Fifth Son
An Inspector Green Mystery
- Publisher
- Dundurn Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2022
- Category
- Police Procedural, Psychological, Jewish
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781894917131
- Publish Date
- Sep 2004
- List Price
- $16.99
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781459707856
- Publish Date
- Sep 2004
- List Price
- $6.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781459751057
- Publish Date
- Sep 2022
- List Price
- $21.99
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Description
Winner of the Crime Writers of Canada Award for Best Crime Novel
Inspector Green probes for family secrets that someone wants to keep buried...no matter the cost.
Accident or suicide? That’s the simple question put to Inspector Michael Green when a derelict stranger falls to his death from an abandoned church tower in a quiet river village at the edge of his jurisdiction. But when the victim turns out be a long lost son of a local farm family cursed in recent years by tragedy, madness and death, Green begins to suspect something far more sinister is at work. Probing the family’s past, he uncovers a toxic mix of rigid fundamentalism, teenage rebellion and a family secret so horrific that twenty years later, someone is still desperate to prevent the truth from coming to light.
About the author
Barbara Fradkin was born in Montreal and attended McGill, the University of Toronto and the University of Ottawa, where she obtained her PhD in psychology. Her work as a child psychologist has provided ample inspiration and insight for plotting murders, and she recently left full-time practice in order to be able to devote more time to writing. Barbara has an affinity for the dark side, and her compelling short stories haunt several anthologies and magazines, including Storyteller, Iced (Insomniac Press, 2001), and the Ladies Killing Circle anthologies, including Fit to Die, Bone Dance and When Boomers Go Bad, published by RendezVous Press. Her detective series features the exasperating, infuriating Ottawa Inspector Michael Green, whose love of the hunt often interferes with family, friends and police protocol. The series includes Do or Die (2000), Once Upon a Time (2002), Mist Walker (2003), and Fifth Son (Fall 2004). Once Upon a Time was nominated for Best Novel at the Arthur Ellis Awards, Canada’s top crime writing awards, and her latest title, Fifth Son won this prestigious award in 2005. The fifth in the series, Honour Among Men, (2006), repeated the honour, the only time that consecutive novels by the same author have won the award. The sixth and seventh novels, Dream Chasers and This Thing of Darkness, followed in 2007 and 2009.
Awards
- Winner, Crime Writers of Canada Award for Best Crime Novel
Editorial Reviews
A character-driven psychological thriller that’s a page turner from page one.
Midwest Book Review
All works beautifully right up to the twist at the end. The Inspector Green series gets better with every book.
Globe and Mail
One of the longest-running and most successful series in Canadian crime fiction, and for good reason.
Ottawa Review of Books
One exceptional mystery, with even more complex characters and tighter plotting. Fradkin’s forte is the emotional cost of crime.
Ottawa Citizen
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