Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence
A Chill Rain in January
Set in Sechelt on Canada's Sunshine Coast, this psychological mystery follows Staff Sergeant Karl Alberg as an elderly woman's disappearance intersects with the secrets of an enigmatic newcomer. The intimacy and confinement of a small community deepen the sense of danger.
Work Information
In a quiet seaside town, a missing elderly woman and a woman hiding her past become part of the same threat.
A Chill Rain in January is part of the Karl Alberg series. Its tension grows less from procedural spectacle than from loneliness, fear, and calculation, with the texture of coastal-town life giving the mystery its force.
Review Summaries
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The book is valued for carefully building emotional nuance and the atmosphere of a close community. Its suspense is strengthened by a voice that also carries humor and melancholy.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Viking Adult
- Published
- 1990-03-30
- Pages
- 288 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 50.8 x 50.8 x 50.8 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780670831296
- ISBN-10
- 0670831298
- Price
- 21419 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Contemporary
Zoe Strachan, blackmailed by her brother, and Ramona Orlitzki, an escapee from a nursing home, share intertwining destinies which Mountie Karl Allberg must unravel, in a novel of evil and terror in a small Canadian coastal village
Reviews
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Murder in B.C.'s beautiful Sunshine Coast with a memorable cast of characters
I have already given this series by the late L.R. Wright high marks for plot, characters and setting. Staff sergeant Kurt Alberg leads the local RCMP detachment on British Columbia's beautiful Sunshine Coast. The area is populated by a diverse cast of inhabitants, hippies, retired people, vacationers, and ordinary people - but any one capable of murder which happens with surprising frequency. Alberg's patient sleuthing eventually leads to the solution, but always with one or two unexpected twists on the way. Note that the current television series has, for some reason, transported Gibsons, B.C. to the state of Washington, and transformed Alberg into a local sheriff! Regardless, the scenery is still magnificent and the locale obviously Canadian including B.C. license plates on all the cars!
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Good book in this series
Daughter is away in college, I gave her the first book in the series for a Christmas present, and she enjoyed the read…..says it was a good book. So I bought her the next 3 in the series. In her spare time, she likes to read ……
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Great Canadian mystery
This high quality, award winning Canadian mystery is a compelling blend of detailed storytelling and interesting characters. I'll definitely books in this series!
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Something's missing
All is not sunny on the Sunshine Coast of Canada. Something's missing in the intense gaze of the most beautiful woman police chief Karl Alberg has ever seen. He's disturbingly attracted to Zoe Strachan, as he looks around her house inspecting the scene of the accidental death of her brother. According to Zoe, Benjamin Strachan had too much to drink and fell down the stairs in search of more booze, unluckily breaking his neck. Alberg can't help noticing Zoe's silky stockings as he questions her. The next time he visits he finds a nine-year-old boy in the house. Zoe thought Benjamin had no family, but in fact he had adopted Kenny. The boy seems oddly terrified of Aunt Zoe. Alberg starts wondering about certain ambiguous findings in the post mortem following Benjamin Strachan's death. Zoe Strachan's house feels strangely like a fortress, and nobody in Sechen knows anything about her. It's Alberg's job to unveil the mystery of this wildly seductive, visibly cold woman. Little Kenny is destined to help him - as well as an old lady with Alzheimer's, a runaway from the hospital. I find Alberg's scenes with his divorced family a bit saccharine, and overall Alberg seems less interesting in this book than in The Suspect, first book in the series. But the book is well plotted, and the portrayal of an unstable amoral mind quite gripping.
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Very Good
Follow up to The Suspect. Liked it ver much.