R.J. Harlick

A Capital Crime Wave A program open to all ages Wednesday June 1 7:00 pm-8:30 pm Free Alma VanDusen Room, Lower Level Central Library 350 West Georgia Street Spend an evening with Canadian mystery authors, R.J. Harlick and Barbara Fradkin as they discuss the underlying aboriginal and psychological themes ... (more)of their mystery series.

In A Green Place for Dying, the fifth Meg Harris mystery, Meg returns to her home in West Quebec and learns that the daughter of a friend has been missing from the Migiskan Reserve for over two months. The police say that the body of a young native woman has been found. Fortunately, it turns out not ... (more)to be her friend's daughter Fleur, but the police still view her as a runaway and refuse to ramp up their search. Meg discovers that Fleur isn't the only native woman who has gone missing—fifteen have disappeared over the past five years, with four of them turning up dead, and the local police seem to be doing little about it. In A Green Place for Dying, R.J. Harlick explores not only the underworld of prostitution and murder, but also the impact of guilt in shaping lives. R. J. Harlick is an escapee from the high-tech jungle. After twenty-five years in the computer industry, she decided that pursuing killers by pen would be more fun. Originally from Toronto, she now divides her time between her home in Ottawa and a log cabin in West Quebec. A lover of the outdoors, she can often be found roaming the surrounding forests or canoeing the waterways. She tries to bring the seductive allure of the untamed wilds alive in her writing. Her first novel, Death’s Golden Whisper, introduced Meg Harris, who lives in the middle of a West Quebec wilderness. Despite her desire for solitude, Meg can’t ignore injustice. Death’s Golden Whisper was followed by more Meg Harris mysteries, Red Ice for a Shroud and The River Runs Orange. The fourth novel, Arctic Blue Death, was published in the fall of 2009 and shortlisted in 2010 for the Arthur Ellis Best Novel Award.

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