Michael Blair is a Montreal mystery writer (who sets his books somewhere else). His first novel (If Looks Could Kill, M&S, 2001) was shortlisted for the 1999 Chapters/Robertson Davies Prize and the 2001 Quebec Writers’ Federation First Book Prize. His next novel, No Good Deed, will feature Burlington, VT, private investigator Hack Loomis.
October 1, 2010
She had eyes you could get lost in and the kind of voice bankers leave their wives for, so when she asked me if I would take the case, how could I refuse? It didn't hurt that there was some money in it for me, too. The case? To dig into the life of a man who'd been dead for forty-two years.