Book description
When the body of a lovely young woman is found floating beneath a
party pontoon on a popular lake in northern Wisconsin on the same
morning that a prominent widow is found bludgeoned in her gracious
home, Loon Lake Police Chief Lew Ferris is caught short-handed.
This is not a problem for Doc Osborne whom she deputizes to act as
coroner and to assist with the investigation. Fishing aside, there's
nothing Osborne likes better than helping Lew Â- a world-class fly
fisherman in her own right Â- delve into Loon Lake's criminal
underworld. They're joined in their efforts to untangle two seemingly
unrelated murders by walleye-expert, talented tracker and teller of
really bad jokes, Ray Pradt.
A charming resort town on the surface, life in Loon Lake turns murky
as bank officials soon discover that both victims' accounts have been
looted - along with a dozen others. One grisly development after
another further links the two murders even though the victims did not
know each other. Wealthy Chicagoans, visiting entrepreneurs and the
young denizens of "Party Cove" complicate the scene. Whoever
thought life in the Northwoods could be this dangerous?
In her teens and twenties, mystery author Victoria Houston
was the classic hometown girl who couldn't wait to leave her small
Wisconsin town. She has not only returned to her hometown,
Rhinelander, but she has based her popular Loon Lake mystery series in
the region's fishing culture. She has been featured in the Wall
Street Journal and on National Public Radio.
