A Hard Winter Rain: A Joe Shoe Mystery [Mass Market Paperback]

Michael Blair (Author)

Book Description

Series: A Joe Shoe Mystery | Publication Date: October 1, 2004

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, as police believe, a "settling of accounts"? Was it Victoria, O'Neill's beautiful but damaged wife? Or was it O'Neill's boss, industrialist William Hammond, with whom O'Neill had a falling-out and with whom Victoria had once had a short-lived affair? Former cop, chauffeur, 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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"(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."

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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 why? Former cop, professional wrestler, and bodyguard Joe sets out to find the killer, and along the way uncovers dark secrets from the past - secrets some people will kill to keep.|When Patrick O'Neill is murdered in a Vancouver restaurant, his best friend Joe Shoe sets out to find the killer, uncovering dark secrets along the way.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Dundurn (October 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1550025333
• ISBN-13: 978-1550025330
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,988,678 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I live in Montreal with Pam, a computer graphic artist, and a couple of houseplants. I work, when I must -- and I must more often than not -- as a freelance technical writer and editor.