Review: Chilling Detail - Done to Death
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 2, 2014
Chris Allard is a disgraced social worker who finds himself unemployed in Toronto, so he reluctantly accepts a job in the isolated community of Sioux Lookout. Once there, he finds murder, but more importantly, a lot about himself.Death in Sioux Lookout, by Richard Schwindt, is the first in a trilogy that was first published twenty years ago. Schwindt has a keen eye for detail and fully develops his characters and their locale. While there is probably more development of minor characters than is absolutely necessary, and the book has a few distracting typos, it is nonetheless an interesting read. He knows how to keep the reader guessing until the very end – not as satisfying unfortunately as I was led by the first half of the book to expect, but not a deal breaker.I received a free review copy of the book, and despite the few glitches mentioned above found it a credibly written mystery.