Product Description

Someone walked up to Joe "Shoe" Schumacher's best friend, Patrick O'Neill, in a Vancouver restaurant and shot him dead. It looks like a professional hit, but who wanted O'Neill dead? Was it Victoria, O'Neill's beautiful but damaged wife? Was it industrialist William Hammond, O'Neill's boss, with whom Victoria had a short-lived affair? Or was it Del Tilley, Hammond's head of security, who is obsessed with Victoria? Former cop, professional wrestler, and bodyguard Joe Shoe sets out to find Patrick's killer, and along the way he uncovers dark secrets going back years —secrets some people will kill to keep.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1547974 in Books
• Published on: 2004-10-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 320 pages

Review
"Good mysteries, especially good Canadian mysteries, are always welcome, especially on cold, winter days. The latest by Montreal author, Michael Blair, A Hard Winter Rain, is hard-hitting and punchy." -The Record (Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge) January 8, 2005

"If you are a mystery fan, give it (A Hard Winter Rain) a try. Michael is fast becoming a name among Canadian mystery writers." -Sue Harrington, The Glengarry News, March 2, 2005.

"Michael Blair's If Looks Could Kill was an excellent debut. His second mystery, A Hard Winter Rain, builds on that start. It's a well-written, well-constructed story with a couple of good twists." - Globe and Mail, December 4, 2004

"(A Hard Winter Rain)... possesses great energy and makes good use of the gloomy Vancouver winter to reinforce the sense of darkness and corruption... Blair also creates much-needed comic relief in scenes peripheral to the main action, and has a gift for wry description. A Hard Winter Rain (is) an exciting and atmospheric mystery."

About the Author
A Hard Winter's Rain is Michael Blair's second mystery. His first, If Looks Could Kill, was a finalist in the 1999 Chapter's/Robertson Davies Prize and was shortlisted for the 2001 Quebec Writer's Federation First Novel Award. He lives in Montreal, where he works as a freelance technical writer and editor.