There are 7 books in the A Sam Westin Mystery series. The newest book is If Only .

1
Endangered

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Summer "Sam" Westin's assignment to report on cougars in a Utah park goes horribly awry when a child vanishes from a campground and the TV news focuses on the local mountain lions as the likely culprits.

As days tick by with no sign of the missing boy and media coverage…

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2
Bear Bait

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** Winner of the Daphne du Maurier Award **

Sam Westin is working near Olympic National Park as a wildlife biologist when an explosion and fire destroy the tranquility of the wilderness.

When the blaze is extinguished, a body is discovered in the embers. It’s a young woman from the…

3
Undercurrents

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Book 3 of the Summer "Sam" Westin Eco-Mystery Series

Scuba diving off the Galápagos Islands, wildlife biologist and freelance writer Summer "Sam" Westin is not only out of her element--she's plunged right into a dangerous conflict between fishermen and environmentalists...

When Sam is hired to cover a marine survey expedition…

4
Backcountry

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A murder close to home…

Nature lovers Kyla Quintana-Johnson and her mother Kim Quintana have been brutally murdered on a popular trail in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State, and grief weighs heavily on Summer "Sam" Westin.

Duty calls…

Kim and Kyla ran Washington Wilderness Quest, an outdoor therapy school…

5
Borderland

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Wildlife photographer Jade Silva's last text message is a photo of a rare jaguar at the US-Mexico border wall.

When Jade vanishes, her fellow Southwestern Research Station volunteer, Sam Westin, agonizes that something terrible has happened. But finding Jade seems an almost impossible mission in a rugged area overrun by…

6
Cascade

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Just as society is celebrating the fade of the COVID quarantine restrictions, Sam Westin suddenly finds her life in shambles. While she and her friends were enjoying a spring snow outing in the North Cascades, an earthquake launches multiple avalanches to wreak destruction on the slopes. Now skiers are dead…