Interested in nature and wildlife, and love a good outdoor mystery? You've come to the right place.

Disappearance Creek: Whip Sawtell fights his way through a blinding snowstorm in the Wyoming high country, discovers a new wolf population in a vast wilderness area, and follows a killer and his wolf-dog into a cave with only one entrance and a lot of black holes.

Outlaw Creek: Wildlife biologists Whip Sawtell and Cat Bonner enter an abandoned mine in Wyoming looking for an endangered bat, but find two dead men, one shot over one hundred years ago, and one killed very recently. Sawtell uncovers a mystery that links back to the days of the outlaw, Butch Cassidy, and the famous Outlaw Trail. 

Ghost in the Rocks: wildlife biologists Whip Sawtell and Cat Bonner thwart a conspiracy to steal underground water in Yucatan, Mexico; and another to develop a copper mine in a protected wilderness area in Arizona. Conducting a remote camera project, they stumble upon a new jaguar population in the US.


River of Life is a photo/essay book celebrating the beauty of the San Pedro River in southeastern Arizona.






All photos on this website are Copyrighted by RJ Luce 
RJ Luce
Mystery Writer & Nature Photographer
Here are some of my favorite adventure and  mystery writers. If you like them too then you will enjoy Disappearance Creek, Outlaw Creek, and Ghost in the Rocks