This is what a reader from the United States wrote: “WOW! What an amazing and fun to read book! Packed with interesting characters and intersecting story lines that weave in and out of the main plot:) You did it again. I LOVED it and as is true with your other books, you’ve again kept me guessing as to ‘who done it’ till the very end (I read a lot of mysteries and generally can tell who done it well before the end, so this is a huge compliment). You can tell how much I loved it in how fast I read it!”
“The atmosphere and descriptions were so wonderfully developed that I had a hard time putting it down. If you are craving a mystery with a depth of story, character, and plot, this is definitely one to read.”
From Susannes Book List. Read the entire review here.
Available November 9, 2020. Preorder now.
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A short introduction:
A remote farm in Canada`s wilderness. A man`s lifeless body in the grass. The rooms in the farm house splattered with blood. Three children, brutally murdered. No trace of their mother.
Five years ago, family lawyer Tessa Griffins fled to Vancouver from the isolated mining town of Whatou Lake. Now she returns to her parents’ home there in order to search for the dead children’s mother, her stepsister Fran. And she wants to find the killer – just as Detective Sergeant Ron Halprin does, head of a special RCMP unit in Vancouver who is sent to Whatou Lake, to solve the case.
Tessa is stonewalled everywhere. What secrets does her father, the respected town doctor, have? And why does her mother, who had welcomed many foster children into their home, suddenly stop telling the whole truth? Does Fran lead a secret life? And why of all people is it Tessa’s former boyfriend, Tsaytis Chelin from the Sitklat’l First Nation, who finds the dead bodies? On the third day, Tessa makes a gruesome discovery. As she crosses the wilderness on the track of the murderer, she finds herself under a deadly threat.
Bernadette Calonego, a Swiss-Canadian author whose crime novels have been translated into English, has lived in Canada for over twenty years. She splits her time between Vancouver, British Columbia, and Newfoundland. Her stories are inspired by the wilderness and expeditions to the North.