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Jeff Talbot left the FBI and now makes his living as an antiques picker. Pickers are the workhorses of the antiques trade. They do the legwork, going to antiques auctions and estate sales, going through barns, emptying houses when heirs want someone to get rid of the junk their ancestors accumulated, and taking the pickings to various antiques dealers, most of whom have specialties: furniture, books, etc. An occasional fishing weekend is Jeff's favored mode of relaxation. His wife is agoraphobic and never leaves the large house in Seattle that Talbot inherited. Jeff and his buddies meet at Bill Rhodes Bait and Tackle Shop. Bill is a collector of antique fishing lures and is usually a member of the party who go to Judge Larrabee's fishing shack for a long weekend of fishin', eatin' and whatever guys do when they don't bathe or shave for a few days. However, when they get to Bill's shop, they find that Bill has been murdered. Sheriff Colleen MacIvers, recovering from cancer therapy, appears to know what she is doing, so the men, Sam Carver, a furniture restorer, descendant of a slave furniture maker, Judge Richard Larrabee, and Kyle Meredith, a newbie invited by the Judge who turns up with too much equipment and a collection of antique fishing lures which he doesn't care about, and which end up as chips in the poker game. Morgan has done it again. Taken a section of the vast antiques and collectibles field and made it comprehensible to the average reader. I have absolutely no interest in fly fishing or its paraphernalia, yet the story kept my interest to its twisted conclusion. Start with DEATH IS A CABARET, and go on the WEEDLESS WIDOW. I eagerly await the third in the series, due out just in time for Bouchercon in Las Vegas in October
Reviewed by Mary V. Welk, June 2003
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