Deadly Trespass A Mystery In Maine Volume 1 Sandra D Neily Books
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Winner Mystery Writers of America McCloy Award. National finalist Women’s Fiction Writers Association “Rising Star” contest.
Cassandra Patton Conover is about to become an outlaw. Searching for her wayward dog in Maine’s dense woods, she finds her best friend Shannon crushed under a tree. Then she finds tracks larger than any animal she knows and a mystery only wild animals can help her solve.
Before she can absorb the loss of her friend, Patton is hired to guide a surly reporter who suspects extinct wolves have returned to Maine, but the forest has too many agendas. A billionaire hopes wolves will become a save-the-forest strategy. A timber company plans to exterminate the pack. A game warden loyal to his Penobscot tribe, his attraction to Patton, and his law enforcement life, has too many tough choices, and a black ops mercenary rips open Patton’s wounded life so he can aim her at the wolves.
When gold wolf eyes issue a challenge at her tent door, Patton is drawn deeper into Shannon’s mysterious murder and the wolves’ fate. To find her friend’s killer, she must find and trust the pack. To save her dog, the wolves, and her own life, she must step outside the law, sacrifice her career, and embrace a wild world.
Deadly Trespass A Mystery In Maine Volume 1 Sandra D Neily Books
Buckle up for a no-holds-barred, crash course on Maine. Deadly Trespass may be a work of fiction, but author Sandra Neily’s hard-earned first-hand knowledge of the state drives the tale.Both personally and professionally, Cassandra Patton Conover, the protagonist in Neily’s defiant debut mystery, challenges the world to take her on—person by person, group by group. In her fifties, Patton, as she prefers to be called, keeps painful memories (emotionally abusive marriage, Maine state lobbying career roadblocks) to herself as she dares others, friendly or hostile, to prove themselves. Patton may not be an easy presence, but she’s fully present, and the people who love her depend on her for that.
As the book opens, Patton justifies trespassing across a wealthy landowner’s acreage in order to reach a public-property river to go fishing with her Labrador retriever. The dog, however, quickly disappears, on the scent of something both unusual and well known. He has found the dead body of Patton’s best friend, Shannon Angeles.
Put on your safety goggles and start your engine. This author’s commitment to strong verbs and deep emotions (which she has worked to instill in me as a writing buddy) will propel you across the wildest of Maine’s terrain and into its coldest waters—in search of whispered wolves, possible murderers, odd bedfellows, greedy sons of bitches, and reasons for it all. Patton’s imagined conversations with animals, love for her daughter, and her own surprise at romantic feelings for her ex-husband’s best friend squash the isolation she seriously flirts with and tries to inflict on others.
Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Ellen Glasgow once said, “[E]very great novel has broken many conventions. The greatest of all novels defies every formula.” While not defying every formula, there’s nothing formulaic about author Neily’s multilayered mystery that stunned this reader with graphic scenes of beauty and mayhem while immersing me (a mostly city gal) in Maine’s environment—natural and political.
At the start of this review, I used the word “defiant” to describe this eco mystery. Why? For one thing, it defies the reader to experience not only the beauty in our senses but also the squalor. Of her friend’s mangled body, Patton recalls, “Gray, pink-tinged fluid dripped from one ear, and one green eye stared at me the way she always stared at me when I didn’t have answers.” Also defiant is the prodding way the author gets her points across: “In two months ticks could suck ten gallons of blood from a moose calf and tilt its fate toward death… [I] tried to feel grateful for all species—even lowlife species like reporters and ticks.” Defiant is Patton herself, spitting back the pain that smacks her even as she perceives a dark humor in it.
In welcoming you to author Sandra Neily’s world, I must quote one of my favorite early paragraphs, when Patton is in a vehicle that has a dead moose tied to its roof: “Soft moose muzzle brushed my lips when I leaned into the truck’s cab. I pressed my weight into the animal’s neck, closed my eyes, and imagined him alive. Four hours ago he’d been knee deep in Tomhegan Bog, flesh rippling with urgency, nostrils squeezed back to suck in female-scented air. He must have heard the hunters stop and open their doors, but maybe a cow grazed upwind. While he swung his nose toward her, men stepped into the road and raised their rifles.”
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Deadly Trespass A Mystery In Maine Volume 1 Sandra D Neily Books Reviews
Deadly Trespass by Sandra Neily, this is a book where the plot takes place in the woods of Maine, is the story of Cassandra a girl that lost her dog in the forest, she starts looking for the dog and she finds her friend death, looks like an accident, a tree has fallen on her, but soon she learn that it was more than that. She gets in the middle of vested interests and puts her life in danger. The plot takes the time to tell us how she used to live with her parents, the things she didn’t like about them and what she did, and this is in part to let us know that she was in touch with hunting, even when it was a man thing to do, but is important to follow the plot. The book is well written and has a good pace, the plot is written to be a mystery book but also has some unreal things, like wishful thinking, or that was the way it made me feel, like a little weird scenarios, but perfectly included in the tale, the way clues are presented and manage by Cassandra It's how the story unfolds, no doubt is an interesting read
I have to say that this book is one of the hardest (in a good way) books that I have ever read in all possible ways. The mystery aspect was very on-point. As I went through the pages, I found myself intrigued and totally immersed. I was eager to find out the mystery behind Cassandra’s missing dog and her dead friend. It is rare for me to come across books as intriguing as this.
