Author : Sam Wiebe
Publisher : Dundurn.com
ISBN 13 : 1459709500
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Book Synopsis Last of the Independents by : Sam Wiebe
Download or read book Last of the Independents written by Sam Wiebe and published by Dundurn.com. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2015 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize — Winner, Mystery • 2015 Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence Best First Novel — Nominated • Unhanged Arthur Award — Winner, Best Unpublished First Crime Novel What do a necrophile, a missing boy, and an unsavoury P.I. have in common? Private detective Michael Drayton is about to find out.... Twenty-nine-year-old Michael Drayton runs a private investigation agency in Vancouver that specializes in missing persons — only, as Mike has discovered, some missing people stay with you. Still haunted by the unsolved disappearance of a young girl, Mike is hired to find the vanished son of a local junk merchant. However, he quickly discovers that the case has been damaged by a crooked private eye and dismissed by a disinterested justice system. Worse, the only viable lead involves a drug-addicted car thief with gang connections. As the stakes rise, Mike attempts to balance his search for the junk merchant’s son with a more profitable case involving a necrophile and a funeral home, while simultaneously struggling to keep a disreputable psychic from bilking the mother of a missing girl.