Bleeding Darkness, Brenda Chapman
Bleeding Darkness, Brenda Chapman
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Bleeding Darkness
A Stonechild and Rouleau Mystery

Author: Brenda Chapman

Narrator: Tara Yelle

Unabridged: 9 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dundurn Press

Published: 08/15/2023


Synopsis

Two murders, fourteen years apart, both shrouded in secrets.

David McKenna lies dying in a Kingston hospital, his children gathered from across the country to say a final goodbye. But the family reunion opens old wounds. David’s only daughter, Lauren, never recovered from the unsolved murder of her high school best friend fourteen years earlier — or the suspicion that her brother, Tristan, was behind it.

Before David breathes his last, Tristan’s pregnant wife disappears and the Major Crimes Unit is called in to help find her. With Kala Stonechild struggling to reconnect with her foster niece and Zach Woodhouse making trouble for Staff Sergeant Jacques Rouleau, tensions are running high on the team, but they must put their personal problems aside when a woman’s strangled body is found frozen on the Rideau Trail.

With a winter storm sweeping the shores of Lake Ontario, the team uncovers unspeakable betrayals that give more than one suspect a reason to kill …

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on March 14, 2023

Lots of suspects and plenty of reasons to kill! The most polite word for the McKenna family is “dysfunctional”. There are certainly other less clinical (and less polite) adjectives which one might use – mean-spirited, nasty, selfish, narcissistic, perhaps even ugly and evil. Lauren borders on normal......more

Goodreads review by Sue on June 03, 2018

This latest in the Stonechild and Rouleau series picks up with the same characters a few months after the action of the last volume. The primary people are in the same places except that Rouleau is now acting head of the department. His superior essentially ran off with his mistress for an undetermi......more

Goodreads review by Maria on January 17, 2023

Really interesting mystery that makes for a quick audiobook listen! If you’re someone who loves plot driven books and a classic police procedural, this is for you!......more

Goodreads review by Diane on May 27, 2022

We’ll plotted with lots of twists and turns Kala Stonechild is an intelligent and tenacious detective. Raising the troubled teenage daughter of her oldest friend and dealing with relationships with coworkers that complicate her work, she manages to find the hidden clues to two murders in the same fa......more

Goodreads review by Elite on September 18, 2018

Brilliant murder/mystery fleshed out to perfection Bleeding Darkness is one of the best murder mysteries I have ever read because each unit of characters has an interesting life story, all of which make up the whole picture of the book. The McKenna family, David and Evelyn, with their three children,......more