Vancouver noir Last of the Independents: Vancouver Noir (Vancouver Noir, 1)

Type

Book

Authors

Wiebe, Sam

ISBN 10

1459709489

ISBN 13

9781459709485

Tags

Hard-Boiled, International Mystery & Crime, Private Investigators

Series Name

Vancouver noir

Abstract

"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"--

Description

A crooked detective is playing the justice system to protect a kidnapper, and the only viable lead takes private investigator Michael Drayton to a car-thieving junkie.

Biblio Notes

Genre/Form: Detective and mystery fiction
Fiction
Suspense fiction
Detective and mystery stories
Additional Physical Format: Wiebe, Sam.
Last of the independents.
(CaOONL)20139083545
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Sam Wiebe
ISBN: 9781459709485 1459709489
OCLC Number: 911225743
Awards: Winner of Unhanged Arthur Award for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel 2012 (Canada)
Winner of Kobo Emerging Writer's Prize, Fiction 2015 (Canada)
Commended for Dewey Divas and the Dudes Fall Picks 2014 (Canada)
Short-listed for Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel 2015 (Canada)
Description: 331 pages ; 21 cm.
Series Title: Vancouver noir
Responsibility: Sam Wiebe.

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