Crime Writers of the Canadian Plains

Crime Writers from Alberta surf the Coastal Crime Wave at Bloody Words 2011.
With support from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Anne and Jayne profile the authors, the books, the panels and the people at Canada's only national crime writers convention.

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Illegally Dead - Joan Donaldson-Yarmey

Illegally Dead
Joan Donaldson-Yarmey
Sumach Press


This isn't the first time travel-writer Elizabeth Oliver finds herself smack in the middle of a murder investigation. Crime seems to follow her around as closely as her cockapoo companion Chevy.

Determined to focus entirely on her work this trip, she sets out to explore the length of Alberta's Crowsnest Highway to research a new travel article. But no sooner has she settled into travel-writing mode than she is flagged down at a roadside crime scene. Human bones have just been discovered in an old septic tank on a property slated to be used for a new hog barn development.

Resisting the temptation to get involved, she arrives at her B&B only to find that her hostess' mother Peggy used to own the septic tank property, and may know more about the situation than she's letting on.



Copies of this book were handed out courtesy of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and Owl's Nest Books.

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