Author Warren C. Easley at Griffin Bay Books
Posted September 19, 2014 at 5:25 am by Peggy Sue McRae
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Oregon author Warren Easley will be at Griffin Bay Bookstore on Saturday afternoon, September 27, 2:00—4:00 pm to introduce his latest Cal Claxton mystery. Anyone who is drawn to fly fishing, Oregon wines, and river rafting as a backdrop for a murder mystery should stop in the bookstore to meet the author and see what his new book is all about.
Cal Claxton is determined to reinvent himself as a small town lawyer. Once a hard charging L.A. prosecutor, he now lives in an old farmhouse overlooking the Oregon wine country. His passion is fishing, and he sometimes works as a guide.
Dead Float is set on Oregon’s gorgeous Deschutes River and in its canyons, where there’s not just the lure of fly fishing, but also a mystery for Cal Claxton to solve.
His best friend Philip Lone Deer asks him to assist guiding a group of executives from a high tech firm in Portland. For a fly fisherman, it doesn’t get any better than the salmon fly hatch on the Deschutes River, Oregon’s legendary trout fishing venue. The execs, however, aren’t coming just to fish. They’re engaging in a conflict resolution exercise where the future of the firm is to be determined. And Cal learns, too late, that the company’s CEO is bringing his wife, the woman with whom Cal once had a fling. The trip through the remote Deschutes Canyon turns ugly when CEO Hal is murdered during the first night’s camp. Everyone in the party is a suspect, especially Cal. And his knife and vest have disappeared. Does the fact that the company’s value is about to explode play into the crime? What about the freight line running along the river? Could a hired killer have come and gone from the scene of the crime by hopping trains? As two local cops come down heavily on Cal, can he come up with a watertight solution as he did in the tricky Portland case Matters of Doubt.
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