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A sorrowful sanctuary : a Lane Winslow mystery / Book 5
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- ISBN: 9781771512893 (paperback)
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Physical Description:
356 pages ; 19 cm
regular print - Publisher: Victoria, British Columbia : TouchWood Editions, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018
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- Top Holds Over Last 5 Years: 5 / 5.0
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Sequel to: It begins in betrayal. |
| 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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| Genre: | Mystery fiction. Historical fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. Canadian fiction. |
| Topic Heading: | Festival of the Written Arts 2021 > Sechelt (B.C.) |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Gibsons Public Library | FIC WHIS (Text) | 30886001061551 | Adult Mystery Hardcover | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2018 August #1
The course of true love never runs smooth for a police inspector and an independent woman. Inspector Darling has gotten off to a rough start with Lane Winslow, whose private income has allowed her to leave England, where she was a spy during World War II, and live a peaceful, lazy life in British Columbia. Her astuteness has helped Darling solve several murders and rescued him when he's been a suspect himself (It Begins in Betrayal, 2018, etc.). While Darling takes a call from frantic Vanessa Castle, whose grown son is missing, Lane and her friends, fishing on a nearby lake, tow in a boat whose contents include a revolver and a man near death. They think the unknown man is Carl Castle until Vanessa says it's not her son. A little digging reveals that Carl, who'd just lost his job, may have been involved in a neo-Nazi group that's shockingly sprung up from a similar prewar organization. In addition, the area is plagued by a rash of burglaries. Lane and Darling's romance has pr ogressed apace, but his desire to marry unsettles Lane, whose last affair ended badly. While Darling and Constable Ames pursue their investigation, the ever curious Lane tries to befriend Mrs. Castle and borrows a neighbor's boat so she and her friend Angela can explore the lake and determine where the gravely injured man came from. They find a tiny cabin where one K. Lasek has been living. His books indicate that he was a German speaker but no Nazi, and this discovery helps break open a case that may be related to Darling's other investigations without, at first, resolving the complications in their rocky romance. An excellent mystery complemented by an appealingly down-to-earth look at life in postwar Western Canada. Copyright Kirkus 2018 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved. - PW Annex Reviews : Publishers Weekly Annex Reviews
Whishaw's intricately plotted fifth Lane Winslow mystery (after
Copyright 2018 Publishers Weekly Annex.It Begins in Betrayal ) opens with a bang. On the night of July 18, 1947, an unidentified man in a rowboat on a lake in Nelson, British Columbia, is wounded by a gunshot. The next day, Lane Winslow, who has a habit of finding bodies, is fishing with friends when they spot a drifting boat. Inside is a barely alive man who whispers, "Let me die." They bring the man to shore, and Lane phones Inspector Darling, "the man she loved," and asks him to send an ambulance to the wharf. That same day, a distraught mother calls the police to report that her 20-year-old son has failed to come home. The two cases overlap as Darling and his colleague Constable Ames try to determine the wounded man's identity and find the missing son. A large cast and multiple flashbacks to different time periods can make the action hard to follow at times, but in the end Whishaw brings all the narrative threads together for a satisfying finale. Progress in the often fraught personal relationship between Lane and Darling will please series fans.(Sept.)
