Snake River Secret by Maureen Meehan Aplin
Jackson Hole attorneys Mary MacIntosh and Harry Harrison search for their missing legal secretary, and the trail runs down the Class V rapids of the Snake River.
About the book
When prominent Jackson Hole attorneys Mary MacIntosh and Harry Harrison realize that their legal secretary, Lela is missing, they race to her ransacked apartment and discover a large blood stain on the carpet and a wad of cash hidden in her lingerie drawer. Frantic to find her, they agree to accompany Lela's father, Chief Ed Washakie Duran, to his Native American sweat lodge in hope that this sacred chanting ceremony might produce visions of Lela's living spirit. Chief Duran's bizarre visions expose two clues: the Snake River and Harry's son, John.
Desperate to clear John's name from any involvement in Lela's disappearance, Harry and "Mac" embark on a frantic white water search down the torrents of Class V Snake River rapids, only to discover her lifeless remains concealed in the crag of a rock outcropping.
When investigators learn that John secretly fathered a child out of wedlock with Lela, coupled with the fact that he was the last person known to have seen her alive, he is charged with her murder. Anxious about representing his own son in court, Harry allows his associate, Mac, to defend, uprooting hostility between Harry and his wife, testing his marriage to the limits.
About the author
Maureen Meehan Aplin was born and raised in Sheridan, Wyoming, a small town located northeast of Jackson, Wyoming. She received a bachelor's and master's degree in education before becoming a lawyer. She has been practicing civil litigation in California for over a decade and has completed numerous marathons, including the Boston Marathon, as well as the Hawaii Ironman World Championship Triathlon.
Always passionate about the art of communication and the craft of the written word, the gruesome murder of her legal secretary inspired her to write legal thrillers. In Geyser, the first in the series of Mary MacIntosh novels, a prominent doctor is accused of killing his business partner on the ski slopes of Jackson Hole. In the second Mary MacIntosh novel, Snake River Secret, Mac risks her life in the torrents of the Snake River to find who murdered her legal secretary.
Ms. Aplin lives with her husband and two children in Southern California where she is currently crafting her third Mary MacIntosh thriller, Powder River Poison.
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