"The Goldfish Bowl" by Laurence Gough is the first book in the Willows and Parker mystery series. The story follows Detective Jack Willows and his new partner, Claire Parker, as they investigate a serial sniper terrorizing the streets of Vancouver. The sniper targets seemingly random victims, and as they work to solve the case, they uncover a carefully planned series of murders.
Laurence Gough resides in Vancouver, British Columbia, the city and its scenic surroundings providing the backdrop to his novels. A playwright as well as a novelist, he has had more than fifty plays broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, while his fiction has garnered a number of awards, including Arthur Ellis Awards for Best First Novel and Best Crime Novel of the Year and an Author Award from the Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Letters.
