Anger is simmering under the bucolic facade of Tanglewood vineyard… All Ben Taylor wants is to get away from the police force where he worked undercover for years. The RCMP has cleared his name in an Ottawa shooting, but that hasn’t cleared his conscience. He arrives anonymously at Tanglewood Farms in Southwestern Ontario, where he worked in his youthful summers. Back then, it was a simple family-run vineyard, but it is a far different place today. The farm has become the hub of a powerful family empire. When a body is discovered in a shack on the farm, Ben is drawn into the investigation. Meanwhile, the woman who was once the love of his life now lives as a recluse behind the darkened windows of the farmhouse. As she begins to reveal to Ben her own dark secrets, they become suspects in the eyes of the police, the migrant workers, and even each other.

Poet and novelist David Weedmark, who was born and raised in Ontario, has lived and worked throughout Canada. Early in his career, David acted on the advice of his professors at the University of Toronto by foregoing an academic path in order to explore the world and to ”live a life worth writing about“. In the process he embraced many different occupations and lifestyles. His first novel, The Tanglewood Murders, comes from his experiences working with migrant farm workers in southwestern Ontario. His early work received encouraging words from scholars and critics and his first poetry collection, First Stirrings, was honoured with a 2004 Governor General’s Award nomination. Postcards from Paris, a second collection of poetry, prose and sketches, followed. David currently writes full time. He lives either in downtown Ottawa or at a remote cabin in the Gatineau Hills of Quebec, depending on the season.

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