The Brother of Sleep - Softcover

Maggie Wheeler

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ISBN 10: 189426391X ISBN 13: 9781894263917

Publisher: General Store Publishing House, 2004

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Farran Mackenzie couldn`t have been more surprised when Alison Perry walked into her University of Waterloo office. It had been thirty years since she had last seen her best friend in high school, and thirty years since her best friend`s father, a police officer, had been killed in the line of duty. And now Alison was asking for help in discovering who had really killed her father. Farran has doubts about helping her long-lost friend. A lifetime has passed since Alison walked out of her life with no explanation but doubt fades when a car bomb results in the death of Sergeant Perry`s old partner, nearly killing Alison and Farran, as well. Someone obviously doesn`t want them to dig up old skeletons, so Farran takes them to the only place she feels safe the St. Lawrence Seaway. But the past keeps catching up with them there, too. A fated meeting in the local cemetery with Paul Vaughn, a police officer from Newfoundland, has Farran revisiting the origins of the St. Lawrence Seaway, a journey that turned her own life upside down only a year ago, and threatens to do so again. She feels a strange attraction to Paul, whose life seems to mirror her own, but what about Jerry Strauss, the OPP inspector to whom she owes so much? Too many police officers in her life, both past and present, and too many coincidences. Farran`s heart is playing havoc with her instincts, which could prove dangerous, if not deadly. Whom can she trust? And is the truth worth the price of knowing?

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About the Author:

In the three years since the successful publication of her first novel, A Violent End, Maggie Wheeler has established herself in not one, but two, Canadian literary genres. By seamlessly merging the craft of the mystery novel with her passion for Canadian history, Maggie has become a prominent voice in the growing contemporary movement to preserve and celebrate the stories of this country. As well as her literary endeavours, Maggie continues to travel and meet with people to talk about not only the novels and the writing process, but also the emotional and cultural cost of the St. Lawrence Seaway. Her classroom lectures, symposium presentations and media interviews have sharpened the focus on Canadian history in general and the Lost Villages in particular. Maggie and her husband Robert Childerhose, a Seaway pilot, live on Ault Island, with their three daughters, ten year old Anna and eight year old twins Evan and Lindsay. They also share their home near Ingleside, Ontario, with Bagel the Beagle.

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