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Title: Antler Dust

Subtitle: Allison Coil Mystery, Book 1

Author: Mark Stevens

Narrator: Amy Johnson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-10-16

Publisher: Third Line Press

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Antler Dust, the first novel in the Allison Coil Mystery series, begins with a bang. Two bangs.

On the opening day of the hunting season in the Colorado Flat Tops wilderness, two men go missing. The first is a hunting guide. The second is an animal rights protester who believes his creative suicide will galvanize the animal rights movement.

Hunting guide Allison Coil hears a distant rifle shot and sees just enough through the swirling snow to believe somebody knows something - and isn't coming forward. But what exactly did she see?

Outfitter George Grumley fends off the formal investigation and works to discourage the informal and persistent inquiries by Coil. Grumley knows no limits in the effort to protect his guide service, which caters to fat-cat clients. Who needs hunting regulations when technology can produce the quickest and most thrilling hunt that money can buy?

Members Reviews:

Good story

This is another book that has been on my Kindle for a long time and I finally got around to reading it â sorry it took me so long because it was a really good story. I read a lot of mysteries and police procedurals; this book was a nice change from the big city locations and large police departments that are in the books I usually read. It takes place in the Colorado Flat Tops wilderness. Two men were killed at almost the exact same time in two different, but relatively close locations. Was one of the deaths an accident? The police are focusing on only one of the shootings. They believe the guide (Allison Coil) who said she saw and heard âsomethingâ happen at a different location is just mixed up about where she was since she was a âcity girlâ before she became a guide. While the police are busy with the death, a group known as FATE (Fighting Animal Torture Everywhere) is causing havoc while demonstrating against the hunters. Thereâs a lot going on and the author did a good job of tying everything together.

Dust Gets In Your Eyes

Compelling reading for the most parts, but the behavior of the two major protagonists would have put up red flags in real life and thus for me took the edge off a good yarn. I am sure the storyline could have either have those protagonists have more believable ways of flying under the radar or had the heroine comnnecting dots with them as fast as she did with others. Nit picking maybe but the difference between a four and a five

Good book

If all the books in the series are as good as this first one, Iâm in. I like the protagonist, Allison Coil, very much. All the characters are well drawn, the dialog believable and the plot solid. Part of the appeal is the beautiful mountain terrain which is the setting for the drama. Mark Stevens shows his fine writing skill in bringing those pictures into sharp focus for the reader as the story unfolds. A winner!

Strong female character reluctantly solves high altitude mysteries.

I thoroughly enjoyed this mystery based in a part of Colorado I hold very dear to my heart. I especially appreciated the strong female character, Allison Coil. Having grown up on the west slope, the daughter of a big game wildlife specialist and hunting in this particular area for over forty years, I congratulate Stevens for being spot on with the geography, weather, and most of the biology.