Collins-Burke Mystery #11: Postmark Berlin

Collins-Burke Mystery #11: Postmark Berlin
Anne Emery
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h152 x 228mm - 376pg
29 Sep 2022 CAN
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9781770417021
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Father Brennan Burke is plagued by guilt when a parishioner he was supposed to meet with ends up floating in the Halifax Harbor. His penitence propels him to travel to Berlin to find out what secrets the murdered woman was carrying, and he' ll stop at nothing to find out who is responsible for her death. Father Brennan Burke is coming off a rough stint in Belfast and he' s been trying to obliterate those memories with drink ever since. His troubles intensify when the body of one of his parishioners washes up on the beach in Halifax. Meika Keller came to Canada after escaping through the Berlin Wall. Now a Canadian military officer is charged with her murder. Defense lawyer Monty Collins argues that her death was suicide. That' s the last thing Father Burke wants to hear. Guilty of neglecting his duties as a priest when Meika needed him most, Brennan feels compelled to uncover whatever prompted her cry for help and led to her death. He suspects that the answer lies overseas. But nothing could have prepared him for the events that unfold when he flies to Germany to investigate the case. In the midst of all this, Brennan and Monty must deal with conflicts between the two of them, which arose out of their time in Belfast and have yet to be resolved.

#01: Sign of the Cross
#02: Obit
#03: Barrington Street Blues
#04: Cecilian Vespers
#05: Children in the Morning
#06: Death at Christy Burke's
#07: Blood on a Saint
#10: Though The Heavens Fall: A Collins-Burke Mystery
#11: Postmark Berlin
#12: Fenian Street

"Postmark Berlin is a fine addition to an already very strong series of novels by multiple award-winning author Anne Emery. Featuring a gripping plot supported by nuanced and believable characters, and informed by the author' s firm knowledge of history and the community of Halifax, the layered story of a complex woman and her equally convoluted past carries the reader along effortlessly to its satisfying conclusion . . . Postmark Berlin cements Anne Emery' s position among the top half-dozen crime writers in Canada. " -- Ottawa Review of Books "Emery has twice won the Arthur Ellis Award (both for earlier installments in this series), and readers who have not yet sampled her tough-edged crime fiction are advised to rectify that immediately. A fine entry in a consistently strong series. " -- Booklist "It' s a search that becomes an intricate piece of sleuthing through Halifax' s military community and deep into the murdered woman' s old connections in the former communist East Germany. As in the earlier novels, this one relies on two particular strengths -- immaculate research and moral worthiness -- and along the way, it slides expertly around a whole slew of narrative conundrums. " -- Toronto Star "The roller-coaster ride to learn who Meika was and what led to her death will keep the reader guessing along with Burke and Collins. Fans of analytic detective stories will be pleased. " -- Publishers Weekly
Anne Emery is a lawyer and the author of the Collins-Burke mystery series, set in Halifax, Cape Breton, Ireland, London, and New York. She has won two Arthur Ellis Awards, an Independent Publisher Book Awards silver medal, and the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction. She lives in Halifax, NS.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781770417021
Published: 29 Sep 2022
Published In: Canada
Imprint: ECW Press Canada
Publisher: ECW Press Canada
Format: Paperback
Height: 152mm
Width: 228mm
Pages: 376

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