Still Waters

Submitted by dmacdonell on Sun, 2009-10-04 14:59

Still Waters

A Quin and Morgan Mystery

By John Moss

A A Quin and Morgan Mystery Book
978-1-55002-790-7
September 2008
344pp, Paperback
$11.99 CAD

Shelve it

Moss spins a mystery that sparkles with dynamic setting …

The Hamilton Spectator

Mosses' writing is as lush as the Canadian fall setting and as exotic as the Koi themselves.

Reviewing the Evidence

Still Waters is both an assured debut in the mystery category and offbeat in the charming way only a newbie can be ...

Town-Crier

Moss skillfully enlarges his story to make it more than a murder mystery: it is a life mystery .... This too is a powerful novel.

The Star Phoenix

...has all the markings of a most interesting series with a pair of detectives who give the reader so much to like in the book.

Shelf Life

The novel is at once playfully intellectual and grittily realistic.

Canadian Literature

This psychological mystery introduces David Morgan and Miranda Quin, two maverick and culturally sophisticated Toronto police detectives. When a man is found dead in a garden pond in the wealthy heart of Toronto's Rosedale neighbourhood Morgan is lead into speculations about Japanese ornamental koi fish, and Quin into a chilling sequence of revelations that could destroy her. But the real mystery begins not with the deceased but with a woman who walks onto the crime scene and without emotion declares herself to be the victim's mistress. From that point on everything changes, even the past.