GR Stahl - Deception at the Diamond D Ranch
Category: Events Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Tuesday, May 10, 2022 7 - 8pm
Location
Rediscovered Books - Boise
180 N 8th St
Details
Best known for Paddling, author GR Stahl has released a debut fast paced mystery, Deception at the Diamond D Ranch. GR will be joining us for a virtual conversation with one of our booksellers! He will also be joining us in person for a book signing on Thursday, 5/12, 4 - 5:30 p.m. at our downtown Boise location and Saturday, 5/14, 1 - 2:30 p.m at our downtown Caldwell location.
Ranger Cade Rigens is working to establish the nation’s newest national park in one of the most rugged and remote parts of the American West. On the cusp of a history-making public hearing, the park’s most vocal opponent comes to Cade with news about a young man who went missing doing research in the mountains.
Venturing into the wilderness with a political adversary as his guide is the least of Cade’s problems. As he struggles to uncover what happened, he gets the attention of militant activists who stymie his progress and threaten his safety. As he gets close to unraveling it all, he discovers at the center a mystery as old as the region’s settlement.
Deception at the Diamond D Ranch is grounded in present-day political tensions about federal land in the West. It also draws on the story and heritage of Basques who moved to the West at the turn of the twentieth century to work as miners and sheep herders. Basque language, dance, traditions and stories dating to 6000 BC are thriving in the Intermountain West, and the central riddle in Deception at the Diamond D Ranch hinges on the lore and legends of this vibrant and influential heritage.
Deception at the Diamond D Ranch is set against the backdrop of the West’s most unsung and stunning scenery, as well as the real tensions that exist between rural westerners, new westerners, and the lower forty-eight states’ largest concentration of publicly owned land.
