For decades, the mansion of Dr. Gabriel Lazore has stood abandoned on a sleepy Toronto street, overlooked by the unsettling statue of the doctor’s daughter, Gabriella. Rumours abound about the family’s sudden disappearance, but the Lazore mansion has been little more than a curio for the neighbours to gossip about. That is, until the little girls start go to missing. Detective Quinn of the Toronto Police Service has seen enough of the city’s seedy underbelly to last him a lifetime. Early retirement and a quiet life as a PI catching cheating spouses beckon. But Quinn has a new tenant in his upstairs apartment, the mysterious and bewitching Kirsten, who seems determined to drag him into every kind of trouble imaginable. And another girl has just gone missing near the Lazore…

Al Davis grew up in rural Ontario. He quit school at sixteen and moved to Toronto, where he worked at various dead-end jobs until, at twenty-six, he returned to school. He completed a B.A. in English literature and an M.A. in Religious Studies. He was two years through a Master’s in Divinity when he switched to the Bachelor in Education program and became a high school teacher.

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