Two retired murder cops, Jack Dolan and Mike Day share their lives with their Malamute, Marsh, their cat, Gertrude, and two quarter horses, Shy and Pop. Their cabin sits in a secluded mountain valley north of Vail, Colorado. Just up the road, the Pinecone Lodge offers flatlanders the experience to taste a bit of the Old West, including campfire lore from Charley Standing Bear, a Yampa Ute whose ancestors roamed the Colorado Rockies for a thousand years. When Charley learns that Jack Dolan used to solve murders in Denver by listening to the dead, he asks Jack if he would try to speak to the spirits of the Ute dead. Jack agrees to try, but not before he and Mike head to Fairplay, sixty miles south, where Sheriff Guy Packard has a murder of his own to solve.
Two retired murder cops, Jack Dolan and Mike Day share their lives with their Malamute, Marsh, their cat, Gertrude, and two quarter horses, Shy and Pop. Their cabin sits in a secluded mountain valley north of Vail, Colorado. Just up the road, the Pinecone Lodge offers flatlanders the experience to taste a bit of the Old West, including campfire lore from Charley Standing Bear, a Yampa Ute whose ancestors roamed the Colorado Rockies for a thousand years. When Charley learns that Jack Dolan used to solve murders in Denver by listening to the dead, he asks Jack if he would try to speak to the spirits of the Ute dead. Jack agrees to try, but not before he and Mike head to Fairplay, sixty miles south, where Sheriff Guy Packard has a murder of his own to solve.