Rifle Season, Pat Kelly
Rifle Season, Pat Kelly
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Rifle Season
A Thriller

Author: Pat Kelly

Series: Mace Winters Series

Narrator: Pete Simonelli

Unabridged: 9 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/27/2026


Synopsis

A game hunter is in a race against time to save his family from the most dangerous predator on earth—other people—in this high-stakes thriller in the vein of Jack Carr and Peter Heller.

Mason “Mace” Winters, with his acclaimed reputation as one of the best big game hunters in Colorado, lives for the thrill of the hunt. His lucrative career guiding the wealthy on intense hunts through the Colorado mountains is suddenly brought to a stop when an accident hangs an involuntary manslaughter conviction around his neck. Now he’s relegated to a life of trash pickup in the very wilderness where his prowess as a tracker and killer was the stuff of legends.

At rock bottom, Mace descends into a haze of Tito’s and sativa when two strangers seek him out. They wave enough cash under his nose to convince him to help them up into the mountains he knows so well on the opening day of Colorado’s rifle season. An innocent enough request, and the perfect cover for the trip’s true purpose: to assassinate an infamous warlord. All at once, Mace goes from unwitting to unwilling accomplice and it will take all his now dusty skills to outfox his patrons in their deadly game.

About Pat Kelly

Pat Kelly, born in Galveston, Texas, and raised in Denver, attended CU Boulder. After working as a writer in New York City, he pursued screenwriting in Los Angeles, and his credits include A Perfect Murder and Don’t Say a WordRifle Season is his debut novel. He currently lives in San Miguel County, Colorado, and Malibu.  


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sandra on October 22, 2025

Rifle Season is a dark, gritty, propulsive debut novel by Author Pat Kelly that introduces readers to Mason (aka Mace) Winters whose legendary reputation as an expert big game hunter and guide in Colorado was besmirched after a hunting accident saddles him with an involuntary manslaughter conviction......more

Goodreads review by Abibliofob on November 03, 2025

There was something about in description of this book that caught my eye and boy am I glad it did. Rifle Season by Pat Kelly is one wonderfullly well written first book that I wish I could read one again for the first time. It's rural, smalltown and it's very hard to put down. A thriller with some g......more

Goodreads review by Steven on October 06, 2025

READ MY FULL REVIEW AT Best Thriller Books Rifle Season is a straight-shooting, violent and intense story about reckoning, retribution, and redemption. Dark, ominous and unnerving in all the best ways. Pat Kelly’s debut thriller hits the bullseye. From the setting to the characters and the overall pl......more

Goodreads review by Cindy on September 08, 2025

4.5 stars. So beautifully written and a fabulous thriller.......more

Goodreads review by Janine on February 24, 2026

4.5 Gripping and compelling right from the start. It took a little while to get used to the writer’s style but I like it very much. No skimming for me in this book. He packs a lot of descriptive detail into a sentence; some I reread for pleasure, some because I didn’t always understand at first pass......more