The Nail Knot

By John Galligan

Book Overview

From the author of the "gritty, brash, and totally gripping" (The Real Book Spy) Bad Axe County series comes the first novel in the Fly Fishing Mystery series about a wayward fisherman, Ned "Dog" Oglivie, who finds himself in the middle of a small-town murder investigation.

When the going gets tough, Ned "Dog" Oglivie goes fly fishing.

Driven by tragedy to turn his back on human society, the Dog is on a quest to trout-fish himself into oblivion all across America. Plying the back highways of the country in an old RV, provisioned with a supply of peanut butter sandwiches, bad cigars, and a loaded pistol (for when the money runs out), the Dog rolls into little Black Earth, Wisconsin, intending to fish the yellow sally stonefly hatch...and stumbles upon a body instead.

Who killed Jake Jacobs, a fellow fly fisher who was trying to save Black Earth Creek? Why was he disfigured in such a peculiar way? Why does the Dog even give a damn? By caring about the death of a stranger, can the Dog recover his own life? And can he untie the nail knot in this "well-written, humorous, and engaging mystery" (Anthony Naples, Casting Around)?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1982187867
• ISBN13: 9781982187866
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Gallery Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

An original and deftly written murder mystery

The Nail Knot by John Galligan is an original and deftly written murder mystery about Ned "Dog" Oglivie, a dedicated fly fisherman in Wisconsin who is unfortunate enough to find the disfigured and dead body of Jake Jacobs (Dog's fellow fly fisher and a late-coming agitator trying to save Black Earth Creek). Confronted with n entire small town of suspects, Dog's desire to leave the town is thwarted and he must solve the mystery and find the killer -- and in doing so, Dog comes to rediscover what it means to care about another human being, whether living or dead. The Nail Knot is a terrific mystery that rivets the readers rapt and total attention from beginning to end!