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In the Shadow of the Glacier - September 2007 from Poisoned Pen Press

Trouble is brewing in the small, bucolic mountain town of Trafalgar, British Columbia. An American who came to Trafalgar as a Vietnam War draft dodger has left land and money to the town but there’s a catch: the money must be used to build a garden to honor draft dodgers. This bequest has torn the close-knit, peaceful town apart. Then the body of a leading opponent is found in an alley, dead from a single blow to the head.

Constable Molly Smith is assigned to assist veteran Detective Sergeant John Winters in the investigation. But Winters doesn’t want the help of the enthusiastic rookie, and suspects that he’s been assigned Smith for political reasons – her mother, a life-long activist, is the leader of the group arguing for the park.

Egged on by a muck-raking TV personality, outside agitators from both sides are soon streaming into Trafalgar, while Smith and Winters search through small-town secrets for a killer.

Winters is haunted by a recent failure of judgment, and Smith just wants to be a good cop, and a good daughter, in a town where “a substantial number of the residents had seen her performing as Number Two Wise Man in the Grade Three Christmas pageant.”

In the Shadow of the Glacier is the first in first in a traditional mystery series featuring Constable Smith, Sergeant Winters, and the town in the shadow of the glacier, Trafalgar British Columbia.

June, 2006 from Poisoned Pen Press: Burden of Memory

Burden of Memory is available in Paperback at at selected Chapters/Indigo stores, many independent bookstores (if not in stock, most bookstores will place an order on request) and places such as Amazon.com or Amazon.ca

Burden of Memory is also available in Large Print Trade Paperback

September 1939. A beautiful Irish maid realizes that her scheming has led to a fatal mistake. A strong-willed nursing sister prepares to head for Europe, and war.

September 2006. A biographer arrives at a grand, historic cottage on Muskoka’s Millionaires’ Row to assist the matriarch of the wealthy Madison family with the writing of her memoirs.

Moira Madison was born to a luxurious childhood, raised between the wars as the pampered daughter of a wealthy family. But she was determined to make her own life for herself and served as a Nursing Sister in the Canadian Army during World War Two and international aid worker for many years after. Her story is a fascinating one, her personality even more so, and Elaine Benson is eager to dive into the research. But the original biographer died her first week on the job, and something is moving in the dark woods beyond reach of the sparkling lights of the great home. Read more