Patrick F. McManus, Author . Simon & Schuster $24 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7432-8047-1
Prolific, popular outdoorsman and humorist McManus (The Bear in the Attic
) departs from his trademark shaggy-dog stories with this novel set in current-day Idaho, the first in a new mystery series starring Blight County sheriff Bo Tully. Single,...
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Patrick F. McManus, Author . Simon & Schuster $24 (291p) ISBN 978-1-4165-3265-1
An engaging romp that recalls the best work of Bill DeAndrea, the second Bo Tully whodunit (after 2006's The Blight Way
) from humor columnist McManus sends the Blight County, Idaho, sheriff into the mountains after local woman Blanche Wilson...
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Patrick F. McManus, Author . Simon & Schuster $24 (227p) ISBN 978-0-7432-8049-5
This gently humorous essay collection by Outdoor Life
columnist McManus (The Bear in the Attic
) explores hunting and fishing in the Pacific Northwest. As he wryly explains in “The Kind of Guy I Am,” McManus's literary persona is...
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Patrick F. McManus, Author . Simon & Schuster $24 (228p) ISBN 978-1-4391-3135-0
Lucas Kincaid, an escaped killer, is planning to get even with Blight County (Idaho) sheriff Bo Tully, who put him behind bars, in McManus's amusing third Sheriff Bo Tully mystery (after 2008's Avalanche
). Tully insists that the crazed...
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Patrick F. McManus, Author Henry Holt & Co Inc $16.95 (198p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1651-2
McManus ( The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw ) is the author of a monthly humor column for Outdoor Life ; this volume collects some of those pieces. At his best, McManus is a brilliant humorist, particularly in describing human reactions to the...
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Patrick F. McManus, Simon & Schuster, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4391-9084-5
In McManus's amusing, folksy fourth Bo Tully mystery (after 2009's The Double-Jack Murders), the 43-year-old Blight County, Idaho, sheriff is headed for his favorite remote spot to pick huckleberries when five frantic women inform him that they've...
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Patrick F. McManus, Author Henry Holt & Company $22 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7078-1
Prolific humorist Patrick McManus (The Deer on a Bicycle) offers another winsome collection of anecdotes and essays on fishing, camping, hunting and other outdoor activities and catastrophes. Childhood hijinks loom especially large in The Bear in
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Patrick F. McManus, Author Henry Holt & Company $14.95 (198p) ISBN 978-0-8050-0544-8
Fans of McManus (The Grasshopper Trap will welcome these 27 little excursions into the life of the narrator ""Pat,'' the author's alter ego. His humor is directed at fishermen, hunters, campers, gun-swappers, little boys and willful weather. All but
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Patrick F. McManus, Author Henry Holt & Company $19.95 (184p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1033-6
McManus ( The Grasshopper Trap ) has been making outdoorsmen laugh for some time now, but his new collection of writing passes a sterner test. Here he can amuse someone who's never even baited a hook. McManus's stories generally involve either the...
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Patrick F. McManus, Author Henry Holt & Company $17.95 (211p) ISBN 978-0-8050-2042-7
James Thurber, echoing Wordsworth's definition of poetry, defined humor as ``emotional chaos remembered in tranquility,'' a statement McManus ( Real Ponies Don't Go Oink! ) advances in this collection of 24 essays, most of which are reprinted from...
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Patrick F. McManus, Author Henry Holt & Company $19.95 (222p) ISBN 978-0-8050-3481-3
There's a smile or guffaw to be had on almost every page of McManus's ( The Good Samaritan Strikes Again ) collection of essays, some of which are original, others reprinted from Outdoor Life . Dealing primarily with growing up in rural Idaho, the...
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Patrick F. McManus, Author Simon & Schuster $20 (224p) ISBN 978-0-684-84440-4
Few have extracted more humor from the out-of-doors than McManus (The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw), who here presents his 13th collection of columns, most of them reprinted from Outdoor Life. His humor recalls Thurber's dictum about scenes of chaos...
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Patrick F. McManus. Skyhorse (Perseus, dist.), $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-62914-170-1
In humorist McManus’s sleepy sixth and final Bo Tully mystery (after 2013’s The Tamarack Murders), the sheriff of rural Blight County, Idaho, and his ex-sheriff father, Pap, find the body of rancher Morgan Fester, known for philandering and shooting
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