Set in the author's native Columbia River country of the Pacific Northwest in the 1920s, this is the story of Amos Clarke, a hot-headed young sheriff's assistant, who is sent away when complications arise after an accidental killing, but while traveling, with the help of an older man, attempts to solve another murder. "Not only a crime story, Winds of Morning is an evocative tale of a changing frontier, where the rugged homesteaders have given way...