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It begins in betrayal a Lane Winslow mystery / Book 4
Record details
- ISBN: 9781771512619 (paperback)
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Physical Description:
363 pages ; 19 cm
regular print - Publisher: Victoria, British Columbia : TouchWood Editions, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
| Biographical or Historical Data: | Iona Whishaw has been a youth worker, social worker, teacher and an award winning High School Principal, who continued with her writing throughout her working life. Receiving her Masters in Creative writing from UBC, Iona has published short fiction, poetry, poetry translation and one children’s book, Henry and the Cow Problem. The Lane Winslow mystery series is her first foray into adult fiction. Iona was born in Kimberley BC, but grew up in a number of different places, including a small community on Kootenay Lake, as well as Mexico and Central America, and the US because of her father’s geological work. She took a degree in history and education from Antioch College, and subsequent degrees in Writing at UBC and pedagogy at Simon Fraser University. Her own writing output took a brief back seat during her teaching career, but she shared her passion for writing by nurturing a love of writing in the students in English, Creative Writing, and Spanish classes. During the course of her career as a Principal in Vancouver she was awarded the Woman of Distinction in Education by the YWCA in 2010 and a Canada’s Outstanding Principals award in 2012. She is married, has one son and two grandsons, and lives in Vancouver with her artist husband, Terry Miller. |
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| Subject: | Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction Women intelligence officers -- Fiction Women detectives -- Fiction British Columbia -- Fiction |
| Genre: | Mystery fiction. Historical fiction. Canadian fiction. |
| Topic Heading: | Festival of the Written Arts 2021 > Sechelt (B.C.) |
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Available copies
- 25 of 32 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Creston Public Library.
Holds
- 1 current hold with 32 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Creston Public Library | MYS WHI (Text)
Acquisition Type: Donated |
35140001179582 | Mystery | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2018 March #1
A tale of two murders. Agatha Browning, an Englishwoman who kept to herself, has been stabbed to death near her ransacked cabin in the woods of British Columbia. The only clue is her missing car, which was driven away by an unknown woman. Inspector Darling is abruptly pulled off the case by a government official who demands that he go to England to assist in an inquiry into an incident when he was a pilot during World War II. His departure poses a serious complication for his budding love affair with Lane Winslow. A spy during the war who was in a disastrous relationship with her controlling boss, Lane left England to live an unfettered life in Canada. Deeply disturbed when Darling is forced to return to England, she follows him and learns that he's been arrested for murder. The police claim to have eyewitness testimony that he killed one of his men after their plane was shot down in France. Although Scotland Yard's DI Sims sees a clear case, he's impressed by Darling and wil ling to look deeper. Darling's friend in England has hired a lawyer who initially doubts that Lane can help. But her determination to interview the other crew members, one of whom turns out to have died recently under suspicious circumstances, changes his attitude. As Darling is first granted, then denied bail and moved from prison to prison, Lane sees the sinister hand of the special branch she worked for behind his predicament. Meanwhile, back in Canada, Constable Ames, who's continuing to work the case, finds that the answers to Agatha Browning's murder lie in her past in England. The fourth in Whishaw's character-driven series (An Old, Cold Grave, 2017, etc.) is relentlessly exciting from start to finish. Copyright Kirkus 2018 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved. - PW Annex Reviews : Publishers Weekly Annex Reviews
Whishaw's fourth post-WWII Lane Winslow mystery (following
Copyright 2018 Publishers Weekly Annex.An Old, Cold Grave ) is flawed, but will nonetheless delight fans of the author's prior work. This installment sees Winslow following the man she loves, Inspector Darling of the Nelson Police, back to London after he's charged with the murder of a gunner under his command during the war. Lane must clear his name through her wartime spy connectionsâa world she worked desperately to leave behind. Though the plot and a second murder case in Nelson, B.C., prove overly simplistic, Winslow herself, modeled on the author's own wartime spy mother, is (as always) the best thing about the series. Her portrayal somewhat mitigates the book's flat characterizations, wooden dialogue, stereotypical queer characterizations and interactions, poor pacing, and a lack of racial diversity. The absence of any people of color in both British Columbia and the U.K. is noticeable, especially given the way racial diversity is at least present (if even it ranged from poorly handled to grossly stereotyped) in the mid-20th-century British works Whishaw's novels emulate. As such, this is definitely a mixed bag, but one with an excellently crafted series protagonist.(May)
