Just A Still Life - Johnson, J. Ivanel

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Résumé :
Warm up the apple crisp and cozy up to a detective mystery that has been 75 years in the making. -BestThrillers.com In the simpler times of 1971, Inspector Philip Steele, recently transferred to Fredericton, takes a well-deserved holiday visiting his beloved, elderly godmother in her quaint village nestled in the gently-rolling Appalachians of Atlantic Canada. But when a bank robbery and the murder of a teenage boy initiate a string of even more shocking events which wreak panic in the quiet community, Phil must return to long days of investigation with his oft-misquoting, black sergeant Zareb Woodbridge, who struggles with questioning some of the more racist locals. While Phil's godmother, P.J., secretly prepares her annual Harvest Moon Ritual to be used as a trap for the murderer, he himself has fallen in love with the accused: watercolorist Beth Grimball, enjoying new-found 'freedom' albeit in a jail cell. Phil finds he is not only urgently compelled to solve the crimes because it's his job, but to save the lives of those he has always loved. And those he has just begun to. First in the new Just (e)State mysteries series, the following books are prequels to Just A STILL LIFE....

Biographie:
J. Ivanel Johnson is the pen name for a disabled author/playwright who now resides on a remote farm in the Appalachians of New Brunswick. She strives always to write about marginalized and culturally-diverse characters, many based on people from the First Nations, inner city or mountain communities where she has previously lived and taught across the UK, USA and Canada.Her most recently-published fiction includes 2019's Iron Bone, a short story about coping with disability in the groundbreaking Nothing Without Us anthology by Renaissance Press, as well as works in other literary journals and anthologies.Just A STILL LIFE is her debut novel, first outlined 75 years ago by her Ontario author-grandmother....

Sommaire:
Warm up the apple crisp and cozy up to a detective mystery that has been 75 years in the making. -BestThrillers.com In the simpler times of 1971, Inspector Philip Steele, recently transferred to Fredericton, takes a well-deserved holiday visiting his beloved, elderly godmother in her quaint village nestled in the gently-rolling Appalachians of Atlantic Canada. But when a bank robbery and the murder of a teenage boy initiate a string of even more shocking events which wreak panic in the quiet community, Phil must return to long days of investigation with his oft-misquoting, black sergeant Zareb Woodbridge, who struggles with questioning some of the more racist locals. While Phil's godmother, P.J., secretly prepares her annual Harvest Moon Ritual to be used as a trap for the murderer, he himself has fallen in love with the accused: watercolorist Beth Grimball, enjoying new-found 'freedom' albeit in a jail cell. Phil finds he is not only urgently compelled to solve the crimes because it's his job, but to save the lives of those he has always loved. And those he has just begun to. First in the new Just (e)State mysteries series, the following books are prequels to Just A STILL LIFE....