Lightning Strikes the Silence
Beginning with a bang, the latest mystery in the series Publishers Weekly calls “highly entertaining” is a study in bygone promises and lingering prejudice.
A warm June afternoon in King’s Cove is interrupted by an explosion. Following the sound, Lane goes to investigate. Up a steep path she discovers a secluded cabin and, hiding nearby, a young Japanese girl injured and mute, but very much alive.
At the Nelson Police Station, Inspector Darling and Sergeant Ames, following up on a report of a nighttime heist at the local jeweller’s, discover the jeweller himself dead in his office, apparently bludgeoned, and a live wire hanging off the back of the building.
As Lane attempts to speed the search for the girl’s family with her own lines of inquiry, Darling and his team dig deeper into a local connection between the jeweller and a fellow businessman that leads across the pond to Cornwall and north to a mining interest on the McKenzie River. Away at her police course in Vancouver, Sergeant Terrell’s favourite (former) waitress April McAvity is drawn into the case when Darling asks for her help with finding possible relatives in the city for Lane’s young charge.
Meanwhile offices are being ransacked and someone is following Lane. Through the alleyways of Nelson onto the country roads and woods trails of King’s Cove, the latest Winslow mystery is a study in bygone promises and lingering prejudice.
Reviews
“Lane Winslow is out of her comfort zone and endangered abroad in this cracking mystery from Iona Whishaw. The Cost of a Hostage offers familiar pleasures and shocking new twists, as Lane works to understand a disappearance in Mexico while grappling with secrets from her past. A terrific addition to the series.” —Elizabeth Renzetti, co-author of Bury the Lead
“Iona Whishaw’s Lane Winslow is much more than B.C.’s answer to Armand Gamache. A smalltown sleuth with a background in international espionage, Winslow’s latest escapade takes her from Nelson to France and Mexico on her most thrilling adventure yet. The Cost of a Hostage is heartfelt and harrowing.” —Sam Wiebe, author of The Last Exile and the B.C. Bestseller Ocean Drive
“In The Cost of a Hostage, Lane’s quiet August morning is jolted when two shocking cases unfold — she receives news that her brother-in-law, Bob, is missing in Mexico, while her husband, Inspector Darling, is confronted by a frantic mother reporting her son’s kidnapping.” —CBC Books
“Iona Whishaw’s Lane Winslow returns to solve another mystery in The Cost of a Hostage, which sees Lane trekking through Mexico while the team back in Nelson pursue an open-and-shut and then open-again kidnapping.” —49th Shelf
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