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Last of the Independents

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2015 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize — Winner, Mystery
  • 2015 Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence Best First Novel — Nominated
  • Unhanged Arthur Award — Winner, Best Unpublished First Crime Novel
    What do a necrophile, a missing boy, and an unsavoury P.I. have in common? Private detective Michael Drayton is about to find out....
    Twenty-nine-year-old Michael Drayton runs a private investigation agency in Vancouver that specializes in missing persons — only, as Mike has discovered, some missing people stay with you. Still haunted by the unsolved disappearance of a young girl, Mike is hired to find the vanished son of a local junk merchant. However, he quickly discovers that the case has been damaged by a crooked private eye and dismissed by a disinterested justice system. Worse, the only viable lead involves a drug-addicted car thief with gang connections.
    As the stakes rise, Mike attempts to balance his search for the junk merchant's son with a more profitable case involving a necrophile and a funeral home, while simultaneously struggling to keep a disreputable psychic from bilking the mother of a missing girl.


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    Series: Vancouver Noir Publisher: Dundurn Press

    Kindle Book

    • Release date: August 19, 2014

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    • ISBN: 9781459709508
    • Release date: August 19, 2014

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    • ISBN: 9781459709508
    • File size: 730 KB
    • Release date: August 19, 2014

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    subjects

    Fiction Mystery

    Languages

    English

    2015 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize — Winner, Mystery
  • 2015 Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence Best First Novel — Nominated
  • Unhanged Arthur Award — Winner, Best Unpublished First Crime Novel
    What do a necrophile, a missing boy, and an unsavoury P.I. have in common? Private detective Michael Drayton is about to find out....
    Twenty-nine-year-old Michael Drayton runs a private investigation agency in Vancouver that specializes in missing persons — only, as Mike has discovered, some missing people stay with you. Still haunted by the unsolved disappearance of a young girl, Mike is hired to find the vanished son of a local junk merchant. However, he quickly discovers that the case has been damaged by a crooked private eye and dismissed by a disinterested justice system. Worse, the only viable lead involves a drug-addicted car thief with gang connections.
    As the stakes rise, Mike attempts to balance his search for the junk merchant's son with a more profitable case involving a necrophile and a funeral home, while simultaneously struggling to keep a disreputable psychic from bilking the mother of a missing girl.


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