Christine Morris has been sent to Edinburgh to attend a conference on the latest in police methodology. There she is tracked down by the Northern Constabulary, Stornoway, Outer Hebrides, who inform her that her estranged mother has been involved in a vehicular homicide and has gone missing. Reluc...
After thirteen-year-old Agnes Fisher faints at school, her teacher, the young and still idealistic Amy Slade, is shocked to discover in the girl’s desk two stereoscopic photographs. One is of a dead baby in its cradle, and on the back Agnes has scrawled a terrible message. Worse, the other photog...
The compelling new novel by Canada’s answer to Anne Perry.In his forties, the Reverend Charles Howard still cut an impressive figure. A married Presbyterian minister in Toronto’s east end, Howard was popular with the congregation that elected him, especially with the ladies, and most particularly...
The abduction of a young woman in 1858 ends in Toronto thirty-eight years later — in murder.In 1858, a young woman on her honeymoon is forcibly abducted and taken across the border from Canada and sold into slavery. Thirty-eight years later, Detective Murdoch is working on a murder case that will...
I honestly admit, I'm a bit confused by this book. On the one hand, I really like it, but on the other, I am quite annoyed with it. Let me brake it down into what worked and what didn't. Warning, here there be spoilers!What worked:The attention to detail. This book is slow, building on the minuti...
In this third adventure featuring the lovable detective William Murdoch, he becomes involved with the apparent suicide of Constable Oliver Wicken – a man who was the sole support of his mother and invalid sister. But further investigation by Detective Murdoch takes him far afield and he begins to...
Toronto Detective William Murdoch has a lot on his mind; his sister, Sister Philomena, is dying. His father, from whom he has long been estranged, has been convicted of murdering a man over gambling debts in a dog fight ... and then there is the lovely widow Enid Jones, for whom he has been pinin...
There was a large metal filing cabinet against one wall, a good-sized table with a typewriter and telephone, and a couple of wooden chairs. Apart from the simple wooden cross on the wall, it could have been any strictly functional business room.Tyler sat down and took out his cigarette case. “Wou...
Nevertheless, bright and chipper, he was waiting for Tyler in the canteen at breakfast. “What do you think you are, Eager? Young?” “Er, yes, sir. Sorry, sir.” They had weak tea and toast made palatable by the scones Eagleton had brought with him from Sergeant Gough’s wife. “That woman is a nation...
Sam and Tim had a small room at the back of the Mohan house. There was only one sagging double bed, which they had to share, and the meagre furniture was scruffy, but boarding with Mrs. Mohan suited them. He walked over to the alarm clock and switched it off. Then he leaned over Tim and shook his...
said Amy. “It is,” answered Bill. “You must be patient. The shipwreck is coming.” Father Keegan finished drying his hands on the linen cloth and turned back to the altar. The most important part of the Mass was coming. It was called the Canon, the point from which there was no turning back. Will ...
The water closet was of mahogany and porcelain, the faucets solid brass, the towels of satin damask. Annie, mother naked, was washing herself out with a rubber douche. Fenton was most particular about using French letters, but tonight he’d been too full, too lazy to use one. In fact, Annie had ma...
“OH, TOM. IT WAS DREADFUL. THE VIOLIN IS RUINED.” Tyler and Clare were seated at a corner table of the Acton Lodge restaurant, close to the kitchen, where a large, if bedraggled, potted palm tree offered some privacy. “We all thought he’d had a heart attack at first. He’d bitten his tongue and th...
I circled the lot twice but for the life of me I couldn’t see the secret exit. The area was well organized with large signs to control the traffic flow. One Way Only as you came in, ushering all vehicles into the marked spaces. Along the outer fences were more signs, which said This Way Out. Fina...