The Blood Knot: A Fly Fishing Mystery - Hardcover

Galligan, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1932557121 ISBN 13: 9781932557121

Publisher: Bleak House Books, 2005

Synopsis

The last thing The Dog wanted was to find another body. But there was Annie Adams-the barn lady-floating dead at his feet, her easel and paints set up on the bridge above his head. And so The Dog wades his way through Kussmaul country encountering a confessing nine year old, a dispute over trespassing, a shunned Amish woman, and a quite possibly rabid beaver. And The Dog knows, this is not a fishing trip.

About this title

About the Author:

Lives in Madison, WI. Is the author of the Fly Fishing mystery series including the award winning The Blood Knot. John is also the author of Red Sky, Red Dragonfly, a literary novel set in Japan. He is currently work on the next fly fishing mystery, The Clinch Knot.

From Publishers Weekly:

Galligan's rewarding if grim second fly-fishing mystery (after 2003's The Nail Knot) offers an emotionally tortured protagonist, Ned Oglivie (aka Dog), and a clan of misfits and survivors worthy of Faulkner, the Kussmauls, who coexist uneasily with each other and their Amish neighbors in remote Avalanche, Wis. Searching for oblivion on a three-year fishing trip and suffering from a vicious beaver bite, Dog is tramping through the woods one morning when he sees 10-year-old Deuce Kussmaul fire his kid-sized .22 into the body of "barn lady" Annie Adams lying in a stream. (Annie liked to paint pictures of barns.) After Deuce's mother, Eve, who's a banned Amish and a meth-user, treats Dog's beaver bite, he agrees to try to prove her son didn't kill Annie. The author brilliantly draws the Snopes-like Kussmauls while writing with flair and passion about fly-fishing, art and fate. But like J. Robert Janes's St. Cyr and Kohler series, Galligan will need to be hand-sold to reach the right audience.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Bleak House Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1932557121
• ISBN 13: 9781932557121
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300