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Detective Murdoch
McClelland & Stewart
May 2007
On Sale: May 1, 2007
352 pages
ISBN: 0771043384
EAN: 9780771043383
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Mystery Police Procedural | Thriller Crime
The abduction of a young woman in 1858 ends in Toronto thirty-eight years later β in murder.
In 1858, a young woman on her honeymoon is forcibly abducted and taken across the border from Canada and sold into slavery. Thirty-eight years later, Detective Murdoch is working on a murder case that will take all of his resourcefulness to solve. The owner of one of Torontoβs livery stables has been found dead. He has been horsewhipped and left hanging from his wrists in his tack room, and his wife claims that a considerable sum of money has been stolen. Then a second man is also murdered, his body strangely tied as if he were a rebellious slave. Murdoch has to find out whether Torontoβs small βcolouredβ community has a vicious murderer in its midst β an investigation that puts his own life in danger.
Maureen Jenningsβs trademark in her popular and acclaimed Detective Murdoch series is to reveal a long-forgotten facet about life in the city that dispels any notion that it really ever was βToronto the Good.β As well, in A Journeyman to Grief, an exceptionally well plotted and engrossing story, she shows just how a great harm committed in the past can erupt fatally in the present.
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