The abduction of a young woman in 1858 ends in Toronto thirty-eight years later -- in murder. In 1858, a young woman on her honeymoon is forcibly abducted and taken across the border from Canada and sold into slavery. Thirty-eight years later, Detective Murdoch is working on a murder case that
A Journeyman to Grief
β Scribed by Jennings, Maureen
- Book ID
- 107201752
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 199 KB
- Series
- Detective Murdoch 7
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Review
βWhen it comes to evoking a bygone era of dim gas lighting, ill-heated homes, the shenanigans of the criminal underclass and the corrupt hypocrisy of our βbetters,β Jennings has [Anne] Perry beat hands down.β
β The Calgary Herald
βJennings brings to life a violent but vital society of astonishing contradictions.β
β New York Times Book Review
βJennings has always had a fine eye for telling details and good characters.β
β Globe and Mail
About the Author
Since 1997, Maureen Jennings has written six Detective Murdoch novels: Except the Dying , shortlisted for both the Anthony and the Arthur Ellis Best First Novel Awards, Under the Dragonβs Tale , Poor Tom Is Cold , Let Loose the Dogs , shortlisted for the Anthony Best Historical Mystery Award, and Nightβs Child , shortlisted for the Arthur Ellis Award, the Bruce Alexander Historical Mystery Award, the Barry Award, and the Macavity Historical Mystery Award, and Vices of My Blood.
Three of the novels have been adapted for television, and four seasons of a television series, The Murdoch Mysteries , based on the characters from the novels, have been produced by Shaftesbury Films for CITY TV/Rogers, UKTV in Britain and distributed internationally by ITV/Granada international.
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