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The Ambitious City

✍ Scribed by Scott Thornley


Publisher
Random House of Canada
Year
2012
Tongue
en-US
Weight
231 KB
Category
Fiction

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


The eagerly anticipated 2nd book in his MacNeice series from acclaimed World of Crime novelist Scott Thornley.

If a local biker war isn't enough--7 shrink-wrapped corpses found buried between the barns on a nearby farm--MacNeice receives a desperate phone call from his old friend, the mayor of Dundurn. Dredging is nearly completed on the ambitious waterfront project the mayor hopes will revive his mini rust belt of a city, but the whole thing may be about to come off the rails: the dredgers have turned up 6 more bodies at the bottom of the lake, and 2 of them, encased in concrete, are fairly fresh. The mayor wants MacNeice to fix things, discreetly and fast. The trouble is there is another "visionary" on the loose in Dundurn, a serial killer who wants to rid the city of high-achieving young women of colour.

With the body count rising, the usually super-competent Detective Superindent MacNeice feels outgunned by the bikers, outmaneuvered by the serial killer--and...


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