In the Shadow of the Glacier
By Vicki Delany
3.5/5
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2019 recipient of the Derrick Murdoch award from the Crime Writers of Canada
Trouble is brewing in the small, bucolic mountain town of Trafalgar, British Columbia. An American who came to Trafalgar as a Vietnam War draft dodger has left land and money to the town. But there's a catch. The money must be used to build a garden to honor draft dodgers. This bequest has torn the close-knit, peaceful town apart. Then the body of a leading garden opponent is found in an alley, dead from a single blow to the head.
Constable Molly Smith is assigned to assist veteran Detective Sergeant John Winters in the investigation. But Winters doesn't want the help of the enthusiastic rookie and suspects that he's been assigned Smith for political reasons: her mother, a life-long activist, is the leader of the group arguing for the park.
Egged on by a muck-raking TV personality, outside agitators from both sides are soon streaming into Trafalgar. In the meantime, Smith and Winters search through small-town secrets for a killer.
Vicki Delany
Vicki Delany is one of Canada’s most prolific and varied crime writers and a national bestseller in the United States. She has written more than 30 books: from clever cozies to Gothic thrillers, gritty police procedurals to historical fiction and seven novellas in the Rapid Reads line. She writes the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop series, the Year Round Christmas mysteries and under the pen name of Eva Gates, the Lighthouse Library series. Vicki is the past president of Crime Writers of Canada. Her work has been nominated for the Derringer, Bony Blithe, Golden Oak, and Arthur Ellis Awards. She lives in Prince Edward County, Ontario.
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Reviews for In the Shadow of the Glacier
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Surprisingly good. A friend loaned this to and I found it to be a very nice little mystery read. I find the character of Tito very endearing. There are more books in the series and I will move forward with them.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is an historical mystery, set in Venice in the 1730s. The main character is a castrato, a young man who was deliberately castrated when he was young to insure his voice would stay high and pure.I really wanted to like this book a lot. Venice is one of my favorite locations, and the castrati are interesting to read about. Unfortunately this book just lacked something. It was very easy to put down, not compelling enough for me to pick it back up. It took me 6 days to read 282 pages.What did stand out for me was the shallow or immature tone of the writing. It struck me as a YA level book. Some YA books are complex and well written, others are not. This was one of the latter. I just didn't find the characters all that interesting, they lacked depth, motivation, and shades of grey. Tito was too perfect, Annetta was the cliched goody, goody older sister. Alessandro just appeared and had no real shading at all. The father was cold and mysterious, but had no real personality other than a stern bullying man who was never satisfied. They thought back to the days when their mother was alive as 'better times'. But the father wouldn't have been different then, so he would have been the fly in the ointment, except he wasn't. It marred the reality the author was trying to create. The younger sister was too obviously the center of the mystery, except to the characters.Characters outside the family are full of love one minute and then full of hate. They act extremely one way, and then extremely the opposite. Those that aren't moved by wild emotions are bland. The supposed bad guys are just as bland as the walk ons.The story was rather pedestrian, until the end. The evil actions were all recounted as a tale from one character to the others, rather than events for which the reader is present. As a mystery it was mildly interesting, though full of miracles. The story of how Tito was castrated was another mystery, and it was just a straightforward throw-away, as was the conclusion to the father. The glimpses we got of life behind the scenes at the opera, and dallying in high society, are all stock cliches, with nothing new to say or reveal. Everything was wrapped up too neatly to be true to life or real people. Perhaps the story and the writing lacked grit? It was too smooth and never touched my emotions.I thought she tried to do the setting justice but seemed to think all she needed were canals and gondoliers.This is a first book, so I may give her second book a try, but I am not in any rush.