Acts Of Murder - Softcover

Wright, L.R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0770427820 ISBN 13: 9780770427825

Publisher: Seal Books, 1998

Synopsis

Canada's award-winning "queen of crime fiction" is back with Acts of Murder, the ninth title in the acclaimed Karl Alberg series.

Mrs. O'Hara had heard nothing, has thought her husband Tom was out.  She looked up quickly, stumbling in her shock, and her hand flew from the railing as she lost her balance.  Tom was standing directly beneath the light...behind him, slightly shorter than he, huddled against his back like a shadow, was a white specter with long hair...

The sleepy Sunshine Coast town of Sechelt, B.C., is once again beset by crime and only Karl Alberg can solve the mystery. Three people have been found murdered, by someone known as "the avenging Angel," a killer who has assumed the responsibility of ridding the village of those who sin, those who betray.

This latest case also brings with it some life-changing surprises for Alberg and his love, Cassandra Mitchell.  But theirs are only two of the lives that will be irreparably changed by the murderous activities of an angel straight from hell.

With the help of his striking new sergeant, Edwina Henderson, Alberg must race against time to prevent the killer from claiming another victim.

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About the Author

L.R. Wright died in February 2001. She is the author of fourteen previous novels. She twice won the Arthur Ellis Award for A Chill Rain in January and for Mother Love, which also won the Canadian Authors Association Award for literary fiction. She received the coveted Edgar Allan Poe Best Novel Award, for The Suspect.

From Kirkus Reviews

Ten years after coming home to her husband unexpectedly and seeing a spectral figure vanish from behind him as she fell down a flight of stairs, Mrs. O'Hara, now the best-known cleaning woman in Sechelt, is involved in an even darker mystery, as each of her client families is touched by murder. Sixteen-year-old Rebecca Granger vanishes from her parents' home, to reappear as a corpse on her birthday six months later. Andrew Maine's wife Janet, who addressed her husband's resistance to the idea of children by getting an abortion, has followed the same path, even to her burial in the same meadow. And hints of still other victims are reaching Staff Sgt. Karl Alberg's ambitious new sidekick Edwina Henderson. They'd be reaching Alberg, too, if he weren't so preoccupied with the marriage to his longtime love Cassandra Mitchellan event celebrated on the very day Rebecca Granger disappeared--and with his sudden powerful urge to resign from the Mounties and hang out his shingle as a private eye in Vancouver. The off-the-rack serial-killer plot would be forgettable in anyone else's hands. But Wright (Strangers Among Us, 1996, etc.) turns it to magical use by her unexcelled gift of rooting acts of violence in the rhythms of everyday life and banal desires. -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Seal Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0770427820
• ISBN 13: 9780770427825
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 272