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: 08/01/2023


Synopsis

A deathbed gathering shakes family skeletons out of the closet, and revives a long-dormant killing spree Book Five of the Stonechild and Rouleau mysteries, which have sold over 5,600 copies Kala Stonechild is the first female First Nations sleuth in Canadian crime fiction Author’s last four novels garnered strong reviews and advance praise. Publishers Weekly called the third book in the series a “thoroughly enjoyable whodunit that will leave readers eager for the next installment” The first Stonechild and Rouleau mystery, Cold Mourning, was nominated for Arthur Ellis Best Crime Novel Author is well-connected in the crime-writing community as a member and past president of the Capital Crime Writers and the Crime Writers of Canada Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland murder mysteries, gave a great review of the fourth book in the series: "Great cast of characters and very clever plotting.... Altogether a very satisfying mystery!"

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