Muddy Waters

A Whodunit Award Winner

“Candy Carter writes with a sure hand, based on a firsthand knowledge of wildernesses, deserts, and far-flung mountains. Her character is an iconic loner, a man you’ll want to follow as he traipses along dangerous trails. Sign me on to read a sequel ….”
- Byron McCafferty, Seattle Book Journal

A former park ranger gives us an exciting outdoor mystery featuring a new sleuth, Henry “Whispering” Smith. Handy with a six-shooter, Henry is a range detective for the Colorado Plateau Cattlemen’s Association. The action begins when he apprehends an old acquaintance moving cows that belong to someone else. Shots ring out from the bushes and bullets fly. In the aftermath Henry is faced with arresting an old friend who’d just saved his life. We travel with Whispering Smith from Colorado Plateau to the North Carolina mountains in this fresh, new mystery from an “author of great promise.”

Candace J. Carter is a South Carolina-based writer. She received a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Iowa State University following military service. She spent much of her professional career with the U.S. Department of the Interior, and has worked with several threatened and endangered species in both Colorado and Florida, including the black-footed ferret, Florida scrub-jay, and four species of sea turtles. She is retired from the National Park Service. Not only a runner-up in the annual Whodunit mystery writing competition, this book was also First Place Winner in the prestigious Carrie McCray Memorial Literary Awards.