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Fiction Police Procedural

The Crooked Knife

by (author) Jan Morrison

Publisher
Boulder Books
Initial publish date
May 2022
Category
Police Procedural
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781989417461
    Publish Date
    Jun 2022
    List Price
    $22.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781989417805
    Publish Date
    May 2022
    List Price
    $9.99

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Description

Constable Nell Munro is angry and in danger of losing her job. A teacher, Jay Tuck, has been found dead, a crooked knife nearby. A two-spirit Innu youth named Pashin is the main suspect, but Nell doesn’t buy it. Local activists implore her to keep digging but when she does, Nell is threatened and worse – so are the kids she cares about. Even when the lead investigator threatens to put Nell on probation for her big mouth, she keeps going. Local activists implore her to keep digging but when she does, Nell is threatened and worse – so are the kids she cares about. Who is responsible for the recent chaos on the reserve, and why do people who fight it end up either very quiet or very dead?

About the author

Jan Morrison was raised in the back of an avocado green station wagon. An air-force brat, her family was either relocating or taking to the back roads on summer holidays. 

While working with Innu youth in Sheshatshiu, Labrador, Jan, a playwright, poet and psychotherapist, was inspired to write The Crooked Knifeher debut novel. When not writing, Jan is in her garden or rambling the shoreline near her home in Prospect, Nova Scotia. 

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