02268cam a2200349 i 4500 535880426 TxGeo 20211112120000.0 140701s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781440550881 trade pbk. 1440550883 trade pbk. (OCoLC)882275908 TxGeo rda Houston, Victoria. Dead Madonna / Victoria Houston. Blue Ash, OH : Tyrus Books, 2008. 224 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Loon Lake mystery ; 8 Whoever thought life in the Northwoods could be this dangerous? When the body of a lovely young woman is found floating beneath a party pontoon on a popular lake in northern Wisconsin on the same morning that a prominent widow is found bludgeoned in her gracious home, Loon Lake Police Chief Lew Ferris is caught short-handed. This is not a problem for Doc Osborne, whom she deputizes to act as coroner and to assist with the investigation. Fishing aside, there's nothing Osborne likes better than helping Lew--a world-class fly fisherman in her own right--delve into Loon Lake's criminal underworld. They're joined in their efforts to untangle two seemingly unrelated murders by walleye-expert, talented tracker, and teller of really bad jokes, Ray Pradt. A charming resort town on the surface, life in Loon Lake turns murky as bank officials soon discover that both victims' accounts have been looted--along with a dozen others. One grisly development after another further links the two murders even though the victims did not know each other. Wealthy Chicagoans, visiting entrepreneurs, and the young denizens of Party Cove complicate the scene. 20211130. Ferris, Lewellyn (Fictitious character) Fiction. Osbourne, Doc (Fictitious character) Fiction. Murder Fiction. Fly fishing Fiction. Wisconsin Fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. Loon Lake mystery ; 8. QS5