Blood Wine
A Quin and Morgan Mystery
- Publisher
- Dundurn Press
- Initial publish date
- May 2014
- Category
- Police Procedural, General, Hard-Boiled
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781459708143
- Publish Date
- May 2014
- List Price
- $11.99
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781459708167
- Publish Date
- May 2014
- List Price
- $6.99
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Description
Detective Miranda Quin is not only fighting crime, she’s fighting for her life.
The summer before 9/11, Toronto homicide detective Miranda Quin wakes up to find her lover dead beside her, yet has no memory of going to bed with him. Horrified by the results of the forensic investigation, the normally feisty Miranda moves through events in a daze while her partner, Detective David Morgan, offers support.
Because Miranda is the prime suspect, neither she nor Morgan are able to pursue the case officially, freeing them from jurisdictional constraints. They find it impossible to avoid being pulled into the rush of events that follow from one mysterious death to another in a quirky narrative that brings in a New York policeman who reads Thoreau and a beautiful and dangerous European wine expert who is not what she appears to be. As the plot moves from Toronto to New York and London, a deadly fraud leads to explosive revelations of drug smuggling as a cover for international terrorism.
About the author
John Moss writes mysteries because nothing brings life into focus like the murder of strangers. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2006 in recognition of his career as a professor of Canadian literature with over a score of books in his field, John moved progressively away from literary criticism to creative writing, before settling comfortably into the Quin and Morgan series which now occupies his writing efforts full time. He and his wife, Beverley Haun, whose book, Inventing ‘Easter Island’, grew out of her work as a cultural theorist and their travel adventures as scuba divers, share a stone farmhouse with numerous ghosts in Peterborough, Ontario.
Editorial Reviews
This is a fine entry in a consistently satisfying series.
Booklist
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Lindstrom's Progress
Lindstrom Alone
The Girl in a Coma
Quin and Morgan Mysteries 4-Book Bundle
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Grave Doubts
A Quin and Morgan Mystery
Still Waters
A Quin and Morgan Mystery
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