Stone Cold Blooded

by Catherine Dilts

A small-town Colorado rock shop owner—and amateur sleuth—has a new case involving explosions, aliens, a dinosaur, and murder.

Morgan Iverson's reclusive survivalist neighbor is blown to bits. The police claim he must have stumbled into his own booby trap, but his granddaughter believes he was murdered and asks Morgan and newspaperman Kurt Willard to find proof. After the explosions, mysterious white creatures make elusive appearances near the rock shop, drawing a summertime invasion of true believers hoping to prove the existence of aliens. Meanwhile, Morgan learns there may be more to her Triceratops fossil than just the brow horn, and finding the rest of the dinosaur may solve the mystery of her neighbor's demise.

370 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 7, 2023

About the author

Catherine Dilts is the author of the Rose Creek and the Rock Shop mystery series, and several installments in various Annie’s Fiction series, for a total of twelve traditionally published novels. Her short stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine and the Pikes Peak Writers anthology. After a career in environmental compliance for a global corporation, Catherine now gets to write fiction full time. Most of her published works have a cozy mystery flavor. She is stepping into Indy publishing this year with her co-author daughter Merida Bass and the YA science fiction Tapestry Tales series.
https://www.catherinedilts.com/