Celtic Knot: A Clara Swift Tale

Shortell, Ann

ISBN 10: 1525520903 / ISBN 13: 9781525520907

Published by FriesenPress, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Celtic Knot: A Clara Swift Tale
• Publisher: FriesenPress
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1525520903
• ISBN 13: 9781525520907
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

20 Award Honours, Including:

2019 Fiction Winner, Whistler Independent Book Award 

Judged by The Canadian Authors Association 

2020 Winner, Ink & Cinema Showcase's The Crime List Award for Books.

2019 Hon. Mention  Writer's Digest Self-Published Ebook Awards,  for Mystery Fiction

2019 Bronze Medal  IPPY Awards,  for Regional Fiction: Canada East

2018 Finalist, Sarton Woman's Book Awards for Historical Fiction 

2017 Finalist, Arthur Ellis Award for manuscripts 

Judged by Crime Writers Of  Canada 

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1868 Ottawa 

Father of Canadian Confederation T. D'Arcy McGee is assassinated. As the Prime Minister cradles his friend's bloody head, he blames transplanted Irish terrorists: the Fenian Brotherhood. 

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....

About the Author

Ann Shortell was born in Kingston, Ontario, with America just half-way across the St. Lawrence River. That invisible yet powerful line sparked her fascination with the promise and the danger of crossing borders, boundaries and thresholds.

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.

So intrepid young Clara is off having more misadventures--this time in Washington D.C. as well as in both American & Canadian frontier territories.