The Red Chesterfield

✍ Scribed by Wayne Arthurson

• Book ID: 100681435
• Publisher: University of Calgary Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: en-CA
• Weight: 59 KB
• Series: Brave & brilliant 11
• Category: Fiction
• City: Calgary, Alberta
• ISBN: 1773850806

✦ Synopsis

"M is a bylaw officer, living with two brothers, in their parent's old house. While investigating a suspicious yard sale, M discovers a red chesterfield sitting in a ditch. Looking closer, M finds a running shoe--and a severed foot. Now M is involved in a murder investigation. Meanwhile, older brother K's work for a new political party begins to seem suspicious, while younger brother J navigates the complicated world of young-adulthood, and boss Rhonda demands more and more attention, M must navigate a world of Russian gangsters and neglected wives, biker gangs and suspicious coincidences. On top of everything else, M is determined to track down the owner of that red chesterfield and make sure they get a ticket. "The Red Chesterfield" is a delightful, unusual novel that upends the tropes and traditions of crime fiction while asking how far one person is willing to go to solve a crime, be it murder or the abandonment of a piece of furniture."--

✦ Subjects

Murder -- Investigation