The setting of this mystery novel is Quebec's Eastern Township in 1975. A young reporter finds his first job at the Granby Leader-Mail, a local gossipy newspaper. As he and his wife struggle to adjust to life in a small town, they quickly become immersed in crime, intrigue, and the politics of the times. This is a fast-paced story told with integrity, intelligence and wit.

The setting of this mystery novel is Quebec's Eastern Township in 1975. A young reporter finds his first job at the Granby Leader-Mail, a local gossipy newspaper. As he and his wife struggle to adjust to life in a small town, they quickly become immersed in crime, intrigue, and the politics of the times. This is a fast-paced story told with integrity, intelligence and wit.

Maurice’s sequel, called Borderline Truths, will be published by Crossfield in 2022.

Maurice J. O. Crossfield was born and raised in Quebec's Eastern Townships, beginning his career as a daily newspaper reporter at The Sherbrooke Record, where he stayed in the trenches for nearly 15 years. He then went on to be a contributor and eventually Editor—in—Chief for the Harrowsmith Publications. When he's not writing he has held a wide variety of jobs, from forestry work to auto mechanic, organic gardener to truck driver. He lives in the village of West Brome with his wife, musician and artist Sarah Biggs, and their collection of dogs and cats.
His last book, The Granby Liar (2017), is into its second printing.

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"I half expected a benefit dance at the Legion to help out a young family displaced by fire, but this is not your warm and fuzzy Eastern Townships. This is a place of secrets and long histories, an off—island Wild West. The seventies setting is the perfect era for this smokey, leaded gas, ink—stained tale, and it establishes a compelling atmosphere of both nostalgia and dread in which the vivid action and characters take place. I think Maurice has successfully created a new genre: Townships noir."
——Ross Murray, former journalist for the Stanstead Journal, author, and contributor to the humour column at both the Sherbrooke Record and CBC radio.