Death on a No. 8 Hook

'Terse characterization and screwed-up tension' - Observer

All Jack Willows wants is a holiday - from work, from family, from life.

But when you're a cop, you're never off the clock, and when he stumbles across the body of a young girl up in the mountains, he finds himself headed back to reality and the city of Vancouver more quickly than he'd hoped.

Events become more tangled when Jack learns that in his absence his partner, Claire Parker, discovered the brutally murdered and mutilated body of a boy - a case that looks to be somehow connected to his own.

Mannie Katz is a sleazy, two-bit low-life who fancies himself a professional killer.

So when Felix hands him his first contract, for three teenagers, Mannie reckons it'll be an easy job.

But things rapidly start to spin out of his control, pushing him closer and closer to Vancouver's finest.

As the two detectives hunt for their killer, Mannie finds himself frantically trying to keep one step ahead...

Praise for Laurence Gough

'Jack Willows and Claire Parker... look to have the stamina for many future yarns' - The Times

'Terse characterization and screwed-up tension take this new author into the McBain class at one stride' - Observer

Laurence Gough resides in Vancouver, British Columbia, the city and its scenic surroundings providing the backdrop to his novels. A playwright as well as a novelist, he has had more than fifty plays broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, while his fiction has garnered a number of awards, including Arthur Ellis Awards for Best First Novel and Best Crime Novel of the Year and an Author Award from the Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Letters. Death on a No. 8 Hook is the second of twelve books to feature Detectives Willows and Parker. It follows The Goldfish Bowl.


Genre: Mystery