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Bodycheck

by Steven Owad

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list price: $13.95
edition:Paperback
category: Fiction
published: 2005
ISBN:9781894917223
publisher: Dundurn
Description

Somebody wants Behn McAvoy dead. Behn is sure of this because he has just had to drown an assailant in his favourite fishing hole. But who would want to kill an aging hockey player from a minor-league team in Alberta? It could be a vitamin-addicted ex-con with a need for cash to fund a new scam. Or a self-adoring teammate who can parlay Behn’s demise into a ticket to the NHL. Then there's his ex-wife from a three-week marriage, part of a bourbon-blurred NHL stint that Behn has spent a decade trying to forget. It's hard to uncover answers when Behn’s only allies are an overworked cop, a somnolent girlfriend and a university professor who advises students to quit school in favour of menial labour. Finding out who's calling the shots would be easier to do if only the shots would stop coming.

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About the Author

Steven Owad

Steven Owad lives in Calgary, Alberta. His creative works include short stories and poetry published in print and online reviews as well as the two-act family drama Patricide, produced at theaters in Canada and the United States. In his past life, Steven lived and worked as a journalist in Thailand and Poland, where he wrote hundreds of arts reviews as well as news, business and feature stories. His first mystery, Bodycheck, is a comedic look at greed and self-interest in professional hockey. Brother’s Keeper examines the relationship of estranged brothers against a backdrop of murder in postcommunist Poland and oil-rich northern Alberta.
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