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Undertow

An inspector stride mystery

by (author) Thomas Curran

Publisher
Breakwater Books Ltd.
Initial publish date
Dec 2002
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550811933
    Publish Date
    Dec 2002
    List Price
    $19.95

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Description

May 1947 in St. John’s, a woman is brutally murdered in her bath. In the same neighbourhood, in 1943, a young American soldier was also murdered, a crime that was never solved. Two murders, four years apart. One killer or two? Inspector Eric Stride of the Newfoundland Constabulary uncovers a complex web of evidence and circumstance, following a trail that goes back more than twenty years. Along the way, Stride finds that his own life is in danger. Undertow is set against the backdrop of wartime and post-war Newfoundland, in a time of social and political upheaval.

About the author

Thomas Rendell Curran was born in St. John’s, Newfoundland in 1939.

He was educated at Holloway School, Prince of Wales College, Memorial University of Newfoundland, and the University of Toronto. For more than twenty years he was a senior researcher and writer with the Parliamentary Research Branch in Ottawa. Undertow, his first novel, is set in St. John’s, partly in the neighbourhood where he grew up. He currently lives in Ottawa.

 

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