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This psychological mystery introduces David Morgan and Miranda Quin, two maverick and culturally sophisticated Toronto police detectives. When a man is found dead in a garden pond in the wealthy heart of Toronto’s Rosedale neighbourhood Morgan is lead into speculations about Japanese ornamental koi fish, and Quin into a chilling sequence of revelations that could destroy her. But the real mystery begins not with the deceased but with a woman who walks onto the crime scene and without emotion declares herself to be the victim’s mistress. From that point on everything changes, even the past.
— Don Graves
Mosses' writing is as lush as the Canadian fall setting and as exotic as the Koi themselves. The book is brimming with imagery and he writes wonderfully clever dialogues between Quin and Morgan. They put me in mind of Reginald Hill's Daziel and Pascoe, or perhaps the clever cocktail commentary of Hammett's Thin Man duo, Nick and Nora Charles ... I look forward to another Quin and Morgan mystery ...
— Merrill Young
Still Waters is both an assured debut in the mystery category and offbeat in the charming way only a newbie can be ... If anything, Moss' character-driven writing in Still Waters reminds me of the involving work of the British write Reginal Hill in the famed Dalziel and Pascoe series.
— Eric McMillan, Town-Crier
Moss skillfully enlarges his story to make it more than a murder mystery: it is a life mystery .... This too is a powerful novel.
John Moss weaves a most unusual plot connecting the past and the present. He produces unexpected events and hints of secrets hidden in the minds of his characters.
— Connie's Reviews Online Blog
The novel is at once playfully intellectual and grittily realistic.
JOHN MOSS is the author of two dozen books, including Invisible Among the Ruins: Field Notes of a Canadian in Ireland and Being Fiction, a collection of short stories. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a scuba diving instruction. He lives in a stone farmhouse in Peterborough, Ontario.