Stone Fly: A Murder Mystery on the High Desert

by Rod Collins

What is the connection between a dead sailor in Washington State and the Lake County, Oregon, murder of an identified John Doe? The more information that turns up, the worse things seem. Is the Navy trying to hide something? Does a drug-running ring in Christmas Valley have connections to the Middle East? What's up with Crazy Charlie? And is the bottle-and-cans man who drifted into town really who he seems to be? When the dust settles, Sheriff Bud Blair is left with a new homicide to solve, a suspicion that a mole is hiding in the NCIS, and an unpaid debt to a man who doesn't officially exist--the mysterious Stone Fly.

255 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 23, 2024

About the author

Rod Collins is the founder and owner of Wiki-Management, a Denver-based management consulting firm. Rod helps companies make the leap to extraordinary performance by showing them how they can gain quick access to the most untapped resource in almost every business: the collective knowledge of its own people. By learning how to leverage this rich resource, business leaders are able to transform slow-moving hierarchical bureaucracies into agile collaborative communities.

Collins is the former chief operating executive of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Federal Employee Program, one of the nations largest and most successful business alliances, with over $19 billion in annual revenues. Under his leadership, the business increased its market share by 16 percentage points, and year after year, set new records for operational and financial performance.

Rod is the author of Leadership in a Wiki World: Leveraging Collective Knowledge to Make the Leap to Extraordinary Performance. He also writes a weekly blog on management innovation, which highlights how the most successful business leaders are reinventing management to stay ahead of todays ever-accelerating pace of change.
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