mesa, who edits the weekly paper, pursue a bittersweet story that takes them from Montana to Idaho and Utah, where western individualism and retribution collide to reveal a killer.

Marian Jensen lives and writes in the Mining City, Butte, surrounded by the Rocky Mountains and the big sky of Montana. She is currently working on her second novel in the Mining City Mystery series. Learn more about her or read her blog at www.miningcitymysteries.com or contact her on Facebook at Mining City Mysteries.