Where the Bodies Lie

✍ Scribed by Mark Lisac

• Publisher: NeWest Press
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 183 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1926455525

✦ Synopsis

A finalist for the Best First Novel Award at the Arthur Ellis Awards

"Sins don't destroy people here. Dreams do."

Enter the premier's old friend Harry Asher--lawyer, former hockey star, self-styled intellectual, and recent divorcé--who is hired to dig into the incident. And it isn't long before Asher's investigation threatens to expose a chain of corruption that implicates many of the province's most powerful citizens--including the province's legendary now-senile ex-premier--as well as its most cherished founding myths.

In Where the Bodies Lie , Mark Lisac (author of Alberta Politics Uncovered and The Klein Revolution) draws upon his decades of experience as a reporter at Alberta's provincial legislature to craft an absorbing debut novel--part political thriller, part fable--that opens up timeless themes of friendship, love, the inescapability of grief, the weight of history, and the nature of...