In a suburb of Vancouver a sniper sets up for his next target Armed with his Winchester 460 Magnum rifle and Redfield variablepower scope he prepares for his next victim So begins this trilogy of taut and twisty thrillers Universally acclaimed for his unforgivingly tense style Laurence Gough the undisputed champion of Canadian crime Daily Telegraph serves up three tightly plotted and awardwinning stories to begin the Willows and Parker series 1 The Goldfish Bowl In the West End a sniper sets up for his next target Armed with his Winchester 460 Magnum rifle and Redfield variablepower scope he prepares for his next victim Alice Palm a woman who enjoys to party every Friday falls prey to the sniper The next a Greek widow on her way from work A gay taxi driver Jack Willows and his new partner Claire Parker are assigned the task of bringing the sniper in The killings have clearly been planned the targets carefully chosen Willows and Parker strive to overcome their initial awkwardness in their mission to bring this killer down When Franklin and Atkinson are assigned to search Phasia Palinkas apartment the Greek widow they inadvertently stumble across the sniper What was he doing in her apartment Disturbed the sniper takes his next victim Atkinson At the death of one of their own the investigation takes on a whole new angle Franklin noticeably shaken from the ordeal is unable to provide a clear recollection of the events leading up to the death of Atkinson As the investigation deepens Willows and Parker realise there is more to the killings how does the sniper know exactly when to strike If the killer is always one step ahead will the crime ever be solved 2 Death On a No 8 Hook All Jack Willows wants is a holiday from work from family from life But when youre a cop youre never off the clock and when he stumbles across the body of a young girl up in the mountains he finds himself headed back to reality and the city of Vancouver more quickly than hed hoped Events become more tangled when Jack learns that in his absence his partner Claire Parker discovered the brutally murdered and mutilated body of a boy a case that looks to be somehow connected to his own Mannie Katz is a sleazy twobit lowlife who fancies himself a professional killer So when Felix hands him his first contract for three teenagers Mannie reckons itll be an easy job But things rapidly start to spin out of his control pushing him closer and closer to Vancouvers finest As the two detectives hunt for their killer Mannie finds himself frantically trying to keep one step ahead 3 Hot Shots A valuable heroin consignment is lost dumped into English Bay by panicking couriers Psychopathic millionaire Gary Silk is furious and will kill to reclaim it As an example one of the men responsible must be executed Silk is on a mission to exact revenge and recklessly begins to make more enemies than ever with his increasingly cruel and bizarre behaviour Al Paterson a businessman facing bankruptcy stumbles across the heroin by accident Can he recoup his fortunes with some illicit dealing or is he out of his depth As much as he needs to keep the discovery a secret he also needs to confirm the quality of the drug and then he needs to find a buyer A bloodstained car is found abandoned Willows and Parker are called in to investigate a possible homicide there is evidence of a gunfight but no apparent victim Then a body is pulled out of the harbor and a narcotics king doublecrossing henchmen an amateur hustler and police are to converge in a shattering denouement