Live Bait
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Live Bait
By (Author) Ted Wood
Open Road Media
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
4th September 2014
United States
Classifications
General
FIC
Physical Properties
Paperback
188
Width 133mm, Height 203mm
Description
A series character worth watching for, small-town Canadian police chief Reid Bennett and his dog tackle big city crime (Los Angeles Times).
Reid Bennett hits the mean streets of Toronto again. Because of his expertise, he (and his German shepherd, Sam, of course) is asked to bring in the vermin that has been bludgeoning nighttime security guards. And he makes the collar as advertised. So the police department asks him to stay on the case and find out who has been ordering these beatings. Reid has got to get down to business and sift through the long list of suspects. But he gets a little too involved . . . the culprits start looking for him, or at least he thinks they are. Reid must get to the bottom of this case quickly, before he becomes the next victim.
Reviews
A series character worth watching for . . . fast moving, intriguing. Los Angeles Times
Danger, fullbodied characters, and enough detail about police work and survival techniques to complement Bennetts role as the most savvy cop currently in the genre. Library Journal
Author Bio
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 Whitbys Ezra Annes House bed and breakfast in partnership with Mary. He passed away in 2019.
