Darkest Before the Dawn

Darkest Before the Dawn by Mike Martin, Mystery, 280
pp.

Title: DARKEST BEFORE THE
DAWN

Author: Mike Martin

Publisher: Ottawa Press and
Publishing

Pages: 280

Genre: Mystery

Darkest Before the Dawn is the latest adventure of Sgt.
Winston

Windflower, a Mountie who finds himself surrounded by a new
family and a

new life in tiny
Grand Bank, Newfoundland. There are signs of trouble

that may disturb his pleasant life, including a series of
unsolved

break-ins and the lack of supports for young people in the
most trying

time of their lives. But there are always good friends, good
food and

the sense that if we all pull together, we can find a way to
get through

even the darkest
days.

Ghosts, mysterious deaths, and a new character enliven the
pages as

Windflower and Tizzard and the other police officers awaken
the secrets

that have been lying dormant in this sleepy little town. The
deeper they

dig the more they
find as the criminals they seek dive deeper behind

the curtains of anonymity and technology. But more than
anything, this

is a story of love and loss, of growing up and learning how
to grow old

gracefully. It is also about family and community and
looking after each

other. Of not giving
up hope just before the dawn.

Mike Martin was born in Newfoundland on the East Coast of
Canada and

now lives and works in Ottawa, Ontario. He is a long-time
freelance

writer and his articles and essays have appeared in
newspapers,

magazines and online across Canada as well as in the United
States and

New Zealand. He is the author of Change the Things
You Can: Dealing with Difficult People and has written a number of
short stories that have published in various publications including
Canadian Stories and Downhome
magazine.

The Walker on the Cape was his first
full fiction book and the premiere of the Sgt. Windflower Mystery Series. Other
books in the series include The Body on the T, Beneath the Surface, A
Twist of Fortune and A Long Ways from Home,
which was shortlisted for the Bony Blithe Light Mystery Award as the best light
mystery of the year. A Tangled Web was released in 2017
and the newest book in the series.is Darkest Before the
Dawn.

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