After surviving a horrific trauma in Nigeria, international aid worker Amanda Doucette returns to Canada to rebuild her life and her shaken ideals. There, the once-passionate, adventurous woman needs all her strength and ingenuity when a friend and fellow survivor goes missing along with his son. A
Fire in the Stars
β Scribed by Barbara Fradkin
- Publisher
- Dundurn;Cnib
- Year
- 2016;2018
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 244 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0616972776
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β¦ Synopsis
A former aid worker returns home haunted by her time in Africa and channels her pain into a murder investigation thatβs all too personal.
After surviving a horrific trauma in Nigeria, international aid worker Amanda Doucette returns to Canada to rebuild her life and her shaken ideals. There, the once-passionate, adventurous woman needs all her strength and ingenuity when a friend and fellow survivor goes missing along with his son.
A trained first-aid and crisis responder, Doucette β always accompanied by her beloved dog Kaylee β joins forces with RCMP officer Chris Tymko to discover the truth about the disappearance. Their search leads them to the Great Northern Peninsula, a rugged landscape of Viking history, icebergs, whales, and fierce ocean storms. Elsewhere, a body gets hauled up in a fishermanβs net, and evidence is mounting of an unsettling connection with Amandaβs search for her friend. Fradkin writes evocatively of the beautiful, often hostile...
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