The Darkening Archipelago (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
Her first impression was most often correct, her first impulse the one she should follow. But given sufficient time to brood, she could find a hundred reasons to second-guess her intuition and jump to all manner of erroneous conclusions. The drive from Edmonton to High River takes about four hours if Calgary’s main highway, Deerfoot Trail, isn’t backed up with commuter traffic. Intuition told her to let the proverbial sleeping dogs lie. Cole Blackwater was a dog that should just be left to doze through his life — as he did so well, Nancy thought. Before clearing Edmonton’s city limits, she had twice almost turned around. But the longer she drove the more she second-guessed her intuition, and by Airdrie, hundreds of kilometres south of Edmonton, she had convinced herself of a massive cover-up of Henry Blackwater’s death, and also that she was the one to get to the bottom of it. That morning the lack of traffic on the Deerfoot allowed Nancy Webber to sail down to High River at a nice prairie coast of one hundred and twenty kilometres per hour.
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