"[T]he snowballing pace will keep the reader turning the pages until the unexpected finish."- Publishers Weekly

When paleoartist Ansel Phoenix finds a burnt body hanging from the mouth of her life-sized Allosaurus replica outside the Big Toe Natural History Museum, she starts digging. An Indian poacher has been cutting out fossil carnosaur tracks along the Redwater River, and the Bureau of Land Management is threatening to close the museum and move the tracks to an educational institution. And the FBI is freezing out the local cops.

Using her half-Blackfoot heritage as leverage, Ansel devises a dangerous scheme to help the FBI expose a statewide fossil-poaching ring. But she didn't count on starting a new romance, stumbling over a heinous BLM land-grabbing plot, or being stalked by a deadly nemesis from her childhood.

Christine Gentry lives in North Carolina and has a degree in psychology. She has taught freelance writing courses and police report writing for law enforcement personnel. Her published work includes magazine articles and fiction or nonfiction books. Currently, she has published nine books, Carnosaur Crimes being the second in the Ansel Phoenix mystery series. She is a past KINSA Photography contest winner, and most of her nonfiction books feature her color studio photography. She is currently working on several writing projects, one of which is a third Phoenix novel. Her author web site is www.gentrybooks.com.

Montana paleoartist Ansel Phoenix, stunned by the incinerated body of the Indian blasted up into the mouth of her life-sized Allosaurus replica standing outside the Big Toe Natural History Museum, starts digging. Poachers have been cutting out fossil Carnosaur tracks along the Red Water River-an Indian poacher-and the Bureau of Land Management is threatening to close the museum and move the tracks inside an educational institution. And the FBI investigation of the man's fatal accident, triggered by the explosion of a faulty valve on his propane-powered concrete saw, is freezing out the local cops. Who is the dead poacher? Clues point to a rodeo heritage. But a final answer will have to come from taking his head up to Billings for an attempt at facial reconstruction. Using her half-Blackfoot heritage as leverage, rancher's daughter Ansel devises a dangerous scheme to help the Feds-is it the FBI? Or is it the BLM? Or some other agency?-expose a statewide ring of dinosaur thieves. But she didn't count on complications with commercial dealers in fossils; it's a big money market. Or starting a new romance, or the continuation of her "partnership" with local law officer Reid Dorbandt. Or being stalked by a deadly nemesis from her childhood.