A Superior Crime and other stories

By Virginia Winters

Before the novel, there was the short story, told around the campfire or the table, to children and adults: myths, fables, and fairy tales. Five of these short stories feature paediatrican and amateur genealogist Anne McPhail. Her travels plunge her into murder investigations from Vancouver to Quebec City. In other stories, some journeys are external and take us to locations from Dubai to England's West Country to rural Ontario and some, like The Decision, on deeply personal and internal voyages.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Virginia Winters
• Release date: Feb 5, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463448519

Virginia Winters

I'm a writer who lives in Lindsay, On in Kawartha Lakes with my husband George and our Standard Poodle puppy, Cully. My writing career blossomed after I retired from my Paediatric practice in 2010, although I'd been writing for twenty years before that. Painting of Sorrow is my 6th novel.

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