Book description
Inspector Green explores a web of betrayal and deceit. In the dead of
night, the phone rings in the missing persons unit of the Ottawa Police.
A brutal blizzard is howling, and a wealthy social activist has not
heard from his fiance in over twenty-four hours. Friends, family and
police are mobilized to search the snowbound city. He comes to believe
that his partner is fleeing for her life, possibly from his own family.
When a frozen body is found in the snow, just blocks from the mans home,
Green knows that someone is conspiring to keep the truth hidden.
Barbara Fradkin was born in Montreal and attended McGill, the University
of Toronto and the University of Ottawa, where she obtained her PhD in
psychology. Her work as a child psychologist has provided ample
inspiration and insight for plotting murders, and she recently left
full-time practice in order to be able to devote more time to writing.
Barbara has an affinity for the dark side, and her compelling short
stories haunt several anthologies and magazines, including Storyteller,
Iced (Insomniac Press, 2001), and the Ladies Killing Circle anthologies,
including Fit to Die, Bone Dance and When Boomers Go Bad, published by
RendezVous Press. Her detective series features the exasperating,
infuriating Ottawa Inspector Michael Green, whose love of the hunt often
interferes with family, friends and police protocol. The series includes
Do or Die (2000), Once Upon a Time (2002), Mist Walker (2003), and Fifth
Son (Fall 2004). Once Upon a Time was nominated for Best Novel at the
Arthur Ellis Awards, Canada's top crime writing awards, and her latest
title, Fifth Son won this prestigious award in 2005. The fifth in the
series, Honour Among Men, (2006), repeated the honour, the only time
that consecutive novels by the same author have won the award. The sixth
and seventh novels, Dream Chasers and This Thing of Darkness, followed
in 2007 and 2009.
