Lawrence Gough lives in Vancouver and writes plays for Radio Canada. The collection offered to the reader presents three works by the author, which are the beginning of his popular series of novels, in which the main characters are Vancouver police detectives Jack Willows and Claire Parker. Instead of a trout, the corpse is caught by detective Jack Willows. "Death on a Fishhook" opens a collection of novels about Willows and his partner Claire Parker. Fulfilling a Californian order, killer Manny Katz must kill three Canadian teenagers. He himself becomes a target not only for the Canadian police, but also for his boss.