Black Flies

by M.W. Gordon

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 tributary of the Yellowstone River in Montana, and at a canal at Crystal River, Florida.

Brooks is accused of murder by the ambitious Attorney General of Wyoming, and by a prosecutor in Crystal River. Affecting the resolution of the deaths are problems with coroners and medical examiners, matching and phenotyping DNA, and the clash of politics, budgets, and justice.

Macduff and Lucinda are also drawn into dealing with Reginald Covington, the powerful Bahamian businessman who used his house to keep Lucinda for months of her subjection to Ellsworth-Kent’s use of hypnosis.

Finally, Guatemalan President Juan Pablo Herzog learns something new about what happened to Professor Hunt.

299 pages, Paperback

Published September 30, 2016

About the author

M.W.Gordon taught law for four decades, authoring dozens of books and articles, and traveling widely for the State, Commerce, and Justice department, and the Council of Foreign Relations. Changing focus, he stopped teaching, built a wooden drift-boat named Osprey, and became a fly fishing guide. He divides his time between the salt-marsh flats below St. Augustine, Florida, and the creeks and rivers of Wyoming and Montana. He has floated Osprey on numerous rivers, including rescuing a father and young children after their drift boat, overloaded with six persons, crashed into trees and sank on the Snake River in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He has worked with Project Healing Waters in Montana, taking combat-wounded disabled–vets fly fishing on the Yellowstone River. His author-wife Buff and he live in Summer Haven, south of St. Augustine, with their Sheltie, Macduff. See www.mwgordonnovels.com