Celtic Knot: A Clara Swift Tale

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1868 Ottawa 

Within a day, Patrick James Whelan is arrested. After a show trial, Whelan is publicly hanged.

That much is history. Did Whelan do the deed?

What if Clara Swift, a mere slip of a girl, sees the trace-line of a buggy turn off Sparks Street, moments after the murder? What if Clara, who understands her dead mentor's coded notes, forges an unlikely alliance with the investigator--and ends up a trusted ally of both the condemned man's widow and the Prime Minister's wife?

Celtic Knot.
It's reimagining a crisis that tested a nation.
It's history with a mystery.
It's A Clara Swift Tale.

And it all begins with a shot in the dark....

In a previous century she was an award-winning journalist and non-fiction author. 

Raised on legends of her Celtic ancestors, Ann wrote Celtic Knot in homage to the Irish storytelling tradition embodied by that immigrant, nation-builder, and poet, T. D'Arcy McGee. 

Ann lives in Toronto with her husband, where she is writing a sequel, An Irish Goodbye A Clara Swift Tale.