14 Ergebnisse.

The fourth Macduff Brooks mystery opens with Macduff and his fiancée Lucinda peacefully reading the newspapers at breakfast. One story is about a body of someone Macduff knows found wrapped in a fishing gill net hanging from a channel marker near Sanibel, Florida. It may not be the last such incident.

Dylan Scott is a yacht interior designer who lives on his Hinckley Bermuda 40 at Pier H-9 at Camachee Cove in St. Augustine. He also acquires a condo at the edge of the marina. Tragedy strikes when an uninvited young woman arrives and asks to have sailing lessons.A county sheriff, Steve Porter, arrives and begins a friendship with Dylan. He introduces Dylan, who has a poor history with even having a second date with a woman, to Liz, his main d...

Dylan Scott, single but looking, is relaxing and reading on his Hinkley Bermuda 40 yacht, moored at Pier H-9 at Camachee Cove in St. Augustine. He is approached by a young woman, Heather McCabe, who asks Dylan for a lesson in how to sail. She was a fellow student but not a close friend at law school of Isla Whitney, who is a niece of Dylan. Heather slowly invites herself aboard and down into the cabin. After an increasingly pleasant discussion...

Macduff Brooks has survived numerous adventures. First, a friend of Macduff is shot while floating on the Snake River in Wyoming in Macduff's drift boat¿Osprey (Deadly Drifts). A year later, several shuttle gals¿women who move a fishing guide's vehicle and trailer from where the boat was put in to where it is to be taken out¿were murdered and crucified on crosses tied to Macduff's trailer (Crosses to Bear). After that, five acquaintances of Ma...

A diversion dam¿about six feet high and several yards across¿is alongside Mill Creek in Paradise Valley, Montana. The owner of the dam annually opens the dam to allow water to his farm in late summer and early fall. All of the water is diverted causing the creek to become waterless and all the fish to perish.The farmer, Oscar Macpherson, refuses to allow even a small amount of water to remain in the normal course and allow the fish to survive....

A diversion dam¿about six feet high and several yards across¿is alongside Mill Creek in Paradise Valley, Montana. The owner of the dam annually opens the dam to allow water to his farm in late summer and early fall. All of the water is diverted causing the creek to become waterless and all the fish to perish.The farmer, Oscar Macpherson, refuses to allow even a small amount of water to remain in the normal course and allow the fish to survive....

In this sequel to Deadly Drifts, Macduff Brooks has survived the shoot-out on the Snake River in Wyoming. The following season, guiding on the Yellowstone River in Montana, when he reaches the takeout after a day's float, he discovers the body of the woman who shuttled his SUV and trailer. She may have been killed by the sister of a Mexican drug lord she offended, or by a member of People Against Recreational Angling (PARA), or by some agricul...

Macduff Brooks works hard at being a decent fly fishing guide in Wyoming and Montana, plays the oboe marginally, drinks too much Gentlemen Jack, and struggles with relationships with women. But he hasn't been Macduff Brooks for very long and often he wants to return to his earlier existence as happily married law professor Maxwell Hunt in Florida. It is not to be for his wife has died in a boating accident on the Snake River in Wyoming, and a ...

Macduff Brooks and his new bride, Lucinda, are enjoying a Montana summer when they read in the N.Y.Times that Juan Mendoza, a member of Congress in D.C. from New Mexico, has disappeared while fly fishing in Cuba. Lucinda earlier had been asked by a Canadian travel magazine to go to Cuba and photograph author Ernest Hemingway's favorite places. With the aid of Dan Wilson and Juan's sister, Elena, also a member of Congress but from Connecticut, ...

Macduff Brooks wants to return to his earlier existence as Florida law professor Maxwell Hunt. Depressed after his wife El died in a terrifying boating accident on the Snake River in Wyoming, Hunt increasingly accepted "special work" for a federal agency. He was nearly killed in Guatemala and reported as having died of a stroke. He was placed in a federal protection program with a new identity as a fly fishing guide and a new home in Montana. ...

Gill Net Games, the fourth Macduff Brooks mystery and the first of a planned Florida/Cuba trilo-gy, begins with Macduff and Lucinda peacefully reading the newspapers at breakfast at Macduff's Montana cabin. One story in the New York Times is about a body of someone Macduff knows found wrapped in a fishing gill net hanging from a channel marker near Sanibel, Florida. The next day, while fishing near the Montana cabin, Macduff and Lucinda discov...

Macduff Brooks works hard at being a decent fly fishing guide in Wyoming and Montana, plays the oboe marginally, drinks too much Gentlemen Jack, and struggles with relationships with women. But he hasn't been Macduff Brooks for very long and often he wants to return to his earlier existence as happily married law professor Maxwell Hunt in Florida. It is not to be for his wife has died in a boating accident on the Snake River in Wyoming, and a ...

Fishing guide John Kirby, a close friend of Macduff Brooks, takes a client up Cascade Canyon in Grand Teton National Park to fish for small brook trout. They find a body in Cascade Creek. He may have accidentally fallen in, or committed suicide, or been murdered. He was a Master Casting Instructor and around his neck on a string was a black fly. Fingers are pointed at Kirby and Brooks. Further similar incidents occur on Mill Creek, a tribu...

Macduff and Lucinda Brooks are on their flats boat off Southwest Florida when they come upon an airboat driven into the mangroves. A body is in the propellercage, dismembered from being spun to death. The Brooks are drawn into the search for the killer by their curiosity, to the dismay of local authorities in Ft. Myers. As they have done since they met, Macduff and Lucinda move between St. Augustine, Florida, and Paradise Valley, Montana. Retu...