Woman Chased by Crows
An Orwell Brennan Mystery
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Publisher Description
International intrigue and murder come to a small town
Stolen gems. shady cops. Murders that could lead to an international incident. Orwell Brennan, chief of the Dockerty police force in small–town Ontario, had enough problems on his hands with the mayoral election, a daughter engaged, and, perhaps worst of all, someone in the department stealing his favourite cookies.
Things are complicated for the loveable curmudgeon: a police officer from Toronto, in Dockerty as part of a Metro murder investigation, is killed in his hotel room. And the eccentric local dance teacher, a former Russian ballet star, has some very dark secrets, unsavoury associates in her past, and a slippery way with the truth. But Brennan finds help in one of his bright young officers, who teams up with the dead cop’s brash ex–partner. Together the two women uncover a ring of shady pawnbrokers, crooked public figures, and Russian thugs all after one thing — the Sacred Ember, a very rare ruby once owned by the Tsarina herself.
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In Strange's absorbing second Orwell Brennan mystery (after 2010's Follow Me Down), Brennan, the avuncular police chief of tiny Dockerty, Ontario, and his dedicated team probe a series of murders involving a group of ballet dancers who fled the Soviet Union in 1981. At the time they unwittingly carried with them a stash of jewels, including a priceless ruby once belonging to the Czarina Alexandra. The refugees are now being killed one by one, and the ruby is still missing. Key to the investigation is paranoid and delusional ballerina Anya Zubrovskaya, who fears, justifiably so, that she may be the next victim. A lead investigator's murder raises the stakes. Two wonderfully realized detectives, Adele Moen and Stacy Crean, use their unconventional skills to turn up vital evidence. This finely detailed story contains mysteries within mysteries that are revealed, like the pieces in a matryoshka doll, one nesting inside the other.
