After-Image : A Vicky Bauer Mystery - Softcover

Gom, Leona

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0929005910 ISBN 13: 9780929005911

Publisher: Second Story Press, 1996

Synopsis

Vicky and her husband are in Germany, living on a Canadian Armed Forces Base. Vicky discovers a body. But when she reports it, the body has disappeared and the police think she has imagined it. Vicky's sleuthing uncovers drug dealing, homophobia and sexism at work in her community and solving the mystery becomes even more important when she realizes her own life is in danger.

About this title

About the Author:

About the Author: Leona Gom is a West Coast writer, poet and former university instructor, and the author of the Vicky Bauer Mystery series. Her novels, poems and short stories have been published in England, Europe, the US, Australia and New Zealand. Two of her plays have been produced for radio in North America. Born in rural Alberta, she now lives in White Rock, British Columbia.

From Kirkus Reviews:

Vicky Bauer, part American Indian, lives with her much older, German-born husband Conrad near the Canadian Army base at Lahr, Germany. Conrad is an exchange teacher at an Army school; Vicky struggles to write her M.A. thesis on women in filmdom and to stay off the booze that's earned her a reputation as unreliable. One day, stopping to take pictures driving a bicycle ride through the woods, Vicky sees a man in an army uniform shoot his companion--a blond woman wearing a pearl-embroidered sweater. No body or blood traces are found by the military police, to whom Vicky reports the incident. Meanwhile, Andrew Pilski, a captain married to Annie, Vicky's best friend and confidante, promises, perfunctorily, to investigate. Conrad, whose German roots seem to be unpleasantly asserting themselves, appears detached, even when someone drives a car into Vicky, on her bike, causing minor injuries. There will be an unsigned threatening note, a stolen photograph, Vicky's sighting of another woman wearing an identical sweater to the murdered woman's at the same spot in the woods, and a lot more, before Vicky, her life on the line, is saved in a last-second rescue that raises more questions than it answers. A troubled prickly heroine whose musings run the psychobabble gamut in a competently written story by Gom (The Y Chromosome, not reviewed) with a downbeat aura and an unhackneyed background more compelling than its convoluted plot. -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Second Story Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0929005910
• ISBN 13: 9780929005911
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 257