David Mulholland

In the Shadow of the Assassin (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

April 7, 1868, Ottawa, Ontario, Dominion of Canada

Around 2:30am., following a late night sitting in the House of Commons, Thomas D'Arcy McGee, MP for the riding of Montreal West, is waiting for Mary Ann Trotter to open the locked door of her Sparks Street Boarding House when someone comes up behind him and shoots him in the back of the head.

Shortly after 6:00am., blacksmith Pat Byrne is opening his Metcalfe Street shop when a rider pulls up with news of the assassination.

Growing up in Howarth, a village near Dublin, Byrne has been following McGee's chequered career. Now, with the Ottawa police investigating, and visitors to his smithy speculating on rumours as to whom the assassin might be, he recalls McGee's part, his own, and the Fenian Brotherhood's numerous attempts to repeal the 1801 Act of Union with Britain and return Ireland to an independent country.

Those memories are intertwined with his courtship and amorous marriage to Caitlin, a free-spirited midwife whose ideas about Irish independence - and marriage - often clash with his own.

David Mulholland's fourth novel of dramatized history asks the question: Who assassinated Canada's youngest Father of Confederation?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Burnstown Publishing House
• Seitenzahl: 122
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781772573923
• Artikelnr.: 70088801

Autorenporträt

David Mulholland was born in Kingston, Ontario and raised in the Ottawa Valley town of Arnprior. He moved to Ottawa in 1970.Mulholland began his writing career as an advertising copywriter in private radio. He went on to work as a researcher, story editor, and occasional interviewer for CBC Public Affairs television; a general-assignment reporter and music reviewer for the Ottawa Citizen; a syndicated country-music columnist; a part-time stand up comedian with Yuk Yuk's; and a speech writer for a number of departments in the federal government.During those years, Mulholland wrote fiction when time permitted. In the spring of 2001, he began devoting full-time to writing a novel. The result is McNab, published in October 2006. Duel, his second novel of dramatized history, was published in October 2009. Chaudiere Falls, published in November 2016, is his third. In the Shadow of the Assassin, his fourth. He is currently working on a book of short stories based upon characters in the Ottawa Valley.