Book description
For Joe Shoe, the return to his family home in north Toronto is more
than just a trip down memory lane; it's also a visit to a crime scene.
No sooner has Shoe arrived in his old neighbourhood than he discovers
that police are investigating a murder in the ravine near his home.
And the murder victim is a man who lived in the neighbourhood 35 years
earlier -- and who moved away while still a suspect in a series of
rapes that occurred in the very ravine in which he was ultimately murdered.
The police investigation, and Shoe's own inquiries, becomes intensely
personal, as old friends, girlfriends, and even family members seem to
have a connection to the murder victim, and reasons to want him dead.
Compelling, deeply emotional, and at times even disturbing, The
Dells is an accomplished novel by one of Canada's rising stars of
crime fiction.
"Shoe is a most likable character and it is a pleasure to
reminisce with him, until the truth is discovered and hist home. This is
a good one."
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.
