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    Four for Fogo Island
    Four for Fogo Island
    Four for Fogo Island
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    Four for Fogo Island

    By Kevin Major

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    Award recognition for Two for the Tablelands:

    ***THE HOWARD ENGEL AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL SET IN CANADA 2021 - SHORTLIST***

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    Award Recognition for Three for Trinity:

    ***THE HOWARD ENGEL AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL SET IN CANADA 2022 - SHORTLIST***

    Murder in a quilt shop on scenic Fogo Island leads sardonic private eye Sebastian Synard from his quest for some R&R to a different kind of excursion altogether.

    Four for Fogo Island finds Sebastian Synard on a May 24th weekend getaway with his new significant other, Mae. (As he says, “what a difference a Mae makes.”)

    When Sebastian and Mae arrive at a fabric shop, they discover the owner in a back room, lying in a pool of blood, having been stabbed with a pair of antique quilting scissors. This propels the couple along a sequence of occasionally bizarre investigative paths to track down the killer.

    Sebastian has more than murder to deal with. A family get-together involving his son and ex-wife (and her partner, Frederick, a police officer) goes awry as Frederick inserts himself into the investigation. Mae on occasion outsmarts Sebastian on the investigative trails, but our private eye is rarely without his trademark sense of humour.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBreakwater Books
    Release dateNov 30, 2022
    ISBN9781550819533
    Four for Fogo Island
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    Kevin Major

    Governor General Award winner Kevin Major is the author of twenty-one books—fiction, literary non-fiction, poetry, and plays. His first novel, Hold Fast, is considered a classic of Canadian young adult fiction, and was recently released as a feature film. As Near To Heaven By Sea: A History of Newfoundland and Labrador was a Canadian bestseller. Land Beyond the Sea is the final book in Major's Newfoundland trilogy of historical fiction, which also includes New Under the Sun and Found Far and Wide. One for the Rock, Two for the Tablelands, and Three for Trinity are the first three books in Major's new series of crime novels. He and his wife live in St. John's. They have two grown sons.

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