book cover of Heat Wave
Added by 27 members
 

Heat Wave

(2019)
(The first book in the Paradise Cafe series)
A novel by

 
 
It's July 1936 and Toronto is under a record-breaking heat wave. Charlotte Frayne is the junior associate in a two-person private investigation firm, owned by T. Gilmore. Two events set the book’s plot in motion: an anti-Semitic hate letter is delivered to Gilmore, who up to now has not acknowledged his religion, and Hilliard Taylor, a veteran of the First World War requests the firm’s assistance in uncovering what he believes is systematic embezzlement of the Paradise Café, which he owns and operates with three other men, all of whom were prisoners of war. The two events, although seemingly completely unrelated, come together in this wonderful novel that brings to life characters who are as real to the reader as those of the Murdoch series.


Genre: Historical Mystery

Visitors also looked at these books


Used availability for Maureen Jennings's Heat Wave


About Fantastic Fiction       Information for Authors