Val McDERMID. SPLINTER THE SILENCE. HarperCollins, 2019.
I am so happy to have been introduced to this Scots crime writer equally as entertaining as Ian Rankin, and with female protagonists too. My selections have been in the Carol Jordan /Tony Hill series. In this one, Carol finishes re-doing the barn, gets arrested for drunk driving, and heads the new re-MIT major incident (crime) team. As a practice-run, they uncover a previously unknown serial killer.
Catherine Hernandez. SCARBOROUGH. Arsenal, 2017.
Winner of CBC Canada Reads this year, 2022. Voices of students, parents, teachers, and administrators in a Toronto suburb. Although I am not usually a fan of stories told from a child's POV, this book is the exception. Revealing and moving.
Palmer and Webley. EVELYN EVELYN. Dark Horse Books, 2011.
A graphic novel about the unfortunate life of Siamese twin girls, Americans, who end up in Manitoba.
Diane Schoemperlen. FORMS of DEVOTION. Harper Collins, 1998. The sticker on this hardcover find says Governor General Literary Award Win...
