The Whisper of Legends: An Inspector Green Mystery
Two-time Arthur Ellis Award winner Fradkin turns in another solid performance with the latest Inspector Green mystery. Green, who works for the Ottawa, Ontario, police department, is concerned when his teenage daughter, Hannah, seems to have gone missing during a camping trip to a national park in a remote part of the Northwest Territories. The local RCMP appear frustratingly uninterested, and so Green, never one to shy away from taking matters into his own hands, heads off to the Territories to find Hannah, discovering along the way that his daughter’s boyfriend, who organized the trip, might have had his own reasons for the trip and may not have Hannah’s best interests or safety in mind. A change of pace from the previous eight Inspector Green novels (which were set in and around urban Ottawa), the book combines a suspenseful story with plenty of opportunities to see the brook-no-nonsense inspector out of his natural element. American readers getting their first look at this series will be eager to read more. --David Pitt