Lightning Strikes the Silence

Name: Lightning Strikes the Silence
Price: 8.99 EUR
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Author: Iona Whishaw
ISBN: 9781771514330

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"The best Iona Whishaw novel yet." —Castlegar NewsBeginning with a bang, the latest mystery in the series Publishers Weekly calls “highly entertaining” is a study in bygone promises and lingering prejudice.A warm June afternoon in King’s Cove is interrupted by an explosion. Following the sound, Lane goes to investigate. Up a steep path she discovers a secluded cabin and, hiding nearby, a young Japanese girl injured and mute, but very much alive.At the Nelson Police Station, Inspector Darling and Sergeant Ames, following up on a report of a nighttime heist at the local jeweller’s, discover the jeweller himself dead in his office, apparently bludgeoned, and a live wire hanging off the back of the building.As Lane attempts to speed the search for the girl’s family with her own lines of inquiry, Darling and his team dig deeper into a local connection between the jeweller and a fellow businessman that leads across the pond to Cornwall and north to a mining interest on the McKenzie River.Offices are being ransacked and someone is following Lane. Through the alleyways of Nelson onto the country roads and woods trails of King’s Cove, the latest Winslow mystery is a study in bygone promises and lingering prejudice

Iona Whishaw

**Iona Whishaw** est une auteure canadienne née en 1948 en Colombie-Britannique, élevée au Mexique et aux États-Unis. Ancienne travailleuse sociale, enseignante et directrice d’école primée, elle a obtenu un master en écriture créative à l’Université de Colombie-Britannique. Son expérience familiale — sa mère et son grand-père étaient espions — a inspiré sa série à succès **Lane Winslow**, dont *A Match Made for Murder* est le septième tome. Son style mêle **suspense, humour et profondeur historique**, ce qui lui a valu plusieurs distinctions, dont le **Bony Blithe Light Mystery Award**.