Gray Ghost
A Stoney Calhoun Novel
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4.7 • 6 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Seven years ago, Stoney Calhoun woke up in a VA hospital with no memories. He still remembers nothing from before then, except that he has a few unexplained skills--a gift for angling, an ability to read French--and recently it's been made clear to him that it would be best if he never does.
Working as a guide on Casco Bay, Maine, Stoney is out with a client on an early morning fly fishing expedition when they find the charred remains of a recent corpse on a small, uninhabited island. A couple of days later, Calhoun's client turns up in the driveway of Stoney's cabin in the woods--shot dead in the front seat of his SUV.
In the midst of a couple of inexplicable murders, both of which clearly have something to do with Stoney, past or present, it's up to him find out the truth...or risk becoming the next victim.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The pleasures of the outdoors lift the second Stoney Calhoun novel\t\t (after 2004's Bitch Creek) from Tapply, best\t\t known for his many mysteries about Boston lawyer Brady Coyne (Out Cold, etc.). Stoney, who lost his memory when he\t\t was struck by lightning years earlier, knows how to tie a gray ghost "a fly\t\t used for salmon "as well as other skills useful to his new life as half-owner\t\t of a bait shop in Portland, Maine. Occasionally, hints about his past arrive\t\t like muscle twinges "survival skills of the sort learned in law enforcement,\t\t reinforced by infrequent visits from "a grayish, nondescript guy from some\t\t government agency who'd been sent to keep an eye on him." But Stoney is mostly\t\t on his own as he struggles to find out why a burned corpse turns up on a small\t\t island, and why the fishing client who was with him when they discovered the\t\t body is also killed. Readers will look forward to learning more about Tapply's\t\t new character, who with any luck will be around as long as Brady Coyne.\t\t
