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A review by miramichireader
Lunenberg by Keith Baker
3.0
Lunenburg (2015, Vagrant Press) is a Canadian reprint of a UK novel previously released in 2000. It is a detective/mystery novel which originally begins in 1970 outside Lunenburg, but ends in Halifax in the year 2000. Keith Baker is a UK novelist and has written three other thrillers published by Headline in the UK. I recently reviewed another thriller (I am not keen on that term, but that's what the publishers prefer to call them), What Kills Good Men by David Hood. It was a novel set in 1899 Halifax and concerned a police Inspector trying to solve a murder. Lunenburg is similar in that it involves a policewoman trying to solve two recent murders, both connected (as it turns out) to the 1970 murder. But no more spoilers now!
Synopsis
The main protagonist of the story is Annie Welles, an officer with the Halifax Regional Police's Robbery and Violent Crimes Unit. Annie is a single mother of two boys, the custody of which she lost in the divorce agreement. She loves Halifax and would not want to live anywhere else. She is not exactly 'tough' but she is resolute enough in her professional career and will often follow her hunches. Against the backdrop of these two murders is the planned Royal visit of Prince William to Lunenburg to launch the new Bluenose III (a totally fictitious ship and event). John Taggart, a UK journalist assigned to cover the event, but then the murders occur, and he is asked look into them and their possible impact on the Royal visit. Taggart's problems follow him across the ocean, as the paper he is working for is soon taken over, and his contract is then terminated whilst he is in Canada. He also has an ancestral connection to Nova Scotia, and soon finds himself in a foreign country without a job and embroiled in the investigation.
You can read the rest of the review at my site: www.MiramichiReader.ca
Synopsis
The main protagonist of the story is Annie Welles, an officer with the Halifax Regional Police's Robbery and Violent Crimes Unit. Annie is a single mother of two boys, the custody of which she lost in the divorce agreement. She loves Halifax and would not want to live anywhere else. She is not exactly 'tough' but she is resolute enough in her professional career and will often follow her hunches. Against the backdrop of these two murders is the planned Royal visit of Prince William to Lunenburg to launch the new Bluenose III (a totally fictitious ship and event). John Taggart, a UK journalist assigned to cover the event, but then the murders occur, and he is asked look into them and their possible impact on the Royal visit. Taggart's problems follow him across the ocean, as the paper he is working for is soon taken over, and his contract is then terminated whilst he is in Canada. He also has an ancestral connection to Nova Scotia, and soon finds himself in a foreign country without a job and embroiled in the investigation.
You can read the rest of the review at my site: www.MiramichiReader.ca