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Shafted: A Mystery by Sheila Peters (Creekstone Press $18)
Sheila Peters' fifth book is a murder mystery set in her hometown of Smithers. Shafted: A Mystery follows an auxiliary cop named Margo Jamieson as she investigates a strange death with the help of a local historian. The town's picturesque façade is sullied by the conflicting agendas of an old prospector, a rich eco-activist, and a mess of misplaced desire in this mountainous region of northern British Columbia.
The time period is the early 1990s when there are no cell phones or the Internet and the death must be solved with the use of old-fashioned paper files, face-to-face meetings and land line-based telephones. Jamieson, the protagonist, must untangle a web of festering grudges, phony mineral claims, blackmail and murder.
Prior to publication, Peters did a week-by-week serial release on her website and read a chapter per week on the Smithers Community Radio station.
Sheila Peters has worked as a reporter, weaver, human-rights activist and English instructor at Northwest Community College where she teaches creative writing. Her non-fiction book, Canyon Creek: A Script (1998), was also published by her Smithers-based Creekstone Press.
978-0-9783195-8-8
The time period is the early 1990s when there are no cell phones or the Internet and the death must be solved with the use of old-fashioned paper files, face-to-face meetings and land line-based telephones. Jamieson, the protagonist, must untangle a web of festering grudges, phony mineral claims, blackmail and murder.
Prior to publication, Peters did a week-by-week serial release on her website and read a chapter per week on the Smithers Community Radio station.
Sheila Peters has worked as a reporter, weaver, human-rights activist and English instructor at Northwest Community College where she teaches creative writing. Her non-fiction book, Canyon Creek: A Script (1998), was also published by her Smithers-based Creekstone Press.
978-0-9783195-8-8
Submitted on August 26, 2014 in By David.
