Karin Salvalaggio

Latest News

I will be celebrating the publication of SILENT RAIN at Face in a Book, El Dorado Hills, CA on Tuesday May 9th from 6.30 to 8pm. Please stop in for a class of wine and a chat!
I’m pleased to announce that SILENT RAIN, the fourth novel in the Macy Greeley Detective Series, will be available May 9th 2017 online and in stores in hardback, ebook and audio CD/download.
UK editions of BONE DUST WHITE, BURNT RIVER, and WALLEYE JUNCTION are now available in ebook and paperback from Amazon UK.
From May 18^th to 21^st I will be attending CrimeFest in Bristol, United Kingdom.
In October I will be attending The Bouchercon World Mystery Convention in Toronto.
The German edition of WALLEYE JUNCTION will be available in 2017.
Bragelonne have published the French edition of BONE DUST WHITE under the title POUSSIÈRES D’OS.

“This complicated, peel-away-layers debut procedural intoxicates from the opening page and has word-of-mouth selling power... Recommend for fans of Archer Mayor, Gwen Florio, and Craig Johnson. C.J. Box's The Highway comes to mind, too ”— Library Journal (starred review, Debut of the Month)

Silent Rain

Grace Adams has spent three years trying to move on—mentally, physically, emotionally—from the traumatizing events of in her past. But it’s not easy when the world is morbidly curious about the crimes that shaped her childhood, when despite her changed name, people still track her down for the sensational details. Now in college in Bolton, Montana, the one person Grace has trusted with the truth about her past has betrayed her.
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Walleye Junction

When outspoken radio talk show host Philip Long is kidnapped and murdered, Detective Macy Greeley leaves her young son in the care of her mother and heads up to remote Walleye Junction, Montana to take charge of the investigation. It is initially believed that Long’s murder is the result of a controversial radio show he’s done on the rise of far right militias in the state.
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Burnt River

It’s high summer and the drought stricken state of Montana is in the grip of a heat wave. Wilmington Creek, a sleepy ranching community in the northern Flathead Valley, has been especially hard hit. A series of wildfires has pushed the area’s resources to the limit. Darby Lake’s water level has dropped to a record low and a group of childhood friends are increasingly anxious about what may be uncovered if the rains don’t return to the valley soon. Click here to find out more »
Bone Dust White

It’s morning and the first winter snow falls heavily in the forested hills outside of Collier. An ambulance screams up the icy roads of a lonely neighbourhood startling the black crows that stand watch in the trees. Unsure of what they’ll find, two paramedics struggle to carry their heavy cases up the slope behind an isolated home. A cast-off shoe and a red stain seeping up through the snow. At first that’s all the paramedics see.
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Huffington Post Q&A

KARIN SALVALAGGIO is an exciting new voice in crime fiction. Bone Dust White has been called a “first rate debut” and she continues to receive critical praise for her heroine, Detective Macy Greeley. In our interview, Salvalaggio discusses her inspiration, her approach to writing, and how growing up in an Air Force family impacted her writing career.
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