Open Season

by Peter Kirby

Overview

A Guatemalan journalist is kidnapped, and the only message from her kidnappers is the murder of her lawyer. In a race against time, Luc Vanier sets about reconstructing her life, through the sordid world of human trafficking, the secretive underbelly of a multinational mining corporation, and the hiding places of desperate refugees. When Vanier is brutally warned off the investigation, he throws away the rule book and goes after the villains with a vengeance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781927535790
Publisher:	Linda Leith Publishing
Publication date:	09/12/2015
Series:	Luc Vanier Series , #3
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	280
File size:	895 KB

About the Author

Peter Kirby was born in Ireland and grew up in the hardscrabble neighbourhood of Brixton in South London. He came to Canada as a cook, went to university at night, and eventually became a lawyer. He now practises international law in one of Canada’s largest law firms and has been recognized as one of Canada’s leading 500 lawyers. His thrillers, all part of the Luc Vanier series and published by Linda Leith Publishing, include The Dead of Winter (2012), Open Season (2015) and Vigilante Season (2013). He lives in Montreal.

Editorial Reviews

11/16/2015
In Kirby's third Luc Vanier mystery (after The Dead of Winter), Luc, an inspector detective with the Montreal police, leads the investigation into the kidnapping of Sophia Luna, a Guatemalan journalist who was struggling to remain in Canada after her refugee claim was rejected. She was working on a story about human trafficking, and following that lead takes Luc and his fellow detectives Saint Jacques and Laurent into that very dark underworld. A parallel plot line throughout much of the book tells the story of Katya Babyak, a young woman from the Ukraine who agreed to be smuggled into Canada on the promise of a job as a nanny. Instead, when she arrived in Montreal, she was held hostage and forced to work as a prostitute. The two storylines come together in a tense thriller mixing ruthless criminals, corrupt politicians, and danger that threatens Luc's family and drives the veteran policeman to go beyond the limits of the law. Kirby's other career as a lawyer lends the book a gritty realism and informs some sharp political observations about the plight of migrant people. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly

Is it too early in the series to call Open Season a breakout novel? Kirby's two previous Vanier stories were also deftly crafted, well-told tales, but his latest work steps up the intrigue several notches, resulting in a perfectly plotted, nicely paced, edge-of-your seat thriller that also has gravitas; and it has all the earmarks of a winner. Open Season may quite possibly be one of the best Canadian crime novels of 2015. Montreal Review of Books, Summer 2015.

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