Strait Over Tackle

Name: Strait Over Tackle
Brand: Findaway Voices
Availability: InStock
Author: Colin Conway
ISBN: 9781961030183

Author: Colin Conway

Series: The Flip-Flop Detective #1

Narrator: John D. Parker

Unabridged: 7 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: High Speed Creative, LLC

Published: 06/15/2024

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Amateur Sleuth, Private Investigators, Humorous

Synopsis

Rule #1 - Only be where flip-flops can be worn.Former deputy Sam Strait lives his life by a particular set of rules. They provide him freedom to do the things he wants where he wants with whom he wants. For a single man in his mid-thirties, things couldn’t get any better. Then why isn’t he happier?When Sam returns home for the summer, he discovers a stranger dead in his boat. With cops and reporters crawling over his property, gone are the usual plans of soaking up the sun and whiling away the days in the arms of a beautiful woman. Instead, Sam embarks on journey to solve the mysterious death.Soon, he’s being followed, harassed, and assaulted by figures demanding the return of something he had no idea he possessed. Sam would have been better to stay away for the summer, but he couldn’t have. He had to return home. The rules demanded it.Strait Over Tackle is the first book in an exciting new series from the author of the 509 Crime Stories and the co-author of the Charlie-316 series.If you like your crime fiction with a dose of humor, then pick up this book today!(NOTE: The Flip-Flop Detective occurs in the same world as the 509 Crime Stories. The first book in that series is The Side Hustle.)

Reviews

Goodreads review by Cathy on July 18, 2021

Strait Over Tackle by Colin Conway A Flip-Flop Detective Novel #1 We meet Sam Strait flying home from Hawaii with his flip-flops on. He seems a bit aloof and standoffish with his list of rules and ability to keep his shoulder cold too others. That said, he was an intriguing and different character wit......more

Goodreads review by Jenna on May 14, 2021

2.5 stars Sam Strait is a former deputy who now lives by several rules. Rule #1 Only be where flip-flops can be worn. The character is a laid back guy who spends his time b/w his lake home in Spokane County, WA and other warm weather locales. I thought this sounded like an interesting character detail.......more

Goodreads review by Dickensfan on June 15, 2021

Very funny Sam is a guy who doesn't want to settle down. He returns to Spokane for the summer after a sojourn in Hawaii and becomes embroiled in a murder.......more

Goodreads review by Heather on August 01, 2023

In this thrilling mystery novel, Sam Strait is a laid-back former sheriff’s deputy who loves the sun. He spends his summer in the house he grew up in, the same house his father grew up in, on a lake in Washington. He lives his life by a set of rules. One of which is don’t eat where you can’t wear fl......more

Goodreads review by Lori on June 18, 2021

Fabulous crime drama Rules to live by cracked me up, the antagonist/ protagonist(s) kept me interested and the fact that at 93% read, I still hadn’t figured out who committed the crime- these facts all kept me from putting the book down until I read the last page. Good read. I’ll look up his other b......more