Skip to content

Narrow screen resolution Wide screen resolution Auto adjust screen size Increase font size Decrease font size Default font size
You are here:Main arrow Books arrow Books arrow Fiction arrow Adventure arrow Vital Secrets
Info:

PDF
Books arrow Fiction arrow Adventure arrow Vital Secrets



Vital Secrets

By: Don Gutteridge
ISBN: 978-1-897306-32-1
Language: English
Pages: 288
Release: April 30, 2007
Edition: 1st

Price per Unit (piece): $26.45 (including 6 % tax)

Upper Canada, 1837: Lieutenant Marc Edwards, having resigned his position with Sir Francis Bond Head, Governor of Upper Canada, has returned to his usual duties with his regiment. He and Beth Smallman have come to an understanding. Life seems almost perfect.

The arrival of a travelling troupe of professional actors creates quite a stir in Toronto, and in the barracks. Marc’s friend and colleague Rick Hilliard quickly falls for a young actress, Tessa Guildersleeve. Things take a nasty turn, however, when Hilliard is found standing over the corpse of Jason Merriwether, lead actor and, possibly, Tessa’s rapist. Hilliard doesn’t remember stabbing Merriwether with his sabre, but it seems that no one else could have done the deed.

Marc isn’t sure at all. In the course of his investigation, he learns that Merriwether was planning to sell American rifles to local rebels. Was Merriwether’s death a crime of passion, or of cold-blooded murder? With Constable Horatio Cobb assisting, Marc is determined to find out.



Download the First Chapter Free
Availability

Usually ships in:

48h.gif

 

Customer Reviews:

Anna Dyckow  (Tuesday, 03 July 2007)
Rating: 4
Vital Secrets by Don Gutteridge
Reviewed by Joan Barfoot
Special to Sun Media
London Free Press
London, Ontario Canada

The Western English prfessor emeritus enlivens Canadian history in his period crime novels.

To read more of the review go to Trinity News.

Catherine Thompson  (Monday, 25 June 2007)
Rating: 4
I liked the first in this historical series, set in Upper Canada in 1837 and featuring Lieutenant Marc Edwards. This second Edwards novel is even better. Gutteridge knows his Canadian history, and how to turn it into fiction.

The story takes up as Edwards resigns his position with the governor-general and returns to his regiment. All seems well until Edwards’s friend Rick Hilliard is found standing over the corpse of an actor he had suspected of rape. Worse, Hilliard can’t remember what happened. Could he be a killer?

The loss-of-memory plot is an old chestnut, but aside from that, Gutteridge is on solid ground. The plot gives us snippets of early Canadian travelling theatre, local lore and incursions by the blasted Americans. Lots of fun for history buffs, and even for those who think Upper Canada is only a brand of beer.

--Margaret Cannon, The Globe and Mail, Saturday, June 23, 2007