Blood Mountain

by Alisa Lynn Valdés

Overview

New Mexico game warden Jodi Luna disrupts a murderous wilderness adventure in this thrilling second installment from Alisa Lynn Valdés, New York Times bestselling author of The Dirty Girls Social Club.

Former poetry professor Jodi Luna hasn’t quite adjusted to life as a game warden. Her boss thinks she’s better with animals than humans, and the man she’s seeing wants a real relationship. Still reeling from her husband’s death, Jodi has to admit that she keeps people at a distance.

After her new friend, wealthy actress Claudia Evans, gathers with family members in the New Mexico wilderness, Jodi gets some unsettling news—that Claudia’s brother-in-law is missing. Eager to help, Jodi ventures into the wild to investigate, only to be thwarted by a blizzard that leaves the entire group stranded at a fishing lodge.

Jodi is no stranger to extreme weather, but when these reluctant adventurers start turning up mauled around the snowed-in lodge, Jodi suspects the worst: this was no bear. This was murder.

And inside the snowy confines of this rustic hideaway, everyone is fair game…

…for a killer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781662507137
Publisher:	Amazon Publishing
Publication date:	04/16/2024
Series:	Jodi Luna , #2
Pages:	334
Product dimensions:	5.38(w) x 8.38(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Alisa Lynn Valdés is an award-winning print and broadcast journalist and a former staff writer for both the Los Angeles Times and the Boston Globe. With more than one million books in print in eleven languages, she was included on Time magazine’s list of “25 Most Influential Hispanics in America” and was a Latina magazine woman of the year as well as an Entertainment Weekly breakout literary star. She is the author of many novels, including Playing with Boys and The Husband Habit. Alisa divides her time between New Mexico and Los Angeles.

Editorial Reviews

Lots of background enriches the plot…” —Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

2024-01-20
A wealthy family’s elk hunt turns into something far more dangerous, forcing a newly minted game warden to struggle to keep everyone safe.

New Mexico game warden Jodi Luna isn’t even out of her probationary period when she begins to get warnings from her boss about being too animal-friendly, as if game wardens should be more hunter-friendly. Jodi, a writer in an earlier life, won’t let the criticism derail her second career. She’s old enough to have a sense of self and justice, and keeping order runs in her family. Just ask her oldest, Ashley Romero. Though she didn’t even know that they were related until recently, Ashley, as the Rio Truchas sheriff, must interact a good deal with Jodi in her role as game warden as they try to navigate their complex relationship. Jodi’s younger daughter, Mila Livingston, who’s equally justice-minded, is a member of the Gato Montes School’s Wildlife and Conservation Club, where she met her latest boyfriend, Sterling Evans. Sterling’s family is different from other local families. They have bottomless wealth and the ability to hire Jodi to facilitate a weekend elk hunt in the Sangre de Jesus mountains. Jodi isn’t eager to spend the weekend with the uber-wealthy and their entitled kin, some of whom don’t take a shine to a woman in a position of authority. But since she’s brought Mila with her, she has some good company, too. What happens next involves perils more urgent than cultural clashes. Mila, Jodi, and the whole Evans clan find themselves in the crosshairs of a dangerous killer, or killers, during a dangerous freeze and power outage.

Lots of background enriches the plot but slows the forward motion.

Kirkus Reviews