Last of the Independents: Vancouver Noir

By Sam Wiebe

Book Overview

2015 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize -- Winner, Mystery - 2015 Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence Best First Novel -- Nominated - Unhanged Arthur Award -- Winner, Best Unpublished First Crime Novel

What do a necrophile, a missing boy, and an unsavoury P.I. have in common? Private detective Michael Drayton is about to find out....

Twenty-nine-year-old Michael Drayton runs a private investigation agency in Vancouver that specializes in missing persons -- only, as Mike has discovered, some missing people stay with you. Still haunted by the unsolved disappearance of a young girl, Mike is hired to find the vanished son of a local junk merchant. However, he quickly discovers that the case has been damaged by a crooked private eye and dismissed by a disinterested justice system. Worse, the only viable lead involves a drug-addicted car thief with gang connections.

As the stakes rise, Mike attempts to balance his search for the junk merchant's son with a more profitable case involving a necrophile and a funeral home, while simultaneously struggling to keep a disreputable psychic from bilking the mother of a missing girl.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1459709489
• ISBN13: 9781459709485
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.9" x 7.9"