" Sam Meslik, a fishing guide, discovers a body in the Missouri River while out with a client one afternoon. Sean Stranahan is a artist who fled a broken marriage in Vermont in order to paint and fish in Montana. Now he paints at the Bridger Mountain Cultural Center and lives out of his Land Cruiser, trying to survive. On the door of his studio, he claims to be a private investigator, which he was, back in Massachusetts. A beautiful woman walks into his studio a few days after Sam finds the body and Sean is hooked, line and sinker. Vareda Beaudreaux wants Sean to find the place on the river where her father fished; together, they find out the body was Vareda's brother. Sean and Vareda want to find out why Jerry was killed and what it has to do with a fish hatchery and whirling disease, a disease that infects fingerling trout and kills them, decimating native trout populations. This was an interesting book and I learned a lot about fly fishing and fish biology than I ever really wanted to know, but it was quite entertaining. "
— Viccy, 2/18/2014