Amateur detective Marc LeBlanc takes on a little genealogical research for a friend. The work seems simple at first, but the path leads through dark and dangerous spaces, bringing Marc to a conclusion he neither expected nor wanted.
Jeremy Akerman is an adoptive Nova Scotian who has lived in the province since 1964. In that time he has been an archaeologist, a radio announcer, a politician, a senior civil servant, a newspaper editor and a film actor.He is a painter of landscapes and portraits, a singer of Irish folk songs, a lover of wine, and a devotee of history, especially of the British Labour Party.