Blood Wine
A Quin and Morgan Mystery
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Publisher Description
Detective Miranda Quin is not only fighting crime, she’s fighting for her life.
The summer before 9/11, Toronto homicide detective Miranda Quin wakes up to find her lover dead beside her, yet has no memory of going to bed with him. Horrified by the results of the forensic investigation, the normally feisty Miranda moves through events in a daze while her partner, Detective David Morgan, offers support.
Because Miranda is the prime suspect, neither she nor Morgan are able to pursue the case officially, freeing them from jurisdictional constraints. They find it impossible to avoid being pulled into the rush of events that follow from one mysterious death to another in a quirky narrative that brings in a New York policeman who reads Thoreau and a beautiful and dangerous European wine expert who is not what she appears to be. As the plot moves from Toronto to New York and London, a deadly fraud leads to explosive revelations of drug smuggling as a cover for international terrorism.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Summer 2001: homicide detective Miranda Quin wakes up with a gap in her memory and her lover Philip Carter's corpse next to her. She's suspended from the force as a suspect, and it soon becomes clear that the scene was staged and Miranda was herself a victim, sexually assaulted after being drugged by the real killers. It also becomes clear that Quin didn't really know the late Philip well at all; the man she thought was a lawyer was nothing of the sort. Finding the truth behind his murder will take the investigators into the world of organized crime and a maelstrom of violence where thousands of lives are at stake. The fourth entry in Quin and Morgan series, the work feels oddly dated, as though it was a very belated attempt to engage with or at least exploit the passions that followed the 9/11 attacks. The slowly expanding scale of the stakes is interestingly handled, but the plot as a whole fails to convince, with each new revelation underscoring the fact that this is an artifact of fiction in which every twist occurs according to the will of the author.
