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The Cost of a Hostage: A Lane Winslow Mystery
Paperback
Series: Lane Winslow Mystery, Book 12
Publisher Price: $19.95
ISBN13: 9781771514545
Publisher: Touchwood Editions
Published: Apr 29 2025
Pages: 464
Weight: 0.93
Height: 1.50 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.40
Language: English
A Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, and CBC Books Bestseller
Iona Whishaw's Lane Winslow is much more than B.C.'s answer to Armand Gamache. A smalltown sleuth with a background in international espionage, Winslow's latest escapade takes her from Nelson to France and Mexico on her most thrilling adventure yet. --Sam Wiebe, author of The Last Exile and the B.C. Bestseller Ocean Drive
The latest mystery in the series Publishers Weekly calls highly entertaining sees Lane trekking through Mexico while the team back in Nelson pursue an open and shut and then open again kidnapping.
It's a slow August morning in King's Cove. Lane has a book to read and a lawn that needs mowing. At the Nelson Police Station her husband, Inspector Darling, and his team are tidying their desks during a rare lull. Then Lane receives a call with news that Darling's brother Bob has gone missing from a mining camp in Mexico and the police station is visited by the frantic mother of a boy kidnapped from his bedroom.
From bustling Mexico City, through the desert and into the mountain range beyond, Darling and Lane's search for Bob puts them out of the realm of the law and at the mercy of a local bandido. Meanwhile Lane is certain she's recognized someone from her past she'd rather forget.
Back in the Kootenays, both kidnapper and kid turn up across the lake in Creston and it appears to be case closed--until a body is found mangled in the paddlewheel of a ferry boat. Plans for Ames's wedding are taking shape, and Terrell's favourite soon-to-be police officer April has a chance to prove her mettle. The latest Winslow mystery questions the roles of men and women, husbands and wives, and of course a certain police inspector and King's Cove's resident sleuth.
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