Noonday Dark
A Doctor Annick Boudreau Mystery # 2
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Publisher Description
An exciting second installment in the Dr. Annick Boudreau series, the endearing and unflappable Dr. Annick Boudreau returns in this complex and nuanced portrait of psychology and a city.
The endearing and unflappable Dr. Annick Boudreau returns in this complex and nuanced portrait of psychology and a city. Charles Demers renders a divisive cityscape entangled in questions of ownership and change—who owns the city and who has the right to change it—with humour, edge and compassion, revealing the intricacies of a metropolis on the verge of myriad transformations.
When Dr. Boudreau is contacted by the Vancouver Police and informed that her patient Danielle has been reported missing and there’s a suicide note, Dr. Boudreau is shaken. Danielle, who was being treated for a major depressive episode, had been doing well—talking about her new relationship and the contract she just completed as a speechwriter for a bike-riding politician’s successful mayoral campaign.
Dr. Boudreau is, once again, on a mission to discover what really happened and joins forces with Danielle’s estranged father Ivor, a former radical journalist turned right-wing blogger. Along the way, the realpolitik is illuminated—a clash over the Knight Street trucking route, protected by the Satan’s Hammer Motorcycle Club, who have a strong presence on the waterfront and refuse to relinquish the port traffic to the suburbs.
Discover the clash and charisma of a city embroiled in politics and change, in this twisting and turning story.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Canadian author Demers's excellent sequel to 2020's Primary Obsessions, Vancouver psychotherapist Annick Boudreau is shaken when the police inform her that a patient she's been treating for depression, Danielle MacFadden, has disappeared, leaving a suicide note. The psychologist has never lost a patient before, and is convinced that MacFadden had turned things around. Boudreau's curiosity about what happened is encouraged by her patient's estranged father, who also refuses to believe that his daughter took her own life, and she suspects the truth may be connected with local politics. MacFadden, a gifted comedian, helped the campaign of the newly elected mayor, Alberto Rossi, by inserting laugh lines into his speeches. Less than a month into his term, Rossi is embroiled in scandal. The mayor pledged to phase out a major trucking corridor, whose residents suffered from air and noise pollution as a result of the heavy commercial traffic, but he abruptly backs off his promise. Demers makes the amateur sleuthing believable, and populates the supporting cast with well-developed characters, both major and minor. This clever and empathic series merits a long run.
