Mystery
Date Published: Aug 1, 2025
Narrator: Greg O'Donahue
Run Time: 6 hours 24 minutes
Guy Hogan and his wife planned to share their dream home in Colorado but cancer his took her from him. The mountains became his refuge and each day he hoped the next cast of his flyrod will chase away his loneliness.
Then he finds a man’s body in his favorite trout stream.
Learning why the man died becomes a quest to fill his emptiness. Hogan befriends a young woman as empty as he. Their path leads to a ring of poachers killing elk for their antlers, a break neck car chase across the twist and turns of the highest paved road in the United States, and the fury of a mountain flash flood.
But the young woman is not what she seems. Will her deadly secrets force Hogan to become the very thing he despises? The challenge is as treacherous as Trail ridge Road.
Interview with Kevin Wolf
What is your favorite part of the book?
At the midpoint of the book, there is a midnight car chase across Trailridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park. Trailridge is the highest (in elevation) continuous paved road in the US. The road rises from the river valleys through pine forest and continues across the treeless alpine tundra at elevations over 10,000 ft above sea level. I’ve driven Trailridge many times, and it was so fun to imagine the breakneck chase and weave the impressive landscape into the story.
Does your book have a lesson? Moral?
I intended the book to be entertaining. Deep inner meaning was far from my mind. But the protagonist, Guy Hogan, is a decent man. He is healing after the loss of his wife to cancer. The challenges he faces tempt him to do things contrary to how he’s lived his life. At one point, he needs to decide if the end justifies the means. Hogan makes the correct choice.
Are your characters based off real people or did they all come entirely from your imagination?
Is this the “Names have been changed to protect the innocent” question? The characters in everything I’ve written come from real people. I blend traits, personalities, and physical characteristics together to create the characters for the story. I must confess a part of me is there.
Of all the characters you have created, which is your favorite and why?
Hard question. Guy Hogan is one of the first characters I discovered. It took several years and other books before I could introduce him to readers. There is a disgraced newspaper reporter in my weird western series that I enjoy. From THE HOMEPLACE (my Tony Hillerman award winner) Chase Ford is close to the top of the list. And everyone loves Birdie Hawkins.
What character in your book are you least likely to get along with? Cadence Tait. I hate evil.
What would the main character in your book have to say about you? Guy Hogan would invite me to a stream in Rocky Mountain National Park for a day of fly fishing. We spend the day together and probably not say more than a dozen words to each other. It would be a very good day.
Do you want each book to stand on its own, or are you trying to build a body of work with connections between each book?
TRAILRIDGE is the first Guy Hogan Mystery. I plan to release the second book in the series this fall (2025) and have begun playing with ideas for book 3.
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