Mirage

Young Detective Timothy Earley is eager to prove himself when he lands his first Homicide investigation where he will be the lead detective. The opportunity arrives when a body is discovered crammed under the ramp descending onto the Hendrie Trails of the Royal Botanical Gardens. Detective Earley soon finds that he will not be flying solo when his case becomes entwined with fellow Detective Ashley Barton's Missing Person investigation involving the sudden disappearance of a young mother from a wealthy and prominent Hamilton family. The search for both a murderer and an abductor becomes engrossed in the torment of personal betrayals, the sorrow of mental illness, a journey to the Middle East, and the pride of a Muslim family. Suspects are proposed, discarded, and then re-affirmed as the complexities of the dual investigation mount. The resolution of the mystery threatens many lives-both of the innocent and the guilty.