Telluride Smile Author:Raymond H. Ring Strange things are happening in Telluride, Colorado. Martin Rivers has run off into the San Juan Mountains outside town, caught up in a fantasy, living as a nineteenth-century mountain man and arousing the forces of law and order against him. The local think tank, all glitz and flash on the outside, is rotten at the core and no one w... more »ants to talk about it. And even in a town where partying is the dominant lifestyle, the nightlife has reached an unacceptable level of nastiness.
Enter Henry Dyer, a fiftyish loner and former game and fish agent turned detective who has retreated to a small ranch in the Arizona desert. Dyer is hired by Martin River's parents to locate their son and bring him home before anyone gets hurt. But along the way people do get hurt. Bones are broken and so are hearts. Ambitions are thwarted and dreams are crushed.
The Mountain Man's trail through wintry high country leads Dyer into a deeper mystery, one involving blackmail, a string of murders, and the stormy love affair between people and the land, as well as Dyer's own stormy love affair with Whitley, the local lawyer.« less