To Karl Alberg, a small town on Canada's ?Sunshine Coast? looks like the perfect place to soothe a psyche that's been battered by too much big-city police work. Bees buzz among the roses, and the local librarian is attractive, intelligent, and unattached. Perhaps he has at last come in from the cold. But sunny towns can conceal a lot of secrets?some of them bleak enough to make a man yearn for some nice straightforward urban crime. An intriguing set of character-studies of the cop, his quarry, and the enigmatic librarian ...
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To Karl Alberg, a small town on Canada's ?Sunshine Coast? looks like the perfect place to soothe a psyche that's been battered by too much big-city police work. Bees buzz among the roses, and the local librarian is attractive, intelligent, and unattached. Perhaps he has at last come in from the cold. But sunny towns can conceal a lot of secrets?some of them bleak enough to make a man yearn for some nice straightforward urban crime. An intriguing set of character-studies of the cop, his quarry, and the enigmatic librarian who proves an unlikely bridge between the two.
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New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 224 p. Crime, Penguin. Audience: General/trade. FAST delivery from the U.S. of a new softcover book. Usually ships in one business day. Sent from a on-smoking, non-pet evironment. Excellent customer service.
