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The Suspect
The Suspect | L.R. Wright
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This Edgar Award–winning debut kicks off a cult favorite crime series with a noirish tale of murder set along Canada’s Sunshine Coast. To Karl Alberg, the coastal town of Sechelt, just north of Vancouver, looks like the perfect place to soothe a psyche that’s been battered by big-city police work. Bees buzz among the roses, and the local librarian is attractive, intriguing, and unattached. Perhaps he has at last come in from the cold. But sunny towns can conceal a lot of secrets—some of them bleak enough to make a man yearn for some nice straightforward urban crime. In 1986 L.R. Wright’s The Suspect became the first Canadian novel to win an Edgar award, beating out titles by Ruth Rendell and Jonathan Kellerman. It went on to become a cult favorite among mystery fans, who prized its delicately etched sense of melancholy and intriguing character studies of the cop, his quarry, and the enigmatic librarian who proves an unlikely bridge between the two.
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majkia
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Interesting and surprising beginning of a Canadian mystery series. I liked how uncomfortable Karl can be in situations. He's not the typical cop. He's vulnerable, crotchety at times, and stubborn. He's also sometimes needy.

The victim was well portrayed and complex with depths and surprises. The mystery, while we knew who dunnit from the beginning, was still intriguing enough to hold my interest easily.

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merelybookish
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This mystery has been on my ebook shelf for a while. It's set on BC's Sunshine Coast where my sister-in-law lives. The first time we went I thought, this would be the perfect setting for a murder mystery. Turned out I was not the first to have that idea. 😉
A solid mystery, the killer is revealed on page 1. As the story unfolds, you follow RCMP staff sergeant Karl Alberg put it together. Good characters, good setting, good pace. Author was 👇

merelybookish Apparently was dubbed once Canada's ?? "Queen of Crime Fiction." (Pre-Louise Penny ?). Coincidentally, it's just been turned into a tv series: Murder in a Small Town. Anyhoo, always enjoy a mystery at Xmas time. Unfortunately meets no criteria for #ChristmasCrimeChallenge unless 1984 counts as historical. ? @RaeLovesToRead 3w
LeahBergen You‘ve just reminded me that I want to watch that series! I was talking about it with MY Sunshine Coast sister-in-law this summer. 😆 3w
merelybookish @LeahBergen Yes, curious to watch it now too! 3w
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LeslieO
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Pulled a book that has been on my shelf for a long time (one of my reading goals this year) and I love it! What took me so long?? #waybackbacklist #readinggoals #FelonyandMayhem #backlistbonanza

Freespirit I love when I read a hidden gem of a book that has been languishing on my TBR shelf! 4y
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