Corkscrew

by Wood, Ted

• ISBN13: 9781497642003
• ISBN10: 1497642000
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-07-22
• Publisher: Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller

Summary

A double murder in a Canadian fishing village pits a rogue cop against a motorcycle gang in a mystery with “a hero as canny as he is strong” (Publishers Weekly).

Reid Bennett and his dog Sam serve as the police force for not-so-quaint Murphy’s Harbor, Ontario. They have yet another perilous but important task. There are some pretty nasty bikers disrupting the façade of serenity of Murphy’s Harbor, and Reid must find a way to make them take a hike without “disrespecting their civil rights.” Reid really just wants to kill them, but he knows that he must act with discretion in order to keep hidden a secret from his past. Then, to complicate matters, a young boy named Kennie Spenser is reported missing. Reid has to find the boy, who may have been kidnapped for his camera, and restore order to Murphy’s Harbor. All in a day’s work!

Author Biography

Ted Wood was born in Shoreham, Sussex, England. Throughout his life, he was a flier, a beat cop, a pin-boy, a soda-jerk, a freight porter, and an advertising hotshot. He also wrote dozens of short stories, hundreds of magazine articles, including two long-running humor columns, television plays, and one musical comedy. He had fourteen books, thirteen of them novels, published in Canada, the United States, Britain, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, and Japan. Wood was the author of the acclaimed Reid Bennett mystery series. As Jack Barnao, he also wrote the John Locke Mysteries: Lockestep, Hammerlocke, and Timelocke.
 
After being widowed, he married his wife, Mary, in 1975. He was the father of three, stepfather to another three, and granddad to a total of nine, counting steps and one step-step. Wood ran Whitby’s Ezra Annes House bed and breakfast in partnership with Mary. He passed away in 2019.