Extra Cadaver Murder

RCMP Inspector Coswell is back. A university professor is murdered and his corpse is revealed to a first year anatomy class in spectacular fashion--nude on a slab alongside shrouded medical cadavers. He begins his investigation with Corporal James, his long time assistant, but is abruptly assigned a new partner, a female officer who arrives under a political cloud. Already depressed by his perceived plunge into senility, Coswell struggles to stifle his own gender biases and work effectively with this woman.

Their list of suspects grows: failed students, a jealous colleague, an intriguing ex-wife and a criminal cartel. Clues emerge that send them all over the city of Vancouver from UBC campus to downtown and its plethora of gourmet restaurants.

Roy Innes was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, but has lived most of his life on the West Coast. A retired eye surgeon, he turned his love of reading crime novels into writing them. His Inspector Coswell of the RCMP series began with Murder in the Monashees (2005) followed by West End Murders (2008) and then Murder in the Chilcotin (2010); all with excellent reviews. He lives with his wife on Gabriola Island, B.C.