Published by ECW Press,
13 June 2013.
ISBN:
978-1-77042-043-5
Chief Inspector Peter Cammon is called out of
retirement to travel to Canada
to retrieve the body of a murdered colleague. He takes the assignment reluctantly
but then gets involved in investigating the crime. He is an experienced police
man with a wealth of helpful colleagues and relations so the investigation
develops rapidly in the UK, Canada and the USA.
The murder was an
example of overkill - the man was brutally attacked, run over and dumped in a
canal yet the probable cause for his death was relatively trifling. He was
concerned with the purchase of three letters from the US Civil War which
involved John Wilkes Booth, who was eventually the assassin of Lincoln. The story is a fascinating one as
Peter copes with diplomatic personnel and University lecturers, searches for
the beautiful Alice Nahri and returns home at intervals to take his dog Jasper
for walks. The background of the letters and their significance today -
particularly in Quebec
- is fully developed. The complications of the investigation over three
countries are eventually unravelled by the inspector but not without thrills on
the way.
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Reviewer; Jennifer
Palmer
This is the
second book about Chief Inspector Peter Cammon, the first is Walking into
the Ocean.
David Whellams spent
30 years working in criminal law and amending the Criminal Code in such areas
as dangerous offenders and terrorism. Walking Into the Ocean is the
first book in this series. He lives in Ottawa,
Ontario.
Jennifer Palmer Throughout my
reading life crime fiction has been a constant interest; I really enjoyed my 15
years as an expatriate in the Far East, the Netherlands
& the USA
but occasionally the solace of closing my door to the outside world and sitting
reading was highly therapeutic. I now lecture to adults on historical topics
including Famous Historical Mysteries.
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