**A celestial overseer observesβand is continually confounded byβa young womanβs path into adulthood in this uncanny and darkly humorous novel, unpublished until now and accompanied by a selection of the authorβs stories.** Susan Taubesβs novella βLament for Juliaβ is the story of a young woman co
Lament for Bonnie
β Scribed by Emery, Anne
- Book ID
- 108985115
- Publisher
- ECW Press
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Series
- Collins-Burke 9
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781770411685
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
The ninth mystery in a series that "gets better with every book" (Globe and Mail)Twelve-year-old Bonnie MacDonald -- the beloved stepdancing, fiddling youngest member of Cape Breton's famed Clan Donnie band -- vanishes after a family party. There was no stranger spotted lurking around, but no one thinks for one minute that Bonnie ran away. Maura MacNeil, cousin to Clan Donnie, offers her husband's legal services to the family as the police search for the missing girl. But fame attracts some strange characters and Clan Donnie has groupies. So, it turns out, does lawyer and bluesman Monty Collins.Monty and Maura's daughter, Normie, is much closer to the action as she gets to know her cousins, learns things she wishes she never had, and has nightmares -- visions? -- that bring her no closer to finding Bonnie. Her spooky great-grandmother makes no secret of the fact that she senses the presence of evil in their village -- the kind of evil RCMP Sergeant...
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