Linda Moore's long-awaited sequel to Foul Deeds is another highly
engaging mix of art and environmental justice. Finally working a real
job as a researcher for the Public Prosecution Service, Roz is on her
first paid vacation. She has rented a cottage on Nova Scotia's beautiful
Minas Basin with plans to explore ideas for her next theatre production.
Accompanied by her cat and a stack of Beckett plays, she has no sooner
settled in than she spots what looks like a woman's body tangled in the
roots of a floating tree. Before the local RCMP can send a boat out, the
body is retrieved by helicopter, and Roz watches it disappear over North
Mountain. It's time to call in her old sleuthing partner, McBride.
When McBride completely disappears, Roz and her longtime theatre friend
Sophie roam the backroads and small towns of the Annapolis Valley in
search of clues, narrowing in on the out-of-the-way quarry no one seems
to want them to visit, the tanker trunks that nearly run them off the
road, and a young journalist who seems to have come too close to the
truth.
The Fundy Vault is a lightning-paced literary mystery that will keep
the heart pumping and the brain ticking long after the final page.