Lament for Bonnie

by Emery, Anne

• ISBN13: 9781770411685
• ISBN10: 1770411682
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-09-13
• Publisher: ECW Press

Summary

The ninth mystery in a series that “gets better with every book” (Globe and Mail)

Twelve-year-old Bonnie MacDonald — the beloved stepdancing, fiddling youngest member of Cape Breton’s famed Clan Donnie band — vanishes after a family party. There was no stranger spotted lurking around, but no one thinks for one minute that Bonnie ran away. Maura MacNeil, cousin to Clan Donnie, offers her husband’s legal services to the family as the police search for the missing girl. But fame attracts some strange characters and Clan Donnie has groupies. So, it turns out, does lawyer and bluesman Monty Collins.

Monty and Maura’s daughter, Normie, is much closer to the action as she gets to know her cousins, learns things she wishes she never had, and has nightmares — visions? — that bring her no closer to finding Bonnie. Her spooky great-grandmother makes no secret of the fact that she senses the presence of evil in their village — the kind of evil RCMP Sergeant Pierre Maguire left Montreal to escape. But he finds that vein of darkness running beneath the beauty and vibrant culture of Cape Breton.

Author Biography

Named “one of Canada’s finest novelists” (Ottawa Review of Books), Anne Emery is a lawyer and the author of the Collins-Burke mystery series, set in Nova Scotia, New York, London, and Ireland. She has won an Arthur Ellis Award, an Independent Publisher Book Awards silver medal, and a Dartmouth Book Award. She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Table of Contents

Chapter I — 1
Chapter II — 25
Chapter III — 62
Chapter IV — 99
Chapter V — 128
Chapter VI — 159
Chapter VII — 180
Chapter VIII — 215
Chapter IX — 237
Chapter X — 247
Chapter XI — 281
Chapter XII — 301
Chapter XIII — 330
Acknowledgements — 333