Speak for the Dead

By Amy Tector,

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“A literary joyride.” —Louise Penny, New York Times bestselling author of the Chief Inspector Gamache novels

More than ten years after The Foulest Things, murder and mayhem return to Ottawa in the highly-anticipated next installment of Amy Tector’s acclaimed Dominion Archives Mystery series.

It’s a stormy summer day when Ottawa…

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1 author picked Speak for the Dead as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I picked up Tector’s novel because it’s set in my hometown of Ottawa, and I kept reading because she’s crafted a wonderfully flawed character who just won’t quit.

Cate Spencer is a coroner who relies on two things: her instincts and too much scotch to numb her painful past. When a woman is found hanging in the vaults of an archives building, Cate arrives on the scene.

It looks like suicide, but Cate can’t bring herself to rule the death accidental. Not yet. Something’s not right. The more she digs, the more menace stalks her, and the more the past…

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