Ferguson's Trip: A Northern Maine Crime Novel

by Trevor Holliday

Dead of winter.
Deep in the Haynesville Woods, Thane Ferguson, closes the front door of his lodge. Tonight he will play in the last hockey game of the season. Maybe the last game of his career.
The snow is coming down hard and turning the roads to ice.
People tell stories about these woods. Phantom hitchhikers. Ghosts.
Ferguson's daughter is driving through these woods tonight.
And the loner with a gun is very real.
Ferguson's Trip is a crime novel set in the woods of Northern Maine.

183 pages, Paperback

Published August 12, 2022

About the author

I was born in Houston, Texas and while growing up lived in Maine and Ohio. While I was in the army, I served in Korea and Turkey. I taught school in northern Arizona for over twenty years and in the United Arab Emirates for five. My wife Carolyn Holliday and I now live in Erie County, Pennsylvania.
My paintings and novels can be found at trevorholliday.com

Reviews

[Lily Holliday · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ok, I may be just a little biased because my brother wrote this book, and because he set it in the town in northern Maine where we lived for awhile when our father taught a a college there. All that aside, I loved this book. I laughed out loud at times - Trevor's dry wit reveals itself throughout. He is so very accurate in the details of his characters as well as the time and place which they inhabit. The story builds in subtle increments that made me not want to put it down. It's a quick read, and it left me wanting more books about Ferguson

[Blair Roberts · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fast-paced crime story paralleled by a Maine snowstorm. Mr. Holliday evoked a Charles Willeford vibe with a loose plot and a tight conclusion.

[Conor Daley · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wanted to love this book. The premise felt great, and I was imaging a cross of Russo and Leonard and it never quite lived about to my imagination, now granted not much could be that combo.

I’m a way it reminded me of this Japanese book I once read called Snow Country in that the ending just kind have ambled up and happened. Maybe the more I mull on it the more I’ll like it, but for now it felt anti- climactic, and if it was about creating an atmosphere then I really needed a lot more to be in that zone.

Cover thought 6 out of 5 stars. I’d buy a poster version of that.