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Guns Across the River: A Wakeland Novel
Sam Wiebe’s gripping sixth Wakeland novel delivers a taut, atmospheric mystery that dives into corruption, crime and family secrets deeply rooted in Vancouver’s underworld.
On a dark night in False Creek, a distraught young woman jumps from the Granville Bridge. PI Dave Wakeland rescues Nicola Havoc from the water. Yet what seems like attempted suicide is even more sinister: Nicola is running away from someone. But who?
Soon Wakeland and his partner Jeff Chen are pulled into a case that leads from Vancouver’s back alleys to the hills of the Fraser Valley. Nicola may hold the key to unlocking a billion-dollar construction scandal and a gun-running ring—if Wakeland can protect her from her own violent family.
On a dark night in False Creek, a distraught young woman jumps from the Granville Bridge. PI Dave Wakeland rescues Nicola Havoc from the water. Yet what seems like attempted suicide is even more sinister: Nicola is running away from someone. But who?
Soon Wakeland and his partner Jeff Chen are pulled into a case that leads from Vancouver’s back alleys to the hills of the Fraser Valley. Nicola may hold the key to unlocking a billion-dollar construction scandal and a gun-running ring—if Wakeland can protect her from her own violent family.
304 pages, Paperback
Published March 31, 2026
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Sam Wiebe
23 books180 followersSam Wiebe is the author of CUT YOU DOWN, INVISIBLE DEAD, and LAST OF THE INDEPENDENTS. He lives in Vancouver.
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I don't know what bugged me about this book.
Am I burned out on mystery or is Dave Wakeland in dire need of creative reinvention? Because the core principle of mystery series is to create variation on the same terms and Sam Wiebe's Wakeland novels always rely on plausibility and British Columbia culture in order to renew themselves, but this felt a little impersonal? Gun running, a runaway teenager trying to save her deadbeat dad from herself. This feels like it happened a couple times before.
When does a character stops being himself and when does he start being a conduit for things to happen around him? There's a definite market for that, but this is both unarguably competent and the least character driven thing Sam Wiebe has written. I'd love him to slow it down and get atmospheric again, but maybe I'm the one moving away from what he does.
Am I burned out on mystery or is Dave Wakeland in dire need of creative reinvention? Because the core principle of mystery series is to create variation on the same terms and Sam Wiebe's Wakeland novels always rely on plausibility and British Columbia culture in order to renew themselves, but this felt a little impersonal? Gun running, a runaway teenager trying to save her deadbeat dad from herself. This feels like it happened a couple times before.
When does a character stops being himself and when does he start being a conduit for things to happen around him? There's a definite market for that, but this is both unarguably competent and the least character driven thing Sam Wiebe has written. I'd love him to slow it down and get atmospheric again, but maybe I'm the one moving away from what he does.
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