Shaded Light: The Case of the Tactless Trophy Wife - Couverture souple

Menzies, J. A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1927692318 ISBN 13 : 9781927692318

Editeur : Murder Will Out, 2016

Synopsis

A hot July weekend. A house party at the Toronto estate of a well-known lawyer and his wife. And a mystifying murder.

The original plan was for a cozy weekend with a touch of match-making. But from the moment people begin to arrive, everything goes wrong. After a guest's body is discovered in one of the gardens, could it get any worse?

Toronto Homicide Inspector Paul Manziuk desperately needed a weekend off after hitting yet another dead end in his search for a serial killer, but he's the best person to handle an important case like this.

To make matters worse, he's forced to work Jacquie Ryan, a newly-promoted female constable who, according to office gossip, owes her upward move to an affirmative action mandate. Can the experienced investigator and his rookie partner unravel the clues and find the culprit hiding in plain sight?

Shaded Light: The Case of the Tactless Trophy Wife is the first novel in a series of classic-style whodunits set in modern-day Toronto. If you like warm-hearted mysteries filled with fascinating characters, witty dialogue, and plot twists, get this book today!

"Like Agatha Christie, Menzies spends a lot of time developing a believable web of personal relationships before introducing the murders... He’s white, an abrupt, patronizing veteran, while she’s a recently promoted, vivacious black woman—but...the two rub elbows and tempers to captivating effect.” PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mysteries have been my books of choice since I discovered Trixie Belden (I owned every book) and other teen detectives. Later, I discovered and devoured the work of Erle Stanley Gardner, John Creasey, Agatha Christie, Georgette Heyer, Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy L. Sayers, Desmond Bagley, Raymond Chandler, Emma Lathen, and others. I still go back and reread many of the authors of the British Golden Age—they’re my comfort-books. I also read a variety of contemporary authors, including Donna Andrews, Louise Penny, Alan Bradley, Sue Grafton, Peter Robinson, Rick Blechta, Vicki Delany, P. D. James, Marcia Muller, and T. Jefferson Parker. I’m a member of various writers’ organizations, including Sisters in Crime and Crime Writers of Canada. I also teach workshops for writers. I especially enjoy sharing some of my secrets on developing plots. (One of my favorite reviews, from Library Journal, called me a “master of plotting.”) By the way, in real life, people know me as N. J. Lindquist. And my first two mysteries (Shaded Light and Glitter of Diamonds) were originally published under that name. Afterwards, I decided that I really needed to separate the mysteries from my other books, so—better late than never (I hope)—I made my birth name (J. A. Menzies) my alter ego

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Murder Will Out
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1927692318
• ISBN 13: 9781927692318
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 392
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