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​The Coral Bride

29/1/2021

 
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Roxanne Bouchard: Orenda Books £8.99
 
FOUR days short of her 10th wedding anniversary, lobster boat captain Angel Roberts has gone missing.
The disappearance is uncharacteristic. After all, it takes enormous strength of character to operate any commercial fishing business, let alone as a woman in this male-dominated industry. It’s always been especially hard for Roberts, with her father and brothers watching over her shoulder and husband Clément competing with her for the pick of the catch.
When her vessel is located, Roberts isn’t on board. It seems clear that she must have been at the wheel when Close Call II motored out of port towards the Gulf of St Lawrence but where is she now? She hasn’t been seen since Clément drove her home from an end-of-season party late on Saturday night; she was gone by the time he returned to their house the following day.
It’s at this point that police Detective Sergeant Joaquin Moralès is called in.
A relatively recent recruit to policing in Canada’s Gaspé Peninsula, Moralès is still finding his feet in this isolated chain of communities where everyone seems to know and/or share blood ties with everyone else. It’s more than merely a few hours’ drive away from Moralès original base in Montréal; this might as well be another planet.
The unexpected arrival of his younger son isn’t helping. Moralès is torn between honouring his duty to search for Roberts and trying to figure out why Sébastien has shown up without warning and horribly drunk.
Weighed down by one colleague who’s at best unco-operative and at worst outright hostile and another who’s a touch eccentric and rather reluctant to leave the comfort of the station, Moralès has little support. Even the fishing fraternity is against him – although Moralès is doing his utmost to find down one of their own, Roberts’ peers certainly aren’t offering any help.

Mountain Ghost

1/1/2021

 
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Christoffer Petersen: Aarluuk Press $6.99 ebook
 
PEOPLE who disapear in the midst of an Arctic winter generally don’t resurface until the spring thaw begins.
When police data analyst Mats Lindström vanishes onto the slopes of Sweden’s highest mountain, Kebnekaise, leaving behind his wife Márjá and their infant son, it’s assumed he has walked off into the wilderness to commit suicide. His body will be found by hikers months from now.
In their home in Gällivare, a mining town above the Arctic Circle, Márjá isn’t convinced, however.
And when Lindström’s social media accounts are suddenly reactivated, she’s not alone in questioning the circumstances and seeking an investigation.
In Québec Inspector Etienne Gagnon recalls that around the time of his unexplained departure from Gällivare, Lindström was applying to join Polarpol, the elite multinational law-enforcement agency of which Gagnon is currently acting commander. Surely taking his own life isn’t the logical act of a man who is at the exact same time pursuing his next career move.
Determined to lead a private search for the missing policeman, the Canadian Mountie prepares to cross the Atlantic.
Meanwhile, in London Gagnon’s senior officer Constable Hákon Sigurðarsson – on leave as he struggles to recover from injuries suffered during a Polarpol operation in Iceland only days earlier – is making use of his time off duty to pursue a ‘ghost’ of his own: notorious assassin-for-hire Byrne Cantrell.
Cantrell has threatened Sigurðarsson’s sister and daughter; he cannot be allowed to remain at large.
On the run since slipping through the Polarpol net in Reykjavík, Cantrell has been exhausted by too many sleepless nights of moving constantly in his desperation to stay one step ahead of his pursuers, both official and otherwise.
This is the second instalment in Christoffer Petersen’s series of Polarpol Arctic thrillers, picking up the storyline immediately after the first novel, Northern Light, ends.

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