Ghost Shadow: Unfinished Sins (Payge Turner Mystery) - Softcover

MacKenzie, Bob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0968542212 ISBN 13: 9780968542217

Publisher: Dark Matter Press, 2010

Synopsis

In mid-Eighties Windsor, Vietnamese gangs and Chinese organized crime meet head on in violent turf war as they go after a University of Windsor anthropology professor and $2,000,000 in ancient treasure he stole from China. Meanwhile, a brutal serial rapist and killer terrorizes the city.

Three psychologically damaged women - the professor's wife, his 17 year old daughter, and a private detective - are drawn into this world of brutal psychological terror, raw physical and emotional violence, and international crime and intrigue. Can they survive? In the tradition of Graham Greene and Elmore Leonard. Working on several levels, this psychological crime thriller is also the story of how these three women cope and ultimately survive their journey into hell.

Payge Turner was considered a good cop. At least she was until she was asked to leave the Windsor Police Force for an unprovoked angry attack on a suspect. Payge has a darkness in her that made her dangerous to work with and difficult to control. Now Payge is a private detective. It's easier to control her darkness when she works alone.

Payge's mind is on the current rash of brutal rape-murders in Windsor when she is hired to investigate the disappearance of 17 year old Susan Markham, the daughter of a respected anthropologist. Susan doesn't fit the rapist's M.O., but Payge begins to suspect something more sinister has happened to this attractive student.

Within days, Payge must cope with the turf war between oriental gangs, stolen Chinese treasure, a father who seems unconcerned that his daughter has been kidnapped, and a client who isn't telling her everything.  The dark streets of Windsor hide secrets in bars, in families, in the shaded corners where rapists hide.

Joining forces with her old police partner, Yvonne Laforet, Payge is soon on the trail of the missing woman. What she doesn't realize is that the most frightening thing she'll discover is hidden deep within herself.

About this title

About the Author:

Canadian poet, performer, and arts reviewer Bob MacKenzie has been writing poetry, prose fiction, arts criticism, and songs since 1965. Reflection, his first book of poetry, was published in 1965. His poetry has been widely published in newspapers, magazines, journals and anthologies in Canada, The United States, and worldwide; including, with noted Canadian printmaker G. Brender a Brandis, five of his poems as signed and numbered limited edition prints and a limited edition art-book, The Little Song (1975).

Bob has also released six albums of spoken word and songs with the performance group Poem de Terre, including War & Love (2006); and has published ten more books between 2007 and 2015. Bob has received an Ontario Arts Council Grant, and has art-poetry in the Canada Council's National Art Bank.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dark Matter Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0968542212
• ISBN 13: 9780968542217
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 270