The Mountain Man's Dog (Paperback or Softback)

In the small town of Clarkesville, in the heart of the Oregon Cascade Mountains, a humble forester stumbles into the complex world of crooked cops and power-hungry politicians… all because he rescued a stray, injured dog on the highway.Lehigh Carter didn’t really mean to adopt the dog. But his ex-fiancée, Stacy McBride, convinces him to do it, with a promise to help. Their rekindled romance angers her father, state Senator George McBride, who sees her backwoods suitor as a blemish on his carefully created political image. It also sets off a chain of events that entangle Lehigh in a life-or-death conflict with the senator’s hardnosed campaign treasurer, Paul van Paten, who had his own plans for Stacy’s future.The Mountain Man’s Dog is a briskly told crime thriller loaded with equal parts suspense, romance, and light-hearted humor, pitting honor and loyalty against ruthless ambition and runaway greed in a town too small for anyone to get away with anything.

Gary Corbin is a writer, editor, and playwright inCamas, WA, a suburb of Portland, OR. Lying in Judgment, his Amazon.combest-selling legal thriller, was selected as Bookworks.com "Book of theWeek" for July 11-18, 2016, and was the feature novel on LiteraryLightbox's "Indie Spotlight" in February 2017.

Gary's second novel, The Mountain Man's Dog, came out in June 2016. The sequel, The Mountain Man's Bride, was released Feb. 8, 2017. The third book in the Mountain Man Mysteries series, The Mountain Man's Badge, will be released in June, 2018.

The long-awaited sequel to Lying in Judgment, Lying in Vengeance, was released in September, 2017.

All of these mysteries are available in hardcover, paperback, and ebook forms.

His writer's reference, Write Better Right Now: A Dozen Mistakes Good Writers Make-And How to Fix Them, is available exclusively on Kindle.

Gary's creative and journalistic work has been published in BrainstormNW, the Portland Tribune, The Oregonian, and Global Envision, among others. His plays have enjoyed critical acclaim and have enjoyed several productions in regional and community theaters.

Gary is a member of the Willamette Writers Group, Northwest Editors Guild, 9 Bridges Writers Group, PDX Playwrights, the Portland Area TheaterAlliance, and the Bar Noir Writers Workshop, and participates inworkshops and conferences in the Portland, Oregon area.

Ahomebrewer and coffee roaster, Gary loves to ski, cook, and watch hisbeloved Red Sox and Patriots. He hopes to someday train his dogs toobey. And when that doesn't work, he escapes to the Oregon coast withhis sweetheart.