Blood at Crowpass Cabin
(2026)(The fourth book in the Hartfall County Sheriff Mystery series)
A novel by Claire Bessey
Sheriff Naomi Hart has learned that Hartfall County does not simply hide its secrets. It removes them from maps, deletes them from records, and waits for weather, fear, and time to finish the job.
After the murders tied to Hartfall Ridge, Saint Orla’s Home, and Godwick House, Naomi’s next lead points toward Crowpass Cabin, a remote mountain shelter that appears in old rescue files but has vanished from current county records. To most people, Crowpass is just a dangerous winter route and a half-forgotten cabin in the mountains. To Naomi, it is another erased room in the county’s long history of altered names, missing children, false reports, and buried crimes.
Then two hikers go missing near Crowpass.
Gavin Rowe and Piper Ash came to Hartfall County to film a documentary about the cabin the county forgot. Gavin wanted a story big enough to sell. Piper wanted proof strong enough to survive him. Their last known trail leads into a storm, and what begins as a search-and-rescue operation quickly turns into a criminal investigation.
A broken radio battery. Blood in the snow. A missing SD card. An axe at the cabin. Old scratches in a crawlspace where children carved their names. Every clue points toward Crowpass as more than a rescue shelter. It was a place where adults made decisions about children whose lives had already been stolen by paperwork.
With Deputy Rowan Voss, search dog Atlas, and Silas Creed, Naomi must push through a brutal snowstorm, hostile terrain, and county pressure to find Piper before the mountain buries the truth. But Crowpass is tied to Drummond Ridge Ranch, the false identity of Silas’s missing brother Daniel, and the final trail Naomi’s mother was following before her death.
Someone knows what Gavin and Piper found.
And someone is willing to kill to make sure Crowpass stays forgotten.
Blood at Crowpass Cabin is an atmospheric snowbound mountain sheriff mystery with missing hikers, murder, old county records, a loyal search dog, cold-case suspense, rugged Montana terrain, and a strong female sheriff who refuses to let the past disappear under fresh snow.
Perfect for readers who enjoy Montana crime fiction, small-town sheriff mysteries, clean murder mysteries, search-and-rescue suspense, cold-case investigations, female sheriff protagonists, search dog mysteries, winter mountain thrillers, and crime series built around dark family secrets.
Genre: Mystery
After the murders tied to Hartfall Ridge, Saint Orla’s Home, and Godwick House, Naomi’s next lead points toward Crowpass Cabin, a remote mountain shelter that appears in old rescue files but has vanished from current county records. To most people, Crowpass is just a dangerous winter route and a half-forgotten cabin in the mountains. To Naomi, it is another erased room in the county’s long history of altered names, missing children, false reports, and buried crimes.
Then two hikers go missing near Crowpass.
Gavin Rowe and Piper Ash came to Hartfall County to film a documentary about the cabin the county forgot. Gavin wanted a story big enough to sell. Piper wanted proof strong enough to survive him. Their last known trail leads into a storm, and what begins as a search-and-rescue operation quickly turns into a criminal investigation.
A broken radio battery. Blood in the snow. A missing SD card. An axe at the cabin. Old scratches in a crawlspace where children carved their names. Every clue points toward Crowpass as more than a rescue shelter. It was a place where adults made decisions about children whose lives had already been stolen by paperwork.
With Deputy Rowan Voss, search dog Atlas, and Silas Creed, Naomi must push through a brutal snowstorm, hostile terrain, and county pressure to find Piper before the mountain buries the truth. But Crowpass is tied to Drummond Ridge Ranch, the false identity of Silas’s missing brother Daniel, and the final trail Naomi’s mother was following before her death.
Someone knows what Gavin and Piper found.
And someone is willing to kill to make sure Crowpass stays forgotten.
Blood at Crowpass Cabin is an atmospheric snowbound mountain sheriff mystery with missing hikers, murder, old county records, a loyal search dog, cold-case suspense, rugged Montana terrain, and a strong female sheriff who refuses to let the past disappear under fresh snow.
Perfect for readers who enjoy Montana crime fiction, small-town sheriff mysteries, clean murder mysteries, search-and-rescue suspense, cold-case investigations, female sheriff protagonists, search dog mysteries, winter mountain thrillers, and crime series built around dark family secrets.
Genre: Mystery
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