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“An engrossing whodunnit with turns and switchbacks like a trail leading deep into Glacier National Park’s grizzly-filled backcountry. Baited is a mystery in which the only things more powerful and unpredictable than nature expressing itself via fire, flood, and apex predator are the emotions and motivations of a gritty collection of characters. “Glacier’s a powerful place,” a ranger cop comments, “…it culls the riffraff.” With prose sharp enough to make you feel the pine needles, Colleen O’Brien evokes what is so forebodingly captivating about one of Montana’s most dramatic landscapes. For lovers of the state’s literary forebearers, imagine Ivan Doig – if he wrote noir.”

—Nate Schweber author of This America of Ours: Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild