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Shades of War
Shades of War
Shades of War
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SHADES OF WAR is a historical fiction set in a small mining town in British Columbia during World War I. Clare Tate, a thirty-one-year-old war widow and suffragist from Toronto has barely unpacked her bags when she becomes embroiled in a murder mystery that involves the female members of a troubled family. Explosions, ghosts, native wisdom, and romance quickly draw Clare into this unusual backwater. Over Easter weekend, 1917, the Boisseneau family waits on the Home Front for news of their loved ones fighting in France. The three brothers, Pierre, Louie, and Joe run The Timber Hotel with the help of Pierre’s wife and four children. Clare has reserved lodging at the hotel and is looking forward to a short and uneventful stay. Still mourning the death of her husband two years earlier at the Battle of Ypres, she pours herself into her suffrage work to resist disturbing reminders of her grief. She finds, however, that these apparently rustic townspeople arouse the emotions she had been determined to keep suppressed, and when the women of the Boisseneau family ask her to help them in their quest to solve a murder, the mourning subsides and she begins to heal. Clare eventually causes a reassessment of values among the townspeople and unexpectedly falls in love with one of the Boisseneau brothers while helping the family search for a murderer in their midst. SHADES OF WAR is both a murder mystery and a war story that explores the complexities of the melancholia associated with loss. Within the changing landscape of warring factions, both personal and national, the novel also highlights the weekend in Canadian history when the women in western Canada won the right to vote and the country, through its victory at Vimy Ridge, came of age.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJul 14, 2011
ISBN9780968272800
Shades of War
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Michele Carter

I was born and raised in Vancouver Canada. After graduating from the University of British Columbia with a Master of Arts Degree in English I taught English Lit for several years. I love writing, especially historical fiction that has a little humour for my entertainment and yours.

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