Pursued By Shadows
A John Sanders/Harriet Jeffries Mystery
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Publisher Description
When her former assistant—who happened to have run off with her then-boyfriend—contacts her out of the blue asking for help, architectural photographer Harriet Jeffries at first has no desire to become involved again with the people who broke her heart.
But when her ex-boyfriend is found dead in her living room, Harriet and her current flame, Toronto Police Inspector John Sanders, have no choice but to get involved. Their search for Jane and a mysterious, deeply-coveted document takes them from Toronto to small-town U.S.A., and reveals the depths to which desperate people will go to protect themselves.
Pursued by Shadows is the fifth novel in the John Sanders/Harriet Jeffries mystery series.
Praise for Medora Sale
“Sale is marvelous at creating an atmosphere of claustrophobia.”—Daily News (New York)
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Characterization has the edge over plot in Arthur Ellis Award winner Sale's fourth Inspector John Sanders/Harriet Jeffries mystery (after Sleep of the Innocent ). The engaging duo find themselves enmeshed in the potentially intriguing world of international art and antiques fraud when Harriet's former lover Guy Beaumont, a renowned painter of the ``corporate oil school,'' returns after a two-year stint in London, where he fled with Harriet's assistant, pregnant Jane Sinclair. Now Jane has left the abusive Guy and taken a supposedly priceless unidentified document--referred to, in a contrived and annoying device, only as ``it'' during the first half of the novel. Shortly after Guy is murdered in Harriet's apartment, paranoid sister Lesley changes places with Jane and heads to New York City with the unnamed item. Jane, meanwhile, hides out in the small town of Skaneateles, N.Y., harbored by a friendly carpenter. Before the scam unfolds, Guy's agent, the agent's two sons, a mercenary academic and various other confederates become involved. Sanders/Jeffries fans should be pleased with the developing relationship between the inspector and the photographer.
