Six-Pound Walleye (Jake Hines Mysteries) [Hardcover]

Elizabeth Gunn (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 2001 | Series: Jake Hines Mysteries

DEAD OF WINTER

It's a gray, bone-chilling February in Rutherford, Minnesota, and bad moods are contagious. Things go from bad to worse when a schoolboy suddenly collapses while waiting for the bus and is pronounced DOA from a gunshot wound to the heart.

Across town, a riot breaks out among members of the hockey team in the high school parking lot, apparently instigated by the police chief's son. For detective Jake Hines, spring is still a very long way off.

Fighting the winter blues north of the forty-third parallel requires a change in attitude, something Jake is able to do as he tackles these highly sensitive cases. When a call about the shooting of a dog provides Jake and his team with the missing link, things start to heat up -- and bring a killer's blood to the boiling point.

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

To describe Gunn's (Five Card Stud, etc.) fourth Hines novel as outstanding may be an understatement. Its prose is crisp as a cracker. On a typical cold, gray February day in Rutherford, Minn., everybody seems to be in a bad mood. Chief of Detectives Jake Hines's lover has inexplicably blown up at him and walked out. Hines's boss, Chief McCafferty, is forced to plan a retirement party for an officer no one likes. The department is in the throes of a computerization beset by bugs. And suddenly normally peaceful Rutherford High explodes into a donnybrook among members of the hockey team in the school parking lot that sends one boy to the hospital. The assailant is McCafferty's son. But the worst is yet to come: a small boy, standing in his front yard, waiting for the school bus, surrounded by children and adults, is shot dead without anyone hearing the shot. Hines, still new to his post as chief of detectives, takes charge of the investigations with admirable and plausible efficiency. The crime is a heinous one and, as with all the other threads in Gunn's complex procedural, it is dramatized realistically, with intelligence and insight. There's humor and humanity here, but nothing cute or cozy. All the minor characters are well realized and credibly motivated. Especially impressive is the "minor" matter of Jake's domestic flare-up, which is bound to make many readers squirm with recognition. Gunn's latest is a hard-to-put-down thriller an excellent piece of craftsmanship. Agent, Jane Chelius.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

Small-town Minnesota police detective Jake Hines (Five Card Stud) investigates the shooting death of a small boy and a parking-lot free-for-all at the high school. Complications in the first incident involve lack of a gun and gunshots, while problems in the second arise from participation of the chief's son. For all collections.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Walker & Company; 1ST edition (June 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0802733565
• ISBN-13: 978-0802733566
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,941,441 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Jake is getting better!, August 10, 2001

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Mariann Miller "memline" (HAVRE, MT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Six-Pound Walleye (Jake Hines Mysteries) (Hardcover)

I have enjoyed all of the Jake Hines books, but they are getting better. Even the first grabbed my interest and made me care for the various people in them, especially Jake, but I really can't wait for the next book now as I am involved in the lives of these folks. Jake has his problems, but he is stable, caring, and efficient. I like him! Keep up the good work, Ms Gunn.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Small-town Mystery, March 13, 2002

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lvkleydorff - See all my reviews

This review is from: Six-Pound Walleye (Jake Hines Mysteries) (Hardcover)

We have a small boy who, standing at a bus stop in a group of other people, is shot dead. Nobody saw or heard anything. We have a high school, where World War III breaks out among the hockey players - and the son of police chief McCafferty in the midst of it. And we have Detective Jake Hines, who has trouble with his girl friend.

The book is well written, but brings nothing new or exiting. In a way, it just plods along until everything is solved - including the girl friend.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Six Pound Walleye....like a letter from home, September 4, 2001

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James Stayton - See all my reviews

This review is from: Six-Pound Walleye (Jake Hines Mysteries) (Hardcover)

Having lived in the city she renamed "Rutherford" for more than 30 years, it was like a letter from home. I could visulize the locations and the buildings described. I even identified the town where Jake Hines lived in the old farm house. My graandson is a cop in Lake City, a real river town.
Besides all that, the plot was well concieved and carried out. I enjoyed it and passed it on to my daughter who still lives there.