Fiction Nature & The Environment
Power
A Robin MacFarland Mystery
- Publisher
- Inanna Publications
- Initial publish date
- Jul 2024
- Category
- Nature & the Environment, Women Sleuths, Humorous
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781771339667
- Publish Date
- Jul 2024
- List Price
- $19.99
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Description
Wry, forthright Home and Garden reporter Robin MacFarland has somehow gotten herself—along with her best friend and investigative journalist colleague Cindy—assigned by their newspaper editor to examine the deep-rooted causes of homelessness in Toronto, Ontario. Their investigation quickly reveals the generational effects of a hydroelectric plant built in Quebec that displaced a large population of Indigenous people to Ontario with little to no support. When the Premier of Ontario dies at Robin’s family cottage in Muskoka, Robin sets about proving that he was murdered against a tide of objection from the local police force. Robin needs to figure out exactly how his death was disguised to look like an accident, what the premier’s part in a dirty web surrounding the creation of more electric power, who knocked him off, and finally, how all of this impact her family. Power is the fourth installment in the Robin MacFarland Mystery series.
About the author
Sky Curtis travelled extensively around Europe after graduating from university and then lived in rural Nova Scotia where she had various poems published in established literary journals and her first play produced by CBC Halifax. After briefly living in England, she then moved to Toronto with her husband and supported her young family by ghost writing high school textbooks, designing educational software, writing magaz,ine articles, teaching, script writing, and creating a syndicated children's column. Sky now divides her time between living in downtown Toronto, backwoods Nova Scotia and Northern Ontario. She has authored over a dozen books and is passionate about social justice issues and the environment. The first and second novel in the Robin MacFarland Mystery Series, Flush and Plots, were published by Inanna Publications in 2017 and 20187.