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Buried by the Roan

Allison Coil Mystery #2 / 5
by Mark Stevens
Buried by the Roan (Allison Coil Mystery #2) by Mark Stevens
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Fracking ruptures more than the earth.

The spark for Buried by the Roan, the second novel in the Allison Coil Mystery Series, is a dead hunter on the shore of Oyster Lake, deep in the Flat Tops Wilderness. Josh Keating's demise could be a case of a hunter drinking too much and stumbling late at night. Or it could be something much worse. Plenty of other strange things are going on to make hunting guide Allison Coil think the death is no accident.

Someone is lurking around, leaving odd notes and maps. Hunters and guides are turning up violently ill from drinking the Flat Tops water. Four of the buffalo on Keating's ranch are slaughtered. And there's word that Keating and his neighbor were tangled up in a property dispute triggered by a centuries-old Colorado law known as adverse possession.

The future of the way of life in the rugged Colorado mountains is at stake.

Allison picks up the killer's trail but it leads to the simple, wicked device that murdered her client.

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Release date: August 2, 2011

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Mark Stevens

Mark Stevens

Mark Stevens is the author of The Flynn Martin Thriller series including No Lie Lasts Forever (June 2025) and Two Truths and A Lie (April 2026), both from Thomas & Mercer; The Fireballer (Lake Union, 2023), and The Allison Coil Mystery Series including Antler Dust, Buried by the Roan, Trapline, Lake of Fire, and The Melancholy Howl.

Buried by the Roan, Trapline, and Lake of Fire were all finalists for the Colorado Book Award. Trapline won.

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Stevens has published short stories in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Mystery Tribune, and Denver Noir (Akashic Books, 2022). Denver Noir went on to win the Colorado Book Award for Best Anthology in 2023.

Stevens was one of three co-editors for Four Corners Voices, an anthology of fiction, essays, and poetry that won the Colorado Book Award for Best Anthology in 2025.

In 2016 and again in 2023, Stevens was named Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers’ Writer of the Year.

For ten years, Stevens hosted a regular podcast for Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers. 

Stevens has served as president of the Rocky Mountain chapter for Mystery Writers of America. Stevens also regularly publishes reviews on his review website.

Today, Stevens lives in Mancos, Colorado.

Allison Coil Mystery

Allison Coil Mystery consists of five books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.

Antler Dust (Allison Coil Mystery #1)
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Buried by the Roan (Allison Coil Mystery #2)
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Trapline (Allison Coil Mystery #3)
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Lake of Fire (Allison Coil Mystery #4)
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The Melancholy Howl (Allison Coil Mystery #5)
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