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ON A DARKLING PLAIN

Launched November 20, 2009

Photo: Jacqueline Milner, Image-ine Photography. www.image-inephotography.com

SEAWAY AUTHOR LAUNCHED FINAL NOVEL NOVEMBER 20

Nothing is tranquil in On a Darkling Plain, the fourth and final book in acclaimed novelist Maggie Wheeler’s Lost Villages mystery series, featuring university professor and reluctant sleuth, Farran Mackenzie.

In the month marking fifty years since the inundation of the St. Lawrence Seaway, the remains of a young man gone missing during the Project days surface near Old Iroquois and stir up a hornets nest on both sides of the river. While dodging a cold-blooded killer, her approaching fiftieth birthday, and emotional commitment to Inspector Jerry Strauss, Farran Mackenzie faces reconnecting with the daughter she gave up twenty-six years before and the dark secret that drove them apart in the first place.

Since publication of the first Farran Mackenzie murder mystery, A Violent End, in 2001, Maggie Wheeler has become a powerful voice for the Lost Villages, both as a novelist and as a historian. With great skill, she entwines the recorded facts of one the most significant hydroelectric development projects Canada has ever seen with the multi-coloured strands of an old-fashioned whodunit. The results are captivating, from beginning to end. As Erika Ritter of the CBC states: "This is a fascinating, haunting and disturbing aspect of Canada’s submerged past, which Maggie Wheeler literally€ and literarily brings back to the surface of our consciousness."

For fans and followers of Farran Mackenzie, Inspector Jerry Strauss and friends, is this really the end of the road?

This is the last novel I have planned for these characters,€� Wheeler confirms. You should never say never, but this fourth novel was written to come full circle, tie up all major loose ends, and make a final statement for Farran and her crew.�

On a Darkling Plain is the fourth novel in Maggie Wheeler’s Lost Villages mystery series. It is published by General Store Publishing House and retails for $24.95.

THE FARRAN MACKENZIE HISTORY/MYSTERY BUS TOURS will return for the 2010 season

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