One day during the summer of 1972, my uncle Eugene was taken to a park near Kingston, where he participated in the gangland style execution of a man named Ted Hoffman. Six weeks later, my uncle's body was found floating in Lake Ontario... ?
Family secrets, an unsolved murder with links to organized crime...
Canadian author Cliff Burns combines real life and fiction to create a gripping and suspenseful mystery novel, a tale of doomed love and an unspeakable act of betrayal. The book spans over four decades of time, revealing the corrosive effects of lies and subterfuge on generations of kin, a legacy of deceit extending into the present day.
Cliff Burns writes like Hitchcock directs, producing gooseflesh without monsters. And that is the scariest kind of writing there is. ?(FACTSHEET FIVE, USA)
Incendiary ideas...Cliff Burns skillfully captures the anxieties of modern life.
(QUILL & QUIRE, Canada)
At last Canada has a literary equivalent of David Cronenberg! (STRANGE ADVENTURES, U.K.)
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