The Concrete Vineyard

Description

Why would anyone want to murder one of the most respected senior citizens Niagara-on-the-Lake has ever had? Retired history professor Edward Mitchell was surely not long for the grave, so why would someone risk life in prison to kill him? Picking up the clues is the reluctant Homicide Chief Detective, Bryan Dee. Thinking he might be out of his depth, he is happy to enlist the aid of his friend, Kris Gage. But when Dee reads the deceased’s last entry in his diary, “time to take care of K. Gage,” he becomes torn between investigation and friendship.

As an urban planner, Gage is used to the bureaucracy of planning. Following the money, he finds himself in the middle of corrupt developers who seek to take all the charm out of the area. Over 200 years after the War of 1812, is Niagara-on-the-Lake, once again, on-the-take?