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Vanishing Edge: A Novel (A National Parks Mystery) Hardcover – November 9, 2021

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For fans of Christine Carbo and Scott Graham, an ex-FBI agent is on a desperate hunt for a party of vanished campers while a killer is on the loose.

The rugged landscape of Sequoia National Park is a challenge on the best of days—but when a park ranger discovers an abandoned exclusive campsite with an empty tent and high-end technical gear scattered on the shores of an alpine lake, the wilderness takes on a sinister new hue.
 
Thirty-two-year-old Felicity Harland—a former FBI agent who left the service in the wake of a personal tragedy and has taken her skills off the grid—is brought in as chief investigator. As a federal agent with the Investigative Services Bureau, she tackles crimes that occur on National Parks lands: unexplained falls, domestic disputes, and now a possible murder case. 
 
The private company that set up the exclusive camp won’t reveal their client list, leaving Felicity with zero clues. As she struggles to find a lead, she’s also haunted by a painful past that dogs her at every step. But when she meets Ferdinand Huxley, a Navy SEAL turned park ranger, she begins to see the value in not just working with a partner, but trusting one, too.
 
The investigation takes Felicity and Hux deep into a wilderness that tests their physical limits to the extreme—and to the mean streets of Los Angeles, where they begin to learn the grisly truth behind the campers’ disappearance.
 
Bad things happen in the wilderness—and sometimes they’re not accidents.
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"An appealing crimefighting team . . . Fans of Scott Graham’s National Parks mysteries will want to check this one out."
Publishers Weekly

“A determined professional duo investigates wilderness wannabes: What’s not to like?”
Kirkus Reviews

“Superbly crafted characters and a strong sense of place, VANISHING EDGE is a first-rate mystery!”
—Marc Cameron,
New York Times bestselling author of the Jericho Quinn series and Arliss Cutter series

“When wealthy ‘glampers’ go missing deep in Sequoia National Park, bitingly witty repartee between the pair of park-service investigators assigned to the case makes Vanishing Edge a delightful debut. I can’t wait for the next!”
—Scott Graham, National Outdoor Book Award-winning author of
Canyonlands Carnage

“In
Vanishing Edge, Claire Kells delivers everything an outdoor mystery needs--vivid landscapes, a chilling plot, and engaging characters, both human and canine. An outstanding debut!”
—Margaret Mizushima, author of the award-winning Timber Creek K-9 Mysteries, including
Striking Range

“A disturbing crime scene deep in the wilderness, an assortment of peculiar suspects, and a gutsy, determined investigator combine to make this a first-class mystery.” 
—Pamela Beason, author of the Sam Westin Mysteries

“Claire Kells delivers a taut mystery set in the rugged backcountry of Sequoia National Park. With its engaging and very likeable main characters and plot with myriad twisting, intriguing clues, this book will hook readers from the start.” 
—Alice Henderson, author of
A Solitude of Wolverines

"Claire Kells delivers a taut mystery that twists and turns like a trail through the backcountry. It is a mesmerizing journey through the rugged wilderness of Sequoia National Park and a clear-eyed exploration of the impact of commercialization on our fragile wild lands."
 —Todd Robert Petersen, author of
Picnic in the Ruins

About the Author

Claire Kells is a physician and writer, whose best-selling debut adventure novel Girl Underwater was released in 2015. An avid open water swimmer and outdoor enthusiast, Claire gravitates toward stories of survival, struggle, and redemption. Her experiences as a practicing physician also play an important role in her novels, and she’s grateful for all the fascinating stories her patients have told her over the years. Vanishing Edge is the first installment in a new series featuring a partnership between an ISB agent and park ranger, who solve mysteries set in the National Park system.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Crooked Lane Books (November 9, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 164385867X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1643858678
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.29 x 0.99 x 9.55 inches
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Claire Kells is an author, a physician, and an avid open-water swimmer. She's rather obsessed with the great outdoors, even though she's scared to walk in the woods at night. Aside from wilderness adventures, her favorite things to write about are twisty plots, flawed characters, and romantic tension. She lives in Virginia with her family.

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Customers enjoyed the book's story premise and suspenseful plot. They found the characters well-developed and likable. The book was described as an exciting, enjoyable read with vivid descriptions of national parks. Readers appreciated the writing quality and found it well-written.

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Customers find the story engaging with an interesting premise and intriguing set-up. They appreciate the suspenseful writing and twists that keep them hooked until the end. The thought processes used to follow the trail and uncover the killer are commendable, and the ending is satisfactory.

"...That aside, the conclusions in the next novels are more convincing. And the characters are very well-developed and likable...." Read more

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"...I liked the MCs, the story, and the setting - I love national parks. I hope there are more books with these characters forthcoming." Read more

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Customers find the characters well-developed and likable. They enjoy the main characters, Felicity and Hux, and the story setting.

