The Inspector Green Series
The Inspector Green series is set in Canada's Capital, a city
of rich cultural and geographical diversity, and features the
impetuous, exasperating Ottawa Police Inspector Michael Green,
whose passion for justice and love of the hunt often conflicts
with family, friends and police protocol. There are currently
four novels in the series, with the fifth due for release in
the Fall of 2006.
Coming in the Fall of
2006...
Honour Among Men
An Inspector Green Mystery
RendezVous Press, Toronto, 2006
When
an unidentified woman is drowned in the Ottawa River almost within
sight of Parliament Hill, she has in her possession a train ticket
from Halifax and a Medal for Bravery awarded during a 1993 peacekeeping
mission in Yugoslavia. The investigation leads Green to Nova
Scotia, where he learns she was the witness to her fiance's killing
in a bar fight ten years earlier.
As Green and his team dig deeper into the military past, one
of his detectives is brutally beaten, a street person disappears
and Green finds himself sucked not only into the murky past of
a peacekeeping unit but into the high-stakes present of a federal
election race. What dark crime was committed in Yugoslavia more
than a decade ago? Was someone still killing to prevent that
secret from coming to light? And does the diary of a dead soldier
hold the key?
View an excerpt from Honour
Among Men...
Winner of 2005 Arthur Ellis
Award for Best Novel!!
Fifth Son
An Inspector Green Mystery
RendezVous Press, Toronto, 2004
Accident
or suicide? That's the question facing Inspector Green when a
vagrant returns to his childhood village after twenty years and
falls to his death from the bell tower of an abandonned church.
Villages identify the man as one of five sons from a farm family
that was once close-knit and prosperous, but when Green tries
to track down the missing sons, he finds only tragedy, madness,
death.
"One exceptional mystery, with even more complex characters
and tighter plotting. Fradkin's forte is the emotional cost
of crime." - Ottawa Citizen
"All works beautifully right up to the twist at the end.
The Inspector Green series gets better with every book." - The
Globe and Mail
"A character-driven psychological thriller that's a page
turner from page one." - Midwest Book Review
View an excerpt from Fifth
Son...
Released in Fall 2003...
Mist Walker
An Inspector Green Mystery
RendezVous Press, Toronto, 2003 ISBN: 1-894917-03-0
Innocent
scapegoat or monster manipulator? An idealistic young teacher
is accused of molesting a young schoolgirl and acquitted in a
sensational case that left the truth hidden and the teacher's
life in tatters. Ten years later, his distraught confidante walks
into Ottawa Police Inspector Michael Green's office insisting
that he has vanished. Green's curiosity is piqued when he discovers
that the teacher left behind his beloved dog and an apartment
crammed with research related to his case. Has he fled to escape
the wrath of victims, new or old? Or was he innocent all along
and spent the last ten years trying to clear his name?
"Fradkin leads us through an unsettlingly realistic maze that
lays bare the minefields surrounding pedophilia. But she does
it with sensitivity, without sensationalism, and with a plot
with legs. Mist Walker is the gold standard for the series." - Ottawa
Citizen
"Fradkin's writing captures it all. Great narrative, dialogue
and suspense."
- Reviewing the Evidence
"this powerful novel...should not be missed. Mist Walker is
a great original work."
- I Love a Mystery
View an excerpt from Mist
Walker...
Shortlisted for 2003 Arthur
Ellis Award for Best Novel!!
Once Upon a Time
An Inspector Green Mystery
RendezVous Press, Toronto, 2002 ISBN: 0-929141-84-9
When
an old man is found frozen to death in a hospital parking lot,
Ottawa Police Inspector Michael Green does not accept the official
verdict of death by natural causes. His own investigation draws
him deep into buried secrets from World War II and onto a personal
journey of discovery into his own past.
"Once Upon a Time is so much more than a mystery; it
is a story about people pushed to the edge, about families,
about desperation, about love. Rarely does one find such depth
in a novel of any type."
- Storyteller Magazine
"Mystery fans can rejoice; Once Upon a Time is prime
crime."
- Fearless Book Reviews
"brings the legacy of the Holocaust centre stage...the
events and the people come alive on the page" - Quill & Quire
View an excerpt from Once
Upon a Time...
Released in Fall 2000...
Do or Die
An Inspector Green Mystery
RendezVous Press, Toronto, 2000, IBSN 0-929141-78-4
When
a wealthy, popular graduate student is murdered in the university
library, Ottawa Police Inspector Michael Green is drawn into
the competitive and elitist world of university politics, professional
rivalries and personal passions. Struggling to balance the needs
of the case with the demands of his rocky marriage and the impatience
of his superiors, he finds himself making mistakes that could
cost more lives...
"a stunningly well-written novel" - MidWest
Book Review
"a perfect blend of mystery and suspense" - Charlotte
Austin Review
"interesting characters, plenty of local colour, a clever
plot that keeps the reader guessing" - Canadian Book
Review Annual
View an excerpt from Do
or Die... |