The Place
Published by Treeside Press Victoria B.C.Canada... Available at Amazon.ca, or in pocketbook print copy Cole's Bookstore and Chapters Books in Sudbury Ontario
An unidentified serial killer creates special rooms referred to as ‘The Place’ after being driven by uncontrollable urges murders a former lover. Imagining victims consent to indulging in erotic roles a series of women are murdered in a fashion that always protects the killer's identity. A suspicious death in an isolated Arctic community precedes the murder of a First Nation woman in the Greater City.
A city police homicide Inspector declares the victim First Nation woman is an underworld-controlled prostitute killed by a customer.
Angry at the police accusation First Nation crisis worker April Kenewabi is determined to clear the friend's name. Convincing a local newspaper reporter to interview relatives, friends, and neighbors of the murdered girl the reporter writes a story creating suspicion that a serial killer is connected to the native woman's murder. The story angers police but the newspaper city editor supports the reporter theory due to unanswered clues and unanswered factual information the police apparently overlooked.
The investigation stimulates the killer with connections to the First Nation community. He decides April will be the next visitor to ‘The Place. To deflect suspicion the killer victimizes a college student working as April’s protégé in the crisis center leaving the victim for dead in an effort to get close to the crisis worker. The student barely survives finally lending credence to the reporter and crisis worker contention a killer is stalking native women. Native community leaders publicly refute the police prostitute theory due to the attack on another local woman. April the arranges with her grandfather to have the reporter attend a Council of Elders session to request cooperation of the elders support the reporter f interviewing reserve residents to research the murdered girl's background and prove the police theory wrong.
April is asked to counsel students at the school when a disturbed reserve youth guns down a high school teacher during a personal confrontation. A local former RCMP officer now a local police detective decides to follow the trail to the killer April and the reporter feel leads to a serial killer. The new police investigation leads to a personal relationship with the former RCMP detective inadvertently forcing April to deal with personal issues originating from growing up on the reserve.
Suspicious after remembering a similar suspicious death while stationed in an Inuit community the detective is soon a supporter of the serial killer theory putting his local police career in jeopardy after publicly opposing the police prostitute murder accusation. Interviews with reserve residents results in finding a a local underworld figure that can prove the local murder victim was not a prostitute. Exposing the fact a serial killer might be operating locally panics the murderer into action.
The killer stalks and kidnaps April’s teenage daughter at a shopping center fully aware the action will bring April to ‘The Place’. Fighting to save her daughter at all cost April must be located quickly after the police officer connects the local murder to a nationwide killing spree including the death in the Inuit community.
Published by Treeside Press Victoria B.C.Canada... Available at Amazon.ca, or in pocketbook print copy Cole's Bookstore and Chapters Books in Sudbury Ontario
MINES AND BLAZING PINES.
Mines and Blazing Pines is a large print coffee table size soft cover book especially suited for gift-giving to senior readers.
Follow the lives of fictional characters involved in events and happening recorded
in the annals of Northeastern Ontario history. From surviving the 1910 Spanish River train wreck,
experiencing the collapse of an operating nickel mine to battling one of the province's most
fierce forest fires in 1948. Travel with a family of outdoor adventurers through Ontario's Killarney Mountains before the area was designated a provincial park .Experience the emergence of a professional hockey player dealing with teen problems and romance in while playing junior hockey. Stories in Mines and Blazing Pines bring the readers into the story.
Follow the lives of fictional characters involved in events and happening recorded
in the annals of Northeastern Ontario history. From surviving the 1910 Spanish River train wreck,
experiencing the collapse of an operating nickel mine to battling one of the province's most
fierce forest fires in 1948. Travel with a family of outdoor adventurers through Ontario's Killarney Mountains before the area was designated a provincial park .Experience the emergence of a professional hockey player dealing with teen problems and romance in while playing junior hockey. Stories in Mines and Blazing Pines bring the readers into the story.
