Lament for Bonnie

Name: Lament for Bonnie
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Anne Emery
ISBN: 9781501939693

Author: Anne Emery

Series: Collins-Burke Mysteries #9

Narrator: Tandy Cronyn, Morgan Hallett, Erin Moon

Unabridged: 12 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/28/2016

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective

Synopsis

The ninth mystery in a series that "gets better with every book" (Globe and Mail) Twelve-year-old Bonnie MacDonald - the beloved stepdancing, fiddling youngest member of Cape Breton's famed Clan Donnie band - vanishes after a family party. There was no stranger spotted lurking around, but no one thinks for one minute that Bonnie ran away. Maura MacNeil, cousin to Clan Donnie, offers her husband's legal services to the family as the police search for the missing girl. But fame attracts some strange characters and Clan Donnie has groupies. So, it turns out, does lawyer and bluesman Monty Collins. Monty and Maura's daughter, Normie, is much closer to the action as she gets to know her cousins, learns things she wishes she never had, and has nightmares - visions? - that bring her no closer to finding Bonnie. Her spooky great-grandmother makes no secret of the fact that she senses the presence of evil in their village - the kind of evil RCMP Sergeant Pierre Maguire left Montreal to escape. But he finds that vein of darkness running beneath the beauty and vibrant culture of Cape Breton.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Wendy on January 14, 2017

All the usual characters are here; even though the story is set in Cape Breton. Emery's knowledge of English, French, Gaelic, and Latin are put to good use (and not in a show-off way). Lots to keep you going until the very last page!......more

Goodreads review by Becca on September 15, 2016

Anne Emery’s novel Lament for Bonnie is a mystery set in Cape Breton in 1994. Bonnie MacDonald, twelve-year-old singer, fiddler, and step-dancer in the popular celtic music band Clan Donnie and member of a sprawling Cape Breton family, has disappeared. The novel follows Bonnie’s family, community, a......more

Goodreads review by Jen on July 31, 2016

Lament for Bonnie by Anne Emery is set in Cape Breton, an island in Nova Scotia Province. Early settlers were part of the Highland Clearances, and these forced Scottish immigrants brought their highland music and traditions with them. The island is still famous for its Celtic music, and twelve-year-o......more

Goodreads review by Vontel on November 05, 2016

This book is apparently the 9th in a series of detective mysteries. I'm not sure that I have read any of them before. An interesting book, with many moving plot pieces. A little foreshadowing of ultimate ending, although details wait to the end. A lovely Atlantic coast mix of history of English, Sco......more