Still Waters: A Quin and Morgan Mystery [Mass Market Paperback]

John Moss (Author)

Book Description

Series: A Quin and Morgan Mystery | Publication Date: September 15, 2008

This psychological mystery introduces David Morgan and Miranda Quin, two maverick and culturally sophisticated Toronto police detectives. When a man is found dead in a garden pond in the wealthy heart of Toronto's Rosedale neighbourhood Morgan is lead into speculations about Japanese ornamental koi fish, and Quin into a chilling sequence of revelations that could destroy her. But the real mystery begins not with the deceased but with a woman who walks onto the crime scene and without emotion declares herself to be the victim's mistress. From that point on everything changes, even the past.

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"Moss spins a mystery that sparkles with dynamic setting … with vivid pictures, resonant insights and a spin on mystery storytelling that is as multilayered as it is beautiful, Moss teases us down the path to resolution. Still Waters is a mystery told by a storyteller par excellence and is not to be missed." (Don Graves Hamilton Spectator, The )

"Mosses' writing is as lush as the Canadian fall setting and as exotic as the Koi themselves. The book is brimming with imagery and he writes wonderfully clever dialogues between Quin and Morgan. They put me in mind of Reginald Hill's Daziel and Pascoe, or perhaps the clever cocktail commentary of Hammett's Thin Man duo, Nick and Nora Charles ... I look forward to another Quin and Morgan mystery ..." (Merrill Young Reviewing the Evidence )

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..has all the markings of a most interesting series with a pair of detectives who give the reader so much to like in the book.

|A corpse with a comb-over is discovered in a garden pond, but the real mystery begins not with the dead man but with a stunning woman who declares herself to be the nondescript victim's mistress.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 344 pages
• Publisher: Castle Street Mysteries (September 15, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1550027905
• ISBN-13: 978-1550027907
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,896,076 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

John Moss writes mysteries. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2006 in recognition of his career as a professor of literature with over a score of books in his field, John moved progressively away from literary criticism to creative writing, before settling comfortably into the Quin and Morgan series which now occupies his writing efforts full time. As a boy, he declared he wanted to live a life of adventure. So far, so good. He has participated in many endurance sports, including the original Ironman. He swam the Hellespont, and ran the Boston Marathon eleven times. He has dived in wondrous places, ranging from the Red Sea and the Great Barrier Reef to Tahiti, Easter Island, and numerous sites in the Caribbean. He has trekked through the Barren Lands on his own for twenty-eight days, and across major portions of Baffin Island. At different times he has raised horses, bred dogs, kept swans, and cultivated bees. He remains astonished at being alive, a sentient self-conscious part of the universe. Writing mysteries is the best way he has found, yet, of exploring the breadth of a full life and its inevitably ominous end.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing debut, January 3, 2012

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This review is from: Still Waters: A Quin and Morgan Mystery (Kindle Edition)

The first in a series based in Toronto. This is not normally my type of book: too much navel gazing, philosophizing, word games. Yet I found this novel amazing. The leads are not yet fully fleshed out, but you know it's because you have not known them long enough. The mystery, while essential to the way the book unfolds is still almost incidental. Can't wait to find the second book.