Overexposed

Granville Island Mystery #2

by Michael Blair

Just when Vancouver commercial photographer Tom McCall thought he'd got his life back on track, a complete stranger shows up dead on the roof deck of his floating home. No one seems to know who he is, he has no ID, and there's not a mark on him. If that isn't bad enough, a prospective new client seems to have had one Botox injection too many, his ex-wife wants to take his daughter off to Australia for a year; and someone's leaving mutilated dolls on his front step.

And, of course, he's in lust again.

No wonder he's feeling a little overexposed.

300 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Michael Blair is a freelance technical writer/editor living in Montreal. Overexposed is his third mystery, a sequel to If Looks Could Kill, a finalist for the 1999 Chapters/Robertson Davies Prize and shortlisted for the 21 Quebec Writers Federation First Book Prize.

Series:
* Joe Shoe Mystery
* Granville Island Mystery

Reviews

[Alison C · Rating 2 out of 5]

Overexposed, by Michael Blair, is set around Granville Island in Vancouver, and concerns the trials and tribulations of commercial photographer Tom McCall, who on the day after his 40th birthday discovers the body of a stranger on the roof deck of his houseboat. Nobody knows who the man is, but a number of individuals start turning up to make life difficult for time because they appear to be certain that Tom knows about a mysterious package that the stranger allegedly had. Of course, Tom has no idea what is going on, but that doesn't prevent him from trying to figure it all out. Meanwhile, an old friend comes to stay with him, his ex-wife is planning to take their daughter to Australia for a year and a new client at work seems to be playing him for a fool. All just daily life for Tom, it seems.... This is evidently the third novel in a series that I've not run across before, but although the author refers to the plots of the other two books from time to time, I didn't find it necessary to search those out before being able to read this one. Definitely a lightweight story, but I enjoyed it, particularly because I know the areas of Vancouver that are described in the book and so I could picture the locations well. I doubt that I'll go out of my way to find the other two novels, but if I ran across them I think I'd pick them up....