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Review: Vanishing Edge: A Novel by Claire Kells
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Review: Vanishing Edge: A Novel by Claire Kells
Just over three years ago, Felicity Harland should have died while on a camping trip with her partner Kevin. He vanished and she was left with his loss and a destroyed back. While the FBI granted her an extended medical leave, over time she read the proverbial writing on the wall, and left the agency. These days she is a recently hired Criminal Investigator for the Investigative Services Branch and deals with crimes of all types that happen in National Parks.Pulled off a case in Yosemite, she and her dog, a Shepard mix named Ollie, soon find themselves in Sequoia National Park dealing with Chief Ranger Rick Corrigan. He called her because of an abandoned campsite out in the vicinity of Precipice Lake. Ferdinand Huxley, the ranger that inspected the scene, could not find anyone. Clearly the campsite was set up by a very expensive company that caters to the wealthy. Their logo was on every item at the site. One of those companies that specializes in “luxury camping” where they set up everything so their wealthy clients do nothing but show up. While nobody knows who the clients are, and the company reps won’t say claiming privacy concerns, it is pretty clear that they are not there. A check of the area indicates that the folks are not just wandering around nearby either.Huxley and Handy team up and it is not long before they find signs that indicated at least one of the missing campers crashed through a hole in the ice on the high-altitude lake. It is April and still cold, so that person is most likely dead. Recovery of the body is going to be difficult and require a tea and resources. That still does not address what happened to at least one other person who had been at the campsite.Then there is the fact that missing wealthy campers is not the only problem in these woods. Nature itself is not the only threat in Vanishing Edge: A Novel by Claire Kells.Billed as the first book in a news series, this is an intense and complicated read. Along with plenty of backstory for the two primary characters Huxley and Hardy, that is slowly revealed, the case itself is a complicated chase that runs from the mountains of the park to the streets of Los Angeles. Much is at work here in this novel that sets an expansive and detailed ground floor for the upcoming series. This very good book is well worth your time and strongly recommended.My reading copy came from the Highland Hills Branch of the Dallas Public Library System.Kevin R. Tipple © 2022
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  • Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2024
    This is the start of my new series books to read. The reading was just fun. Looking forward to book 2
  • Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2022
    I thought the characters were well drawn in this outdoors mystery, but the author made a mistake with the main character's dog. Dogs are not allowed on trails in National Parks, and this novel is set in Sequoia. The author also makes a comment through her viewpoint character that rangers who hate dogs are sociopaths. Well, I'm not a ranger (although I spent a summer working in a National Park for the Park Service), and I don't "hate" dogs, but I do strongly dislike them. I also don't appreciate them running off- leash, chasing wildlife (the dog in this novel is often off-leash) and leaving their excrement around for hikers to step in (the dog owner in the novel never seems to pick up her pet's poop). And I really don't consider myself a sociopath. I don't think my friends or family do either, although they know about my dislike of dogs. I found this comment off-putting and insulting. And as I have said, the character was committing an illegal act by having her dog on the trails and off-leash. She was accompanied by a park ranger who liked the dog, and he never said anything about the illegal aspects of having the dog there in the first place.

    I also didn't like the conclusion of this novel. It seemed almost a cheat to the genre just to generate maximum surprise. The motive seemed weak, and the supposed bad guy just didn't seem to have it in him to commit the crimes as described.

    This novel is the author's first mystery. Better luck next time, I have to say.

    After reading the author's next two novels in this series, I added a star to my original review. I still agree with my objection to the dog running off-leash in a national park and her off-putting comment about those of us who don't love dogs, but...

    The next two novels were definitely more satisfying. The dog is still there, but its role is more official, and I don't remember it being off-leash in an area where it should have been leashed.

    That aside, the conclusions in the next novels are more convincing. And the characters are very well-developed and likable. I'll read her next one in the series. Good work, Ms. Kells.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2024
    I like all the characters in this book. I never did figure out who the bad guy was. Beautiful descriptions of our national parks. Will definitely read the next novel. Loved it v
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  • Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2023
    Best book I have read in ages. Character driven, fascinating plot and such vivid descriptions I thought I was there .
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  • Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2023
    I rarely rate a fiction book with 4 stars. This National Park mystery is placed around Sequoia and, having been there (not as a backpacker) many times, I really enjoyed the descriptions of the area. The mystery was better than ok. I liked the major characters in the story and how they were depicted. It was not clear who the killer was until near the end. I just purchased #2 that is placed in Alaska. It's unusual for me to buy a ebook before it is offered at a lower price but I did for this one.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2024
    I bought this book on sale at Amazon, never having heard of the author or the series before. Therefore I was unexpectedly surprised at how well written and likeable it was. My reason for the moderate rating is that:
    1) the mystery became boring; even at 80% read, there were nothing but dead-end leads, and the book was heading into "unlike-able" range, and
    2) Felicity, the main character, was too meek and amenable at times, which led her to the above situation, i.e., not really solving the crime.

    But the ending was pretty good. And I do look forward to the next installment.
  • Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2023
    I don't care for many first-person narratives, but this book was one of the good ones. I liked the MCs, the story, and the setting - I love national parks. I hope there are more books with these characters forthcoming.
  • Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2023
    I'm devouring her books. Women run the show in all of them and are more than competent to handle themselves in the wild. Stories are fascinating.

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    Reviewed in Australia on June 4, 2023
    Well I rather enjoyed the book, surprise ending and all, some say the dog can’t go into the national parks well i say to them its fiction and a little creative writing is the usual thing. The book flowed well and kept you wondering what was going to happen. Good characters a great dog what more can you ask for.