And because the author has an easy writing style, I did enjoy it. I don’t normally read mystery books with heavy and strong choices of words so this definitely sealed the deal for me. The events were interesting enough to make me feel invested in the story. And there were twists that raise the hairs on my skin. I have to applaud the author for being able to come up with a unique mystery book like this. There were some little imperfections when it comes to the descriptions of the details, though, but as a whole, it was a book that mystery lovers will definitely enjoy.
Wolves are always a controversial issue, particularly in the State of Maine. And that’s one of the one of the central themes of this suspense novel set in the wilds of northern Maine. Knowing the devastating effect they would have on two of Maine’s economic pillars, hunting and logging, sportsmen and foresters stand vehemently opposed to any efforts aimed at re-introducing wolves to their State. And the Governor and State Legislature have established statutory roadblocks toward that end. Meanwhile, environmentalists who feel wolves could represent an alternate source of tourist-related income and are a means to help restore the State’s natural wildness in the face of rampant cutting have plans of their own. When she discovers the lifeless body of her best friend, perished under suspicious circumstances, protagonist Cassandra Patton Conover finds herself entangled in a web of intrigue that somehow connects all these entities. And despite warnings from those who care for her, she insists on plucking the strings in hopes of flushing the deadly spiders from their lair.
The author has a unique writing style. It took me several paragraphs to adapt but once I became familiar with it, the reading flowed seamlessly, and the plot become increasingly more engaging. Extensive character development adds another dimension, making the reader feel at least familiar with most characters and almost intimate with key ones. The author’s descriptions of surroundings transcend the senses so the reader can almost see, smell and hear the action.
Neilly clearly did her research on not just the natural but also the political environment as her descriptions of both are quire accurate, lending more credibility and education to the story.
In fact, Mainers might even recognize some of the fictitious characters. The author represents both sides objectively, for the most part, though a slight bias becomes clearer as the book progresses. But hey, it’s a novel, intended for our entertainment, and I found it quite entertaining.
Buckle up for a no-holds-barred, crash course on Maine. Deadly Trespass may be a work of fiction, but author Sandra Neily’s hard-earned first-hand knowledge of the state drives the tale.
Both personally and professionally, Cassandra Patton Conover, the protagonist in Neily’s defiant debut mystery, challenges the world to take her on—person by person, group by group. In her fifties, Patton, as she prefers to be called, keeps painful memories (emotionally abusive marriage, Maine state lobbying career roadblocks) to herself as she dares others, friendly or hostile, to prove themselves. Patton may not be an easy presence, but she’s fully present, and the people who love her depend on her for that.
As the book opens, Patton justifies trespassing across a wealthy landowner’s acreage in order to reach a public-property river to go fishing with her Labrador retriever. The dog, however, quickly disappears, on the scent of something both unusual and well known. He has found the dead body of Patton’s best friend, Shannon Angeles.
Put on your safety goggles and start your engine. This author’s commitment to strong verbs and deep emotions (which she has worked to instill in me as a writing buddy) will propel you across the wildest of Maine’s terrain and into its coldest waters—in search of whispered wolves, possible murderers, odd bedfellows, greedy sons of bitches, and reasons for it all. Patton’s imagined conversations with animals, love for her daughter, and her own surprise at romantic feelings for her ex-husband’s best friend squash the isolation she seriously flirts with and tries to inflict on others.
Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Ellen Glasgow once said, “[E]very great novel has broken many conventions. The greatest of all novels defies every formula.” While not defying every formula, there’s nothing formulaic about author Neily’s multilayered mystery that stunned this reader with graphic scenes of beauty and mayhem while immersing me (a mostly city gal) in Maine’s environment—natural and political.
At the start of this review, I used the word “defiant” to describe this eco mystery. Why? For one thing, it defies the reader to experience not only the beauty in our senses but also the squalor. Of her friend’s mangled body, Patton recalls, “Gray, pink-tinged fluid dripped from one ear, and one green eye stared at me the way she always stared at me when I didn’t have answers.” Also defiant is the prodding way the author gets her points across “In two months ticks could suck ten gallons of blood from a moose calf and tilt its fate toward death… [I] tried to feel grateful for all species—even lowlife species like reporters and ticks.” Defiant is Patton herself, spitting back the pain that smacks her even as she perceives a dark humor in it.
In welcoming you to author Sandra Neily’s world, I must quote one of my favorite early paragraphs, when Patton is in a vehicle that has a dead moose tied to its roof “Soft moose muzzle brushed my lips when I leaned into the truck’s cab. I pressed my weight into the animal’s neck, closed my eyes, and imagined him alive. Four hours ago he’d been knee deep in Tomhegan Bog, flesh rippling with urgency, nostrils squeezed back to suck in female-scented air. He must have heard the hunters stop and open their doors, but maybe a cow grazed upwind. While he swung his nose toward her, men stepped into the road and raised their rifles.”
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