J. M. Mitchell

J.M. Mitchell had a long career with the National Park Service, knew the conflict over public policy, and knows where the bodies are buried. He was Chief of the agency's Biological Resource Management Division and retired after 36 years of service, having worked in Yosemite, Grand Canyon and Zion National Parks, Washington, D.C. and Fort Collins, Colorado. His third novel, Killing Godiva's Horse, was a finalist for the (Colorado Humanities) 2019 Colorado Book Awards, Thriller category, and winner of the 2019 Colorado Authors' League Award for (contemporary) Western. His second novel, The Height of Secrecy, received the Colorado Author’s League 2015 Award for Mainstream Fiction, and was finalist in the New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards. He and his wife split their time between Littleton and their ranch on Colorado’s Western Slope.