Book excerpt: Crooked Lake, Sask., is a small town where everyone knows everyone else's business. John (Bart) Bartowski doesn't like to poke his nose into things that don't concern him. He's got a fishing lodge to run, one that may just have to close because the government won't renew his lease. When his best friend is fired as greens-keeper at the local golf course, Bart is incensed. He's a director of the golf club, and the firing was done while he was out of town. Then the man who orchestrated the firing is beaten to death with a golf club.