The Royal Wulff Murders

by Keith McCafferty

Book Overview

The first novel in the clever and fast-paced Sean Stranahan Mystery Series. When a fishing guide reels in the body of a young man on the Madison, the Holy Grail of Montana trout rivers, Sheriff Martha Ettinger suspects foul play. It's not just the stick jammed into the man's eye that draws her attention; it's the Royal Wulff trout fly stuck in his bloated lower lip. Following her instincts, Ettinger soon finds herself crossing paths with Montana newcomer Sean Stranahan. Fly fisher, painter, and has-been private detective, Stranahan left a failed marriage and lackluster career to drive to Montana, where he lives in an art studio decorated with fly-tying feathers and mouse droppings. With more luck catching fish than clients, Stranahan is completely captivated when Southern siren Velvet Lafayette walks into his life, intent on hiring his services to find her missing brother. The clues lead Stranahan and Ettinger back to Montana's Big Business: fly fishing. Where there's money, there's bound to be crime.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670023264
• ISBN13: 9780670023264
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Viking Books
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Mystety in the outdoors

The Royal Wulff Murder is first in a Montana based mystery series. A body is found by a finishing guide and investigated by Sheriff Martha Ettinger. At the same time newcomer Sean Stratanhan, a former private investigator turned painter and fisherman. That is until Velvet Lafayette comes to Sean to look for her missing brother and the two cases inert and have Sean and Martha working. It was great reading this book set in the outdoors and small towns. Martha and also the lead detective Sean were interesting and likeable. The mystery had all the elements.