Blood Red Summer

by Wayne Arthurson Narrated by Mike Barrington

Overview

Métis journalist Leo Desroches has just been released from jail. Fortunately for him, he is re-hired at the paper to write a popular column about crime. It's summer, the city is hot and buzzing with mosquitoes and it's on track for a record number of homicides.<,/p>

Called to the scene of an apparent overdose of a young Native man in the inner city, Leo witnesses some rocks falling out of the body bag, and he picks them up. At first he believes they are crack cocaine but discovers that the rocks are really rough diamonds. As he digs deeper into the story, he finds that the victim was a highly trained mudlogger at one of the new diamond mines in Canada's High Arctic. Leo gets dragged into a deadly conflict between the mining companies and a murderous Native street gang, who are fighting for control of the development of another diamond mine.

Caught in the middle of this billion-dollar conflict, Leo is also battling his own demons and fears. Will he get out of this struggle alive?

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

To the august company of Alan Bradley's Flavia de Luce and Alexander McCall Smith's Prescious Ramotswe we can now add Edmonton writer Wayne Arthurson's Leo Desroches.--Quill and Quire

Fall From Grace unfolds slowly and deliberately. It isn't a pedal-to-the-metal thriller: it's altogether deeper than that - a novel that works splendidly as both a mystery and a character study. --Quill and Quire

[Fall From Grace] exudes wicked energy kept under stern control ...highly charged, stunningly written set pieces... This is a genrebender, its twists all the more startling for being unexpected.

--Booklist

Arthurson slowly pulls in all the elements to conjure the writing of a feature story, but his pace picks up exponentially, and this makes for a very satisfying debut...Highly recommended. --Library Journal (Starred Review)

PRAISE FOR WAYNE ARTHURSON'S LEO DESCROCHES MYSTERY SERIES:

[Fall From Grace] exudes wicked energy kept under stern control ...highly charged, stunningly written set pieces... This is a genrebender, its twists all the more startling for being unexpected.

-- Booklist

[Fall From Grace] makes for a very satisfying debut...Highly recommended. -- Library Journal (Starred Review)

Fall From Grace unfolds slowly and deliberately. It isn't a pedal-to-the-metal thriller: it's altogether deeper than that - a novel that works splendidly as both a mystery and a character study. To the august company of Alan Bradley's Flavia de Luce and Alexander McCall Smith's Prescious Ramots, we we can now add Edmonton writer Wayne Arthurson's Leo Desroches.-- Quill and Quire

Product Details

BN ID:	2940173744715
Publisher:	ECW Press
Publication date:	11/06/2018
Series:	Leo Desroches , #3
Edition description:	Unabridged

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