Sunset and Jericho
A Wakeland Novel
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3.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
The fourth thrilling instalment of the Wakeland detective series, exploring the depths of Vancouver’s criminal underworld. The mayor’s brother is missing. A transit cop lies beaten and blinded, her service weapon stolen. A new series of graffiti tags are appearing, linked to an underground group calling themselves The Death of Kings. Class warfare has broken out on the streets of Vancouver, and PI Dave Wakeland finds himself on the front lines—but unsure which side he’s on.
Reeling from a bad breakup, and increasingly alienated from the city he calls home, Wakeland nevertheless agrees to look for the missing gun. The investigation takes him from flophouses, to city hall, to a clinic in the West Vancouver hills to a mega-mansion in the exclusive British Properties neighbourhood—along the way, crossing every ethical line the PI has drawn for himself. Even then, Wakeland may not be able to pull it off…
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Wiebe's boilerplate fourth Wakeland novel (after 2017's Cut You Down), Vancouver, B.C., mayor Valerie Fell hires PI Dave Wakeland to find her spoiled 51-year-old brother, who went missing three days earlier. Much to Wakefield's business partner's frustration, he is more interested in a lower-paying case concerning an assault on Rhonda Bryce, a courageous female transit cop, resulting in the theft of her service revolver. Nearby pawnshops provide a promising lead, and Wakeland's gut instincts establish a connection between the robbery and a wave of graffiti related to an underground organization that uses the moniker the Death of Kings. As Wakeland unmasks those at the heart of the criminal group, he discovers a shocking spate of abductions and murders, and is drawn into a class conflict that threatens to destroy him. Intermittent moments of taut action and suspense make up only in part for contrived plotting and an underwhelming conclusion. Hopefully, Wiebe will do better next time.
