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The Clinch Knot summary The Dog is in Livingston, Montana, daydreaming about fishing the ‘Stone and, as usual, subsisting on Swisher Sweets, vodka-Tang, and the hope that pretending to forget will be enough. He’s forged a few tenuous friendships, and now finds himself watching from the bank as troubled local girl Jesse Ringer leads D’Ontario Sneed into the swift current of young love. It’s sweet, really … but some of the locals object to the relationship on the basis of Sneed’s skin color. Then the unthinkable: vibrant, wild Jesse is found shot in the head, and Sneed is passed out in her car, gun beside him, window seams taped, and engine running. Sneed is hospitalized for severe carbon monoxide poisoning and can’t string together a sentence to defend himself, so it falls to the Dog. If only the Dog could run from his life without ending up in the tangle and snarl of the lives of others. A man who wants to lose himself in the current must be careful of his backcast; it’ll always keep him tethered to a life he’s trying to forget. |
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Praise for John Galligan's Fly Fishing Mysteries “A superbly told tale of trout and red herrings chased with vodka and Tang…The tetchy xenophobia of Witness combined with the unbridled energy of Deliverance and a touch of The Compleat Angler: one helluva story.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “[Galligan] brilliantly draws the Snopes-like Kussmauls while writing with flair and passion about fly-fishing, art and fate.”—Publishers Weekly “Fly fishing, drug abuse, and a backwoods Amish community form an unlikely yet irresistible mix in this deeply-textured noir.”—Mystery Scene Magazine “This is not a fly fishing mystery. It is a riotous account of what happens when your life goes horridly awry and you run out of money in the middle of Wisconsin, and a possibly rabid beaver bites you, then you find a dead body in a stream when all you want to do is fish. I loved it to death.”—Mary Logue “His writing is unique in a genre where books can very easily blend together. While they claim to be fly fishing mysteries, they are much more. They are human and emotional and poignant and totally original. His insight into human nature is evident on every page.”—Crimespree |
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John Galligan lives in Madison, WI. He 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. |
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