Winner of the Crime Writers of Canada Award for Best Crime Novel

Inspector Green probes for family secrets that someone wants to keep buried…no matter the cost.

Accident or suicide? That?s the simple question put to Inspector Michael Green when a derelict stranger falls to his death from an abandoned church tower in a quiet river village at the edge of his jurisdiction. But when the victim turns out be a long lost son of a local farm family cursed in recent years by tragedy, madness and death, Green begins to suspect something far more sinister is at work. Probing the family?s past, he uncovers a toxic mix of rigid fundamentalism, teenage rebellion and a family secret so horrific that twenty years later, someone is still desperate to prevent the truth from coming to light.

• NEW PAPERBACK REISSUE: Dundurn is reissuing the first five novels in the Inspector Green police procedural mystery series in trade paperback (formerly in mass market size)
• New cover designs match the look of the later books in the 13-book series following exasperating, impetuous Ottawa police homicide detective Inspector Michael Green
• The series is perfect for fans of Louise Penny or Michael Connelly
• Author is a former psychologist who brings a deep knowledge of human motivation to her characters that makes for a riveting, character-driven classic police procedurals light on violence and high on emotional depth