The Cost of a Hostage
The latest mystery in the series Publishers Weekly calls “highly entertaining” sees Lane trekking through Mexico while the team back in Nelson pursue an open and shut and then open again kidnapping.
It’s a slow August morning in King’s Cove. Lane has a book to read and a lawn that needs mowing. At the Nelson Police Station her husband, Inspector Darling, and his team are tidying their desks during a rare lull. Then Lane receives a call with news that Darling’s brother Bob has gone missing from a mining camp in Mexico and the police station is visited by the frantic mother of a boy kidnapped from his bedroom.
From bustling Mexico City, through the desert and into the mountain range beyond, Darling and Lane’s search for Bob puts them out of the realm of the law and at the mercy of a local bandido. Meanwhile Lane is certain she’s recognized someone from her past she’d rather forget.
Back in the Kootenays, both kidnapper and kid turn up across the lake in Creston and it appears to be case closed—until a body is found mangled in the paddlewheel of a ferry boat. Plans for Ames’s wedding are taking shape, and Terrell’s favourite soon-to-be police officer April has a chance to prove her mettle. The latest Winslow mystery questions the roles of men and women, husbands and wives, and of course a certain police inspector and King’s Cove’s resident sleuth.
“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
