Great first book in a series, will definitely follow it through. Best way to describe it, is as the Canadian [slightly more street wise] answer to Columbo. All through the audiobook, the author slides from different viewpoints, gives a great picture of Canadian everyday life, is mainly positive a...
Terence Wyler is involved in a messy divorce when he is brutally murdered. His wife is arrested and charged with his murder. When she's given a chance to plead out in exchange for a charge of manslaughter, she refuses and her trial uncovers a number of closely-held secrets. Once again, the foc...
How could Rotenberg get so lucky as to bring out this book while Rob Ford is Mayor of Toronto? Talk about yer basic horseshoes! ;-)I always enjoy Rotenberg's stories, and this one was no exception, although I felt he pulled Ari Green's behaviour to the breaking point in places. As usual, the mach...
KREITINGER SAID FROM HER PLACE AT THE lectern when everyone was back in court after the break. Greene watched Alpine walk to the witness box, his back straight. He was the kind of confident, no-nonsense police witness Crowns and juries loved. After he was sworn, Alpine adjusted his seat, placed h...
He didn’t care for team sports, preferring to run marathons, bike ride long distances, swim for miles up at the lake at his parents’ cottage. He’d never been someone with many friends, in part because as a child he’d spent so much time with his family. Even when they were adults, he and his older...
LINDSMORE SAID TO GREENE AS HE walked up to the front door of Greene’s father’s house, “I went to Timmies and bought my own double-double.” Lindsmore was in uniform. A thin briefcase, with Toronto Police Service stencilled on the side, was tucked under one of his thick arms. In his other hand he ...
But it wasn’t. His father was being remarkably calm and self-assured. He had Judge Norville eating out of his hand. That was half the battle. When DiPaulo finished his questions, Greene shifted his gaze to Angela Kreitinger. He’d been sneaking glimpses at her all through his father’s testimony. T...
Daniel Kennicott first learned this lesson in his rookie year as a cop. He was working on the case of a forty-nine-year-old pedophile named Herman Marchmount, who targeted girls between the ages of five and nine. A detective at the division suggested that Kennicott swear out a search warrant to g...