He lives with his family in a suburb of Minnesota’s Twin Cities.5303 Steeplechase Rd, Fredericksbrg, VA 22407 Griffith is also the author of Gunflint Burning, Lost in the Wild, and Opening Goliath. “I was 14 the first time I visited the lakes and boreal forests of northeastern Minnesota,” says Griffith, “and its beauty struck me.” In both genres, readers are likely to learn something about our relationship to the natural world and the creatures who inhabit it. In fiction, he focuses on the ways some people use flora and fauna to commit crimes, while others with more reverence and understanding of the natural world leverage their knowledge to bring criminals to justice. In nonfiction, he covers the borderlands between civilization and wild places. Griffith’s books explore the natural world. in library science from the University of Minnesota. in English from the University of Iowa and an M.A. His childhood fostered a lifelong love of wild places. Griffith grew up among the woods, fields, and emerald waters of eastern Iowa. Griffith introduces readers to Sam Rivers, the predator’s predator, and weaves a masterful tale of danger and suspense in the far north.Īward-winning author Cary J. In Wolf Kill, natural history writer Cary J. His knowledge of frigid winters, wolves, and wilderness will be put to the test, as he tries to solve the case-and stay alive. It is a case unlike any he’s worked before. With the help of alluring reporter Diane Talbott, Rivers must unravel the wolf kill and learn what really happened to his father-a man Rivers has hated for most of his life. The events lead the special agent to a series of clues that could change everything he knows-or thinks he knows-about the town, his family, and himself. His suspicions are heightened after a bizarre wolf attack on local livestock.

Rivers breaks into his childhood home during a howling winter storm and discovers something sinister.

His experiences have given him a penchant for understanding predators-a skill he’ll need, now, more than ever.Īfter his father’s mysterious death, Rivers is lured back to his hometown of Defiance, in northern Minnesota, to fulfill his mother’s dying wish. He found solace in nature and built a respected career as a special agent for the U.S.

Rivers left the family farm some 20 years ago. In this outdoors thriller, the investigation of a bizarre wolf attack leads to evidence of murder, conspiracy, and shocking family secrets.Ī decades-old promise haunts Sam Rivers, but the wildlife biologist refuses to return home-not with his abusive and estranged father still there. Special agent Sam Rivers’ investigation of a bizarre wolf attack leads to evidence of murder, conspiracy, and shocking family secrets in this wildlife-themed thriller.

Wolves by Cary J. Griffith