Chris Laing

A Family Matter (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"The last person I wanted to see again was my mother. But she turned up anyway"

In this, the third book in the Max Dexter mystery series, Max's mother returns to Hamilton after an absence of twenty-some years. Max is not anxious to meet with her why should he after she'd abandoned him as a child?

To make matters worse, Max and his assistant, Isabel O'Brien, are still in the cross-hairs of crime boss, Dominic Tedesco, who's looking to even the score from their last meeting.

But a bigger question looms: Is Max's mother involved in an internal Mob war now heating up and about to explode?
Now, a week before Christmas in 1947, Max and Isabel are feeling the heat from those dark forces who don't believe in "Peace on Earth".

"Chris Laing's latest book, 'A Family Matter', is the third in his series on Hamilton private eye Max Dexter. From the first page it picks you up and drops you down into the Hamilton of 1947. With vivid writing and an encyclopaedic knowledge of what was going on in post-war Hamilton Laing transports you to a real place where you can almost taste the food and feel the grit. For anyone who likes crime fiction and local history this is the ideal read. I couldn't put it down." Margaret Houghton, Hamilton author and historian
"1940s Hamilton obviously lives again, thanks to your writing." Stewart Brown, former entertainment reporter for 'The Hamilton Spectator' and author of 'Brant Inn Memories'.

The Max Dexter Mystery Series includes: 'A Private Man' (2012), 'A Deadly Venture' (2014), 'A Family Matter' (2017) and 'A Devious Dame' (2019).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chris Laing
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781989670040
• Artikelnr.: 70545580

Autorenporträt

Chris Laing is a native of Hamilton, Ontario. He worked in private business for twenty years before joining the Federal Public Service, where he served in the Department of the Secretary of State and National Museums of Canada until his retirement.
In the past few years he has expanded his long-time interest in detective stories from that of avid reader to writing in this genre. His short stories have appeared in a number of literary journals. His first novel, "A Private Man", was published by Seraphim Editions in 2012 and it was a finalist for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Crime Novel. His second novel in the Max Dexter series, "A Deadly Venture", also set in Hamilton in the 1940's, was published in Sept 2014 and won the Kerry Scooley Award from the Hamilton Arts Council in 2015. It was followed by "A Family Matter" in 2017 and "A Devious Dame" in 2019. He is now at work on the next adventure of Max and Isabel.
"West End Kid" is a collection of short stories based loosely on his experiences growing up in Hamilton during World War II.