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Award-winning author Cary J. Griffith grew up among the woods, fields, and emerald waters of eastern Iowa. His childhood fostered a lifelong love of wild places. He earned a B.A. in English from the University of Iowa and an M.A. in library science from the University of Minnesota. Griffith's books explore the natural world. In nonfiction, he covers the borderlands between civilization and wild places. 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 both genres, readers are likely to learn something about our relationship to the natural world and the creatures who inhabit it. ""I was 14 the first time I visited the lakes and boreal forests of northeastern Minnesota,"" says Griffith, ""and its beauty struck me."" Griffith is also the author ofWolf Kill, Gunflint Burning, Lost in the Wild, andOpening Goliath. He lives with his family in a suburb of Minnesota's Twin Cities.
A deadly threat from the wild comes far too close for comfort when an urban bicyclist is found mauled to death by a cougar. In this second book in the Sam Rivers mystery series, Cary Griffith takes this U.S. Fish and Wildlife special agent on a hair-raising hunt to find the cougar-and the truth. Mixing deep knowledge of the natural world with the twists and turns of the best suspense novels, Cougar Claw is a thoughtful and thrilling story. -Mary Logue, author of the Claire Watkins mysteries and The STREEL
