Keyhole Spring

by Mary Frisbee

Keyhole Spring is the third mystery featuring artist Trout Brooke, a dog-loving, book-devouring painter of environmental disasters. While helping twelve-year-old Tommy Sharpe recover from the violence she experienced in Puzzle Creek, Brooke shares the story of her own past assault - also a revelation to Brooke's mother Mary Beth, with whom she was reunited in Satori Ranch. As Brooke's tale unfolds, we learn of the events that transformed this environmentalist into a seemingly fearless defender of women's rights: In 2008, after a violent assault in her home in Silverplate, Montana, Brooke manages to make a strong recovery and take back the power from her attacker. Because of her brilliant visual memory, rapist Wayne Ripplinger is brought to justice. Mysteriously, Ripplinger escapes, starting a chain of events in which Brooke ferrets out the solutions to two brutal murders - one current, another from the past. Set in Montana and Yellowstone Park, and with an abundance of twists and turns, Keyhole Spring is a complex and engaging page-turner.

348 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 21, 2013

About the author

Mary Frisbee, the author of Satori Ranch, Puzzle Creek, and Keyhole Spring, was born and raised in Montana. Currently professor of art at the University of Northern Iowa, she is also the author of Visual Workouts: a collection of artmaking problems. Her work in drawing, sculpture, and metals/jewelry has been exhibited extensively in over one hundred national and international exhibitions, and her work is in the Medals collection of the British Museum. Along with her husband and cats, Frisbee divides her time between Iowa, Montana, and the Oregon coast.
Artist's Website: www.maryfrisbeejohnson.com