Mystery
Date Published: February 18, 2026
Narrator: Greg O’Donahue
Run time: 5 hours 20 minutes.
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.
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.
