Teaser Tuesday 177: The Nail Knot

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

* Grab your current book or recent read.
* Share a few "teaser" sentences from somewhere in the book.
* BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away. You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
* Share the title and author so that other participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teaser!


Started The Nail Knot by John Galligan, a mystery by a local writer, late Saturday night. I've had this one in Mount TBR several years now, and pulled it out this weekend for a couple reading challenges at Goodreads. To be honest, I've found it a bit difficult getting into the voice of the narrator. Here's a teaser from early on in the book.

I was pushing through a stand of black willow shoots at the water’s edge when I heard what I figured first was a muskrat splashing around its den. In the dark, of course, there is always a separation between what the mind thinks and the body feels, and the sound froze me for a moment, while my pulse galloped.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Driven by tragedy, the Dog is on a quest to fish himself into oblivion—and he's nearly made it. Lumbering across America in a wounded RV, with only the promise of the next trout stream to sustain him, the Dog rolls into Black Earth, Wisconsin. And somehow, his supply of bad cigars and vodka-Tang seem insufficient when faced with a dead body, a sweaty woman, and a mysterious figure that walks on water.