A hot August afternoon and Midwest Clinic CEO John McNeil has been
working late. Working on his latest conquest, that is. Jen Williams is
twenty-six, in charge of graphics for the hospital's PR division--and
quite attractive in a healthy, athletic kind of way. She is quick to
laugh and a little too quick to fall for guys. She is no virgin. And she
is one of three women--including his wife--intimately familiar with
McNeil.
When Jen's youthful body is found with a single stab wound through the
heart, suspicion falls on both McNeil's wife, who insists she is being
stalked, and the striking hospital physician with whom he had just ended
an affair. Pressure to find the killer falls on Loon Lake Police Chief
Lewellyn "Lew" Ferris and Dr. Paul "Doc" Osborne, the retired dentist
and forensic dental expert whom she has deputized to help with the
investigation--when they are not taking a break for fishing and other
personal pursuits. When the mayor demands Lew take early retirement--and
Doc has to babysit his teenage granddaughter who won't stop texting--the
frustrations mount.
Desperate for a few hours off--and persuaded by Ray Pradt (a fishing
guide who wears a stuffed trout on his head, so they should have known
better)--to try fly fishing from kayaks, Doc and Lew find themselves in
life-and-death straits on the river. This leads to an unexpected and
macabre discovery that just may break the case.
