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Cut Off His Tale by Joan Boswell " The starter's gun explodes, and Hollis Grant excitedly begins her very first marathon race, only to stumble almost immediately over a body lying in the road, the body of the Reverend Paul Robertson, her soon-to-be ex-husband. When the crush of runners passes and the medics arrive, it becomes clear that the Reverend has not collapsed from the rigours of the race, but has been brutally stabbed. Although Hollis has emotionally distanced herself from her husband some time ago, her challenge now - before the police make her, as the estranged wife, the prime suspect - is to find out who, among his many detractors, would hate the Reverend enough to stick a knife in his back. Could it be a parishioner at his church who dislikes his activist stance towards gay marriage? Could it be one troubled soul among the many who have sought his psychological counselling and then found themselves laid bare in the Reverend's latest book? Or could it be the angry husband of one of the church ladies whom the charming Reverend has bedded? As Hollis and Detective Rhona Simpson probe the secretive life of Paul Robertson, they discover multiple motives for hatred and murder. As the murderer comes after Hollis herself, the solution to his murder takes on the urgency of life and death. 256 pages / 5 1/8 x 7 1/2 / ISBN 978-1894917-18-6 / Cdn. $12.95, U.S. $10.95 Cut to the Quick by Joan Boswell
In the sequel to Cut Off his Tale, Hollis Grant is back, but this time she’s in Toronto, hoping for a quiet summer of study. Hollis is a painter, and she hopes to spend some time taking a course in painting at the College of Art from her best friend’s husband, Curt Hartman. But the murder of her friend’s secretive stepson puts paid to those plans as the friend teeters on the edge of hysteria. She needs support and begs Hollis to move in with the family. Hollis discovers that all is not as it seems. Was the stepson the real target or is it his brother or his father, famous artist, and Hollis’s instructor, Curt Hartman? It appears that both father and son have led clandestine lives. Would someone kill them because of their secrets? Hollis poses those questions to Rhona Simpson, the Toronto homicide detective whom Hollis last encountered in Ottawa. It soon becomes clear to both women that the crime is the work of a cold-blooded murderer who intends to strike again. Terror mounts at the Hartmans’. Arson, a bomb, a sabotaged sailboat—the killer is closing in. Who will be the next victim? Hollis and Rhona race along parallel tracks to solve the case. ISBN 978-1-894917-47-6 / trade paper / 304 pp. / 5 1/8” X 7 1/2” / $14.95 CDN, $13.95 U.S. Cut to the Chase Who is th Danson Lafleur's been on a crusade to investigate deported criminals who return undetected to Canada, and now he's missing. Can he be the unidentified man in the morgue? Danson's desperate sister pleads with artist and amateur sleuth Hollis Grant to search for her brother, since the police don't appear to be taking his disappearance seriously. Leads seem to connect Danson and Gregory, his mystery flat-mate, to drugs. But who is Gregory, and what is his connection to the Russian mob? As Hollis investigates, she clashes with homicide detective Rhona Simpson, a woman annoyed by amateur sleuths in general and Hollis Grant in particular. Rhona, adjusting to a new, attractive, enigmatic partner, wants Hollis off the case. Toronto in November is as cold as Danson's trail. Will Hollis connect the dots before the body count rises? ISBN 978-1-894917-89-6 / trade paper / 296 pp. / 5 1/8” x 7 1/2” / $16.95 CDN and U.S.
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Joan Boswell's winning crime novel hits the ground running, literally, with the murder of an ordained minister at a marathon, and maintains an exciting pace as the determined protagonist Hollis Grant closes in on the killer." 
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