Review
This is the third novel in the Elias McCann series by Zuehlke, and the best. Zuehlke, who lives on Vancouver Island, has really caught the culture and pace of his Tofino setting, and McCann, the local coroner, is a well-developed character with smarts and charm. The plot is solid. A young woman named Sparrow is murdered, her naked body wrapped in barbed wire on a cold and isolated beach. The crime is brutal and sadistic, and there's no shortage of suspects. Sparrow was part of a group of street youths known as the One Earth Family, and there are many references to the worst days of the Manson family. But McCann sees more in Sparrow and her association with the barren land she died on, and he must uncover her past to find the answer to her death. Excellent. -Globe and Mail, November 13, 2004
"Sweep Lotus is well crafted, with interesting characters and relationships and a beautiful West Coast setting.
Henry G Macleod,
Canadian Book Review Annual
From the Inside Flap
When the naked corpse of a girl known only as Sparrow is found wrapped in barbed wire on a storm-swept beach, community coroner Elias McCann must investigate the sadistic killing. To find the killer Elias must first unravel the mystery of Sparrow's past.|When the corpse of a homeless girl is found on the beach, coroner Elias McCann must investigate the sadistic killing.