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A young Québécoise sneaks off to meet her Algonquin lover in an isolated hunting camp on the Migiskan Reserve. Five days later, Meg Harris discovers her frozen and brutalized body. The young Native is charged with her murder, and Meg feels responsible, since the young woman was a member of a crew which was helping her to clear some ski trails. Meanwhile both Meg and her friend, band chief Eric, are faced with another disaster. Someone is supplying the band's children with drugs. Are the events connected? Meg, convinced of the innocence of the young man in the death of his lover, sets out to find the real killer against a backdrop of police prejudice.
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Go North for Adventure, July 4 2008
By Story Circle Book Reviews - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Red Ice for a Shroud: A Meg Harris Mystery (Paperback)
In the end, it always comes down to the land and the weather.
When Meg Harris' great-aunt Agatha bequeathed her land and a house in remote West Quebec, Meg found a perfect way to escape her job and her abusive husband. She spent summers with Aunt Agatha and knew and loved the isolation. What she hadn't planned on was murder moving in with her.
Meg's only neighbors, the Migiskan Anishinabeg First Nation, need cash. Chief Eric Odjik has plans for a ski marathon, but miles of ski trails must be cleared before winter sets in. Meg's trail crew is falling behind, and to complicate matters, she discovers the mutilated, naked body of a young Québécoise woman. The woman's lover, a man from the reserve, is suspected. Although Meg knows the man has problems (including a previous cocaine addiction), she's not convinced that he would murder the woman he loved.
The weather and the land get a big play in this book, and Harlick handles the northern descriptions beautifully. Her Migiskan Anishinabeg people are a construct, but she's done her research well. Having worked with Dene Tha people in northern Alberta, I felt that the author captured the voice and feel of the complex relationships both between First Nations and white cultures, and between French and English cultures in Quebec. This is a dense, rich book that I read with great pleasure, rooting for Meg the whole time.
This is the second book featuring amateur detective Meg. First: Death's Golden Whisper; third, The River Runs Orange. I recommend all of them.
by Sharon Wildwind
for Story Circle Book Reviews
reviewing books by, for, and about women
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