Sitting Duck: Patrick Flint 7 — A What Doesn't Kill You Super Series Mystery

For fans of C.J. Box, Craig Johnson, and Harlan Coben — a late 1970s Wyoming thriller in which a hospital becomes a crime scene, Ben Jones resurfaces in Alaska, and Trish Flint finally gets to decide what she wants.

Dr. Patrick Flint is training for Mount Rainier when his dog Ferdinand finds a badly beaten woman in a ravine on his morning hike. The woman dies. Her killer is a man named Bull Folske — controlling, obsessive, and working his way down a list of people he believes wronged her. Bull Folske's list has the Flints on it.

The investigation leads Patrick and Deputy Ronnie Harcourt into a hospital murder — a body in the supply closet, a bloody scalpel, and two bound figures Patrick recognizes — while Trish auditions for cheerleading, Perry starts on the freshman varsity football squad, and Susanne juggles a college research position and a very persistent professor. Ben Jones has been traced to Ketchikan, Alaska. He refuses to come back. The private investigator is burning through the retainer.

Sitting Duck is the series' longest book and its most character-dense — a story about obsession, distance, and what it means to let go of people who won't stay. It is the one where Perry quietly prevents his friend from drunk driving, where Trish discovers how to trust her own instincts again, and where Patrick finally understands why Ferdinand the Irish Wolfhound keeps showing up at exactly the right moment.

Sitting Duck is the seventh Patrick Flint novel, set in the Buffalo and Story, Wyoming of 1977–78. Author Pamela Fagan Hutchins knows these hills from the inside. Ben Jones knows them too, which is why he left. Complete series: 9 novels.

A stalker, a hospital murder, and a boy in Alaska who won't come home. Dr. Patrick Flint is training for a mountain. His family is training for everything else. Complete series: 9 novels.