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Reluctant Dead

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Toronto Detective Miranda Quin takes time off in the tropics and gets trapped in a sinister plot. Her partner, Detective David Morgan, is left alone to resolve the case of a beautiful corpse and en...
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  • 25 May 2011
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Murder casts a long shadow, reaching from fabled Easter Island in the South Pacific to the desolate shores of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. Detective Miranda Quin of the Toronto Police Service takes time off to write a mystery in the tropics and gets trapped in a sinister plot with global implications. Her partner in homicide, David Morgan, is left alone to resolve the case of a beautiful corpse on a Toronto Island yacht and ends up precariously compromised in the mysterious North.

Their stories converge when they both return to Toronto. They discover themselves trapped in a labyrinth of deadly complexity, and the only way out is together. Much more than their own survival depends on it. Islands, they learn, are an illusion. Everything connects, especially when murder is involved.

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Price: $11.99
Pages: 405
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Publication Date: 25 May 2011
Trim Size: 7.00 X 4.25 in
ISBN: 9781554888566
Format: Paperback
BISACs: FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, Crime & mystery: police procedural, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, Crime & mystery fiction, Crime & mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction
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It's clear that John Moss has a winning combo. Quin and Morgan are professionally and fictionally workable, and Reluctant Dead is the best so far.

The author's murder methods are unique and challenge the reader, and his humour is wry and intelligent.

...intricate, erudite and cleverly written. Readers who share Moss's taste in the unique will enjoy his novel.

In the annals of fictional crime detection, Quin and Morgan are unique. I can hardly wait to see where theyll get to in the next installment of their weird and wonderful careers.

…the super intelligent repartee between detective sergeants David Morgan and Miranda Quin makes the plot almost irrelevant. Keeping up with the twists, turns, and tangents in their conversation is a work of detection in itself.
John Moss is the author of two previous Quin and Morgan Mysteries: Still Waters and Grave Doubts. He has published numerous books, including the non-fiction works Enduring Dreams: An Exploration of Arctic Landscape and Invisible Among the Ruins: Field Notes of a Canadian in Ireland. Moss lives in Peterborough, Ontario. His website is www.johnmoss.ca.