The Walker on the Cape: Sgt. Windflower Mystery Series, Book 1

by Mike Martin, Francis G. Kearney (Narrator)

A man's body is found on the Cape in a small fishing community on the East Coast. At first, everyone thinks it's a heart attack or stroke. But then it is discovered that he was poisoned. Who would do this and why?

Finding that out falls to Sergeant Winston Windflower of the RCMP along with his trusted sidekick, Eddie Tizzard. Along the way, they discover that there are many more secrets hidden in this small community and powerful people who want to keep it that way.

Windflower also discovers two more a love of living in a small community that is completely different from his upbringing in a remote Indian reserve and maybe the love of his life. He gets a taste of East Coast food and hospitality as well as a sense of how crime and corruption can linger beneath the surface or hide in the thick blanket of fog that sometimes creeps in from the nearby Atlantic Ocean.

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Published March 18, 2019

About the author

Mike Martin is a freelance writer and workplace wellness consultant. He has written and published thousands of articles about workplace issues for magazines and publications in Canada, the United States and New Zealand. He has worked in human resources for over thirty years and has experience both as a senior manager and a union representative. For the past fifteen years he has worked with dozens of small, medium and large organizations in the areas of workplace intervention and conflict management.

Reviews

[Beckiezra · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some of this rating is just my attitude today, but overall this was pretty boring and the town and characters weren’t very interesting to me. A First Nation Mountie in a small Newfoundland town has potential but the case just wasn’t very satisfying, someone poisoned because some other guy is a smuggler of cigarettes and cocaine, that guy killed by the secret son of the poisoned guy, it should’ve been more exciting. It felt very Canadian and I did appreciate the bits of his spiritual practices. The romance felt perfunctory and unnecessary. A police force solving a murder rather than a random townsperson could’ve been appealing for me, but the procedural stuff was just meh.

A relaxing quick read for someone who likes Newfoundland, small town police procedurals, a little native representation in a mystery, or what feels like old people romance though I don’t actually know what the main character’s age is.

[Pam · Rating 4 out of 5]

4/B good start to a series!