Description
Fiction. On his return to Montreal, Riley becomes entangled in the wreckage left behind by a con man called Brandt who ran a Ponzi scheme. When the fifty-million-dollar scheme falls apart and dozens of people are left destitute, some of them figure that Brandt's wife Terry must know where he's hiding out. Riley's not convinced, but then Terry's the woman Riley was living with when he left Montreal twenty years before.
"I've been a strong admirer of Michael Blair's writing since the publication of The Dells, his first novel in the Joe Shoe series, in 2007. It's a fine novel, and ten years on, Blair has further polished his writing: Riley is an engaging character, with a penchant for wisecracks, an ability to roll with some very tough punches, and a strong sense of decency. Add to that the other characters, each original and convincing, and an atmosphere based on Blair's own informed knowledge of Montreal and its environs, and you have a well-paced, perfectly-plotted tale for our times, and Blair's strongest work to date."—Jim Napier, Ottawa Review of Books
Author Bio
Michael Blair's first novel, If Looks Could Kill (M&S, 2001) was shortlisted for the 1999 Chapters/Robertson Davies Prize and the 2001 Quebec Writers' Federation First Book Prize. Since then he has published five more novels, most recently TRUE BELIEVERS (Linda Leith Publishing, 2015). He lives in Montreal.
Author City: MONTREAL, QC CAN