Book description
Someone walked up to Joe "Shoe" Schumacher's best friend,
Patrick O'Neill, in a Vancouver restaurant and shot him dead. It looks
like a professional hit, but who wanted O'Neill dead? Was it, as
police believe, a "settling of accounts"? Was it Victoria,
O'Neill's beautiful but damaged wife? Or was it O'Neill's boss,
industrialist William Hammond, with whom O'Neill had a falling-out and
with whom Victoria had once had a short-lived affair? Former cop,
chauffeur, and bodyguard Joe Shoe sets out to find Patrick's killer,
and along the way he uncovers dark secrets going back years -secrets
some people will kill to keep.
Michael Blair is a freelance technical writer/editor living in
Montreal. Overexposed is his third mystery, a sequel to If
Looks Could Kill, a finalist for the 1999 Chapters/Robertson
Davies Prize and shortlisted for the 2001 Quebec Writers Federation
First Book Prize. His second mystery, A Hard Winter Rain, was
published by Dundurn in 2004.
