What happened to her father that made him kill himself and abandon Nora and her sister?Heading to Detroit to try and find some answers about his life there, Nora expects to discover a reason behind his suicide.
Nora Watts is being hunted . . .
With her tentative relationship with her biological daughter already strained and the imminent death, from cancer, of her friend and mentor Sebastian Crow, Nora doesn't need any more drama in her life.
But when a man claiming to know her late father approaches her, she is unprepared for the memories that this encounter brings back. Her father committed suicide when Nora was a child and what happened to him has always haunted her.
Heading to Detroit to search for the truth about his death, Nora expects to discover a reason behind his suicide. Instead, she finds more questions than answers.
But trouble always follows Nora, and it's found her in Detroit, a city that is as broken as she is.
'Sheena Kamal's writing is as fearless as her protagonist' Linwood Barclay
'Kamal has created a fresh and compelling heroine that readers will love' Rod Reynolds
'Intricately plotted. A tense, taut thriller, with a flawed, compelling heroine' Andrea Carter
Sheena Kamal's writing is as fearless as her protagonist, Nora Watts. It has
a dynamite premise that
reminded me of Michael Connelly's
Blood Work, in which the hero is asked to solve the murder of the woman whose heart ended up in his chest. Kamal has an equally
devious starting point . . .
Kamal uses the conventions of the crime novel to cast a critical eye on Vancouver's societal dysfunction, racism and poverty