The abduction of a young woman in 1858 ends in Toronto thirty-eight
years later--in murder.
In 1858, a young woman on her honeymoon is forcibly abducted and taken
across the border from Canada and sold into slavery. Thirty-eight years
later, Detective Murdoch is working on a murder case that will take all
of his resourcefulness to solve. The owner of one of Toronto's livery
stables has been found dead. He has been horsewhipped and left hanging
from his wrists in his tack room, and his wife claims that a
considerable sum of money has been stolen. Then a second man is also
murdered, his body strangely tied as if he were a rebellious slave.
Murdoch has to find out whether Toronto's small "colored" community has
a vicious murderer in its midst--an investigation that puts his own life
in danger. Maureen Jennings's trademark in her popular and acclaimed
Detective Murdoch series is to reveal a long-forgotten facet about life
in the city that dispels any notion that it really ever was "Toronto the
Good." As well, in A Journeyman to Grief, an exceptionally well
plotted and engrossing story, she shows just how a great harm committed
in the past can erupt fatally in the present.
