First introduced in Bill Deverell's The Dance of Shiva, crafty defence lawyer Arthur Beauchamp reappears in Deverell's 14th title, April Fool (M&S $36.99), recently selected by the Crime Writers of Canada for the 2006 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel. While his new wife decides to live atop a tree in order to protect eagles from loggers, Beauchamp is again retrieved from retirement from fictional Garibaldi Island to defend a notorious jewel thief on murder and rape charges. Deverell lives on Pender Island and near Quepos in Costa Rica. 0-7710-2711-7

[BCBW 2006]