A Matter of Malice

A DreadfulWater Mystery

By Thomas King

From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of Sufferance and Indians on Vacation

Can a reality TV show solve a cold case?

When a TV producer asks Thumps to assist with an episode about a local woman from a wealthy family whose death was ruled “misadventure,” he is reluctant to get involved. Then the producer dies in the exact same manner, and Thumps finds himself solving two cases.

The crew of Malice Aforethought, a true-crime reality-TV show, shows up in Chinook to do an episode about the death of Trudy Samuels. Trudy’s death had originally been ruled accidental, but with ratings in mind, one of the producers, Nina Maslow, wants to prove it was murder?and she wants Thumps to help. Thumps is reluctant to get involved. But then Nina dies in the exact same place and in the exact same way as Trudy. Are the two deaths related? Or are there two murderers on the loose in Chinook? Thumps uses Nina’s Malice Aforethought files to try to fit the pieces of the puzzle together, and in the process discovers that the producer had already started work on another case that is close to Thumps’s heart: the Obsidian murders.

ISBN: 9781443455176
Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers
On Sale: Jan 29, 2019
List price: $22.99
No of pages: 400
Trim Size: 4.710 in (w) x 7.170 in (h) x 1.040 in (d)
BISAC 1: FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General
BISAC 2: FICTION / Indigenous/General (see also Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island or AI/AN)
BISAC 3: FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural

Thomas King

Biography

THOMAS KING is an award-winning writer and photographer. His critically acclaimed, bestselling books include Aliens on the Moon; Medicine River; Green Grass; Running Water; One Good Story; That One; Truth and Bright Water; A Short History of Indians in Canada; The Back of the Turtle (winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction); The Inconvenient Indian (winner of the RBC Taylor Prize); Indians on Vacation; Sufferance; and the poetry collection 77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin. A Companion of the Order of Canada and the recipient of a National Aboriginal Achievement Award, Thomas King lives in Guelph, Ontario.

 

From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of Sufferance and Indians on Vacation

Can a reality TV show solve a cold case?

When a TV producer asks Thumps to assist with an episode about a local woman from a wealthy family whose death was ruled “misadventure,” he is reluctant to get involved. Then the producer dies in the exact same manner, and Thumps finds himself solving two cases.

The crew of Malice Aforethought, a true-crime reality-TV show, shows up in Chinook to do an episode about the death of Trudy Samuels. Trudy’s death had originally been ruled accidental, but with ratings in mind, one of the producers, Nina Maslow, wants to prove it was murder?and she wants Thumps to help. Thumps is reluctant to get involved. But then Nina dies in the exact same place and in the exact same way as Trudy. Are the two deaths related? Or are there two murderers on the loose in Chinook? Thumps uses Nina’s Malice Aforethought files to try to fit the pieces of the puzzle together, and in the process discovers that the producer had already started work on another case that is close to Thumps’s heart: the Obsidian murders.

ISBN: 9781443455176
Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers
On Sale: Jan 29, 2019
List price: $22.99
No of pages: 400
Trim Size: 4.710 in (w) x 7.170 in (h) x 1.040 in (d)
BISAC 1: FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General
BISAC 2: FICTION / Indigenous/General (see also Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island or AI/AN)
BISAC 3: FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural

Thomas King

Biography

THOMAS KING is an award-winning writer and photographer. His critically acclaimed, bestselling books include Aliens on the Moon; Medicine River; Green Grass; Running Water; One Good Story; That One; Truth and Bright Water; A Short History of Indians in Canada; The Back of the Turtle (winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction); The Inconvenient Indian (winner of the RBC Taylor Prize); Indians on Vacation; Sufferance; and the poetry collection 77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin. A Companion of the Order of Canada and the recipient of a National Aboriginal Achievement Award, Thomas King lives in Guelph, Ontario.