Fiction Native American & Aboriginal
Blood Red Summer
A Leo Desroches Mystery
- Publisher
- Eschia Books
- Initial publish date
- May 2016
- Category
- Native American & Aboriginal, Amateur Sleuth, Crime
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781926696270
- Publish Date
- May 2016
- List Price
- $19.95
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Downloadable audio file
- ISBN
- 9781926696508
- Publish Date
- Nov 2018
- List Price
- $19.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781990321139
- Publish Date
- May 2016
- List Price
- $13.99 USD
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Description
Métis journalist Leo Desroches has just been released from jail. Fortunately for him, he is re-hired at the paper to write a popular column about crime. It’s summer, the city is hot and buzzing with mosquitoes and it’s on track for a record number of homicides. Called to the scene of an apparent overdose of a young Native man in the inner city, Leo witnesses some rocks falling out of the body bag, and he picks them up. At first he believes they are crack cocaine, but discovers that the rocks are really rough diamonds. As he digs deeper into the story, he finds that the victim was a highly trained mudlogger at one of the new diamond mines in Canada’s High Arctic. Leo gets dragged into a deadly conflict between the mining companies and a murderous Native street gang, who are fighting for control of the development of another diamond mine. Caught in the middle of this billion-dollar conflict, Leo is also battling his own demons and fears. Will he get out of this struggle alive?
About the author
Wayne Arthurson, 2016 writer-in-residence for Edmonton libraries, is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Saturday Night, Air Canada's En Route, Writer's Digest, Canadian Living, and AlbertaViews.
Fall from Grace, the second novel in his Leo Desroches series, won the 2012 Alberta Readers' Choice Award.
Wayne is also the author of several history books and the co-author of the most popular fanblog for Amazing Race Canada, Gord and Wayne's Amazing Race Canada. He is a husband and father, and he drums in a band which is as yet unnamed, in Edmonton, Alberta.
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