- Paperback: 226 pages
- Publisher: Pottersfield Press (Sep 1 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1895900646
- ISBN-13: 978-1895900644
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 399 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,228,953 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Who knows more about what's been swept under the carpet than the cleaning lady?
Forty-something Bonnie Marsden didn't intend to become a professional charwoman, or an amateur detective. But after she gets swindled out of her job as loans officer at The Friendly Village Credit Union in Membertou County, Nova Scotia, she has to find some way to help pay the bills. Once she starts tidying other people's houses, she starts stumbling across things that tweak her overabundant curiosity and sense of right and wrong - things like a five-year-old child lost in the woods, and a retired couple killed in a botched home invasion.
Bonnie's husband, Big Ben Marsden, is skeptical about poking into the corners of other people's lives. He lost his steady job two years ago and keeps up his half of the mortgage payments by cobbling together odd jobs, some of them so odd he hasn't mentioned them to his wife. They have three children living away, and a very late surprise package still living at home. Invariably, Ben and the children get drawn into Bonnie's attempts to suss out what's going on under the surface.
The surface of the community they live in, like any part of rural Canada, may look bucolic from the highway, but people with several acres between themselves and their nearest neighbours can get up to some strange behaviour without anybody noticing. It's a place where well-off hobby farmers live just around the corner from people who don't grow vegetable gardens for a hobby but because they have to, and who make it through their hardscrabble days with humour and grace. Corporal Kowalchuck, the new detachment commander of the local RCMP, is a prairie boy not privy to secrets lurking in the community Bonnie's lived in all her life. But maybe Corporal Kowalchuck has some secrets of his own.
Forty-something Bonnie Marsden didn't intend to become a professional charwoman, or an amateur detective. But after she gets swindled out of her job as loans officer at The Friendly Village Credit Union in Membertou County, Nova Scotia, she has to find some way to help pay the bills. Once she starts tidying other people's houses, she starts stumbling across things that tweak her overabundant curiosity and sense of right and wrong - things like a five-year-old child lost in the woods, and a retired couple killed in a botched home invasion.
Bonnie's husband, Big Ben Marsden, is skeptical about poking into the corners of other people's lives. He lost his steady job two years ago and keeps up his half of the mortgage payments by cobbling together odd jobs, some of them so odd he hasn't mentioned them to his wife. They have three children living away, and a very late surprise package still living at home. Invariably, Ben and the children get drawn into Bonnie's attempts to suss out what's going on under the surface.
The surface of the community they live in, like any part of rural Canada, may look bucolic from the highway, but people with several acres between themselves and their nearest neighbours can get up to some strange behaviour without anybody noticing. It's a place where well-off hobby farmers live just around the corner from people who don't grow vegetable gardens for a hobby but because they have to, and who make it through their hardscrabble days with humour and grace. Corporal Kowalchuck, the new detachment commander of the local RCMP, is a prairie boy not privy to secrets lurking in the community Bonnie's lived in all her life. But maybe Corporal Kowalchuck has some secrets of his own.
About the Author
Alf Silver has been a playwright, an actor, and a songwriter, as well as a short-order cook, nude model, and day labourer. He grew up in various places across the Canadian prairies. He now lives with his wife in a farm-house at Ardoise, Nova Scotia, and devotes his time to researching and writing historical novels. Alfred has produced radio plays for the CBC programs Clean Sweep for The Mystery Project, Vanishing Point, Different Drummer, Cranks and Stereo Morning.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Tip of the Iceberg - Great Show,
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This review is from: Clean Sweep (The Mystery Project) (Audio Cassette)
I am enjoying this radio series very much. I just wish that all of the Clean Sweep episodes were available. This set contains only the first 6 of 23 episodes. I contacted the publisher of this product to see if they had the other shows but they did not. If you have ever heard any of the CBC Mystery Project programs then you know that they are first class. I live in Alabama and to find the rest of the programs will be almost imposible but hey I will try.
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Cozy Mystery, Nova Scotia Style,
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This review is from: Clean Sweep (The Mystery Project) (Audio Cassette)
I enjoyed these half-hour cozy, folksy mysteries. The series of six fit in well with a commute to work and I found the stories entertaining. The amateur, independent, middle-aged Bonnie Marsden was an interesting and well-played protagonist. The series was part of the Canadian Broadcasting Company's Mystery Project. Listening to these tapes was time well spent.
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