When a series of murders threatens the lives of an entire community in Vancouver, RCMP Corporal Paul Blakemore and Inspector Coswell team up once again to solve the case. What begins as an array of hate crimes suddenly culminates into a conspiracy against an American politician, and the lines between Canada and the United States are blurred as suspicions rise from both sides. To solve this case, both detectives must look beyond the powers of one culprit and instead focus on the ventures of an entire underground organisation, all while protecting members of their own city. An intense thriller that will keep you guessing until the very end, "West End Murders" is a great bedside read that threatens to keep you up well into the night.
Roy Innes comes from a family of Canadian pioneers -- prairie sod-busters in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. He was born in Regina, but grew up in Victoria, B.C. where he attended high school and junior college. Fine arts were his first love but the world of science lured him away for over forty years -- MD (UBC), FRCSC (Eye Surgery). During those years, however, a mystery novel usually lay alongside the mountain of medical journals he had to read and so, upon recent retirement, that genre was the natural choice for his first book. He writes from a tiny gulf island which he leaves only occasionally to hunt and hike in the wilderness of British Columbia.
He is presently working on two new mystery novels, one of which is a young adult novel, first of a series.
PUBLICATIONS:
Murder in the Monashees. Edmonton, AB: NeWest Press, 2005.
West End Murders. Edmonton, AB: NeWest Press, 2008
Murder in the Chilcotin, AB: NeWest Press, Oct. 2010
AWARDS:
Finalist, John Kenneth Galbraith Literary Award, 2009
