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Mystery

Date Published: February 18, 2026

Narrator: Greg O'Donahue

Run time: 5 hours 20 minutes.

EARLY SNOW

Odyssey Pruit paints pictures of the ghosts and spirits she saw in the halls of an old hotel where she worked ten years before. GUY HOGAN doesn’t believe in ghosts. Hogan is hired to guard Odyssey’s pictures for her first art show in the same old hotel. When an early blizzard closes the roads, knocks out the power and telephone, Hogan is trapped in the hotel with Odyssey’s quirky fans. When imps and ghouls make their presence known, Hogan questions his doubts, and the answer could be murder.

Interview

What is the hardest part of writing your books?

It seems time is a constant adversary. I’ve yet to conquer the discipline of sitting down and producing words, then sentences, then paragraphs that become pages. And I'm always thinking of the next thing(s) I want to write

What are your most played songs?

Amarillo by Morning- George Strait

Come Monday- Jimmy Buffett

The Road Goes on Forever- Robert Earl Keen

How Great Thou Art-Carrie Underwood

Do you have critique partners or beta readers?

I found a critique group early. It helped to share my work with others and listen to their comments, advice, and feedback. I facilitate a weekly Zoom writers’ group meeting. Besides the feedback, I value the accountability to others. There is a certain intimacy that comes from sharing your writing and that has brought so many valued friends.

What book are you reading now?

I just finished CJ Box’s newest, CROSSROADS. I’ve read everything of his. Last night I read the first chapters of John Grisham's CAMINO WINDS. And one of James Scott Bell’s craft books, WRITE YOUR NOVEL FROM THE MIDDLE, is on my desk.

How did you start your writing career?

I can point to the exact moment I committed to becoming an author. I was in the airport in Detroit, headed home after a week of work. It was shortly after 911. In the time when we never knew if we would be in security lines for two hours or breeze through in ten minutes. The lines were short, and I was on the concourse waiting for a flight home. I had finished a forgettable paperback, couldn’t find anything interesting on the bookshelf in the airport shops, so I opened my laptop and typed out the opening lines of what I was sure would be an international best-seller and coming blockbuster movie. I still remember the opening line: “She was the kind of woman men noticed and he was being paid to notice.” It got worse after that. I know. I read it.

Tell us about your next release.

I’m going international. In 2026, ek-2 Publishing will release two books from my backlist in German. I’m excited about that, and we’re negotiating for other titles. I’m planning on publishing COMMANCHE COUNTY, the sequel to the Tony Hillerman Award Winner, this summer.

 

 

 Kevin Wolf is an award-winning Mystery and Western author. His books include Trailridge (2024), The Homeplace, winner of the 2015 Tony Hillerman Prize and the 2016 Strand Critics Award finalist for Best Debut Mystery. His short story Belthanger received the 2021 Spur Award for Best Short Fiction and his novel, The Bootheel was a 2024 Peacemaker Award finalist.

The legends and landscape of the West are evident in everything he writes. His newest novel, Trailridge, is set against the grandeur of Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park and the 1982 Lawn Lake Flood. Those who visit Rocky often or have chosen the national park for their once-in-a-lifetime destination will recognize the mountains, valleys, rivers, and the twists and turns of Trailridge as this story races to its climax.

In The Homeplace, a schoolboy hero returns after sixteen years to solve a murder in a windswept, dying town on the eastern plains of Colorado. In his short story Belthanger, readers are given a glimpse of a 1950s small town, soon to be bypassed by the new Interstate Highway System, and the drama that unfolds on the town’s darkened streets one night. The BootHeel is a coming-of-age tale of a teenage orphan and an aging gunman as they follow a treasure map into Mexico as the nineteenth century draws to its end.

Kevin Wolf is a member of Western Writers of America, Mystery Writers of America, and serves as Vice President of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers. He facilitates a weekly critique group for other writers. The great-grandson of Colorado homesteaders, he enjoys fly fishing, old Winchesters, and almost every 1950’s Western movie. He lives in Estes Park, CO with his loving and patient wife.

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