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Murder among the pines / John Lawrence Reynolds.
"Small-town police chief Maxine "Max" Benson is just settling into her new life when her ex appears on the scene. Apparently, he and his new young lover just happen to be visiting her area on holiday. Max left her marriage and the Toronto police to become chief in Port Ainslie, where she runs a three-person department with few problems and enjoys a different pace of life. That's all about to change when Max's ex-husband is accused of killing his young lover right in Max's own backyard. It seems that only Max's superior detection abilities can save him from an almost certain conviction."-- Publisher.
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- ISBN: 9781459818194 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 149 pages ; 19 cm
- Publisher: [Victoria, British Columbia] : Orca Book Publishers, [2018]
- Copyright: ©2018.
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| Subject: | Women police chiefs > Fiction. Police chiefs > Fiction. Murder > Investigation > Fiction. High interest-low vocabulary books. |
| Genre: | Detective and mystery fiction |
| Topic Heading: | Readers low intermediate. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Decoda Literacy Library | 428.62 R49 2018 (Text) | 35410000057661 | General Collection | Volume hold | Checked out | 2022-04-08 |
| Broadway Library | Low Intermediate (Text) | 33109010292902 | Readers | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Claremont Secondary School | Q REY (Text) | 21050000495713 | Quick Reads | Not holdable | Available | - |
| Downtown Library | Low Intermediate (Text) | 33109010353001 | Stacks | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Fort St. John Campus | PE 1127 F5 R38 M83 2018 (Text) | 31512001011318 | Stacks | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Nakusp Public Library | FIC REY (Text) | 35160000746124 | Adult Rapid Reads | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Nelson Public Library | LIT F REY (Text) | 3514830030329 | Literacy | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Terrace Public Library | RR REY (Text) | 35151001100668 | Rapid Reads | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2018 January #2
A former Toronto police officer finds herself trying to exonerate her ex-husband of a murder charge.Maxine Benson is the police chief of the resort town of Port Ainslie, where the rare major crimes that crop up are usually handled by the Ontario Provincial Police. Spotting her ex-husband, James Herbert Benson, with an attractive and much younger woman, she is soon being introduced to giggly Lana Jewel Laverne Parker and finds a bit of the green-eyed monster emerging. That all ends when Lana is found floating in the lake outside the resort hotel where she and James are staying, beaten and missing a large diamond Max had noticed hanging on a chain around her neck. Max calls in the OPP, who promptly arrest James. He claims that Lana received a phone call and left their room around midnight and that though he looked for her he didn't find her and finally went back to bed. Sgt. Gregory Stanton is rude and condescending and so sure that he has his man that he doesn't look beyond th e obvious. Max may have no reason to love her ex, but she doesn't see him as a killer. Stanton's not interested in the alternative possibility she comes up with, so it's up to her and her little team to produce some proof. Although there's not much mystery here, Reynolds (Murder Below Zero, 2017, etc.) does provide a neat primer on how to solve a crime in double-quick time. Copyright Kirkus 2018 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved.
