About the book
About the author
Gerald Lynch was born in Monaghan Ireland and grew up in Canada. The Dying Detective, the stand-alone concluding novel of a trilogy, has recently been published by Signature Editions. In 2017 Signature published Omphalos and in 2015 Missing Children. These novels were preceded by Troutstream, Exotic Dancers, and two books of short stories, Kisbey and One’s Company. A Professor of Canadian and Irish literatures at the University of Ottawa, in 2017 Gerald co-edited Alice Munro's Miraculous Art: Critical Essays. He has edited several other books and published many short stories, essays, and reviews, and had his work translated into a number of languages. He has also authored two books of non-fiction, Stephen Leacock: Humour and Humanity and The One and the Many: Canadian Short Story Cycles. He has been the recipient of a few awards, including the gold award for short fiction in Canada’s National Magazine Awards.
Excerpt
I smiled down at Shawn, who wasn’t there.
Reviews
“This is a bizarre, and in places very violent, mystery set in an imagined suburb of Ottawa. In his third work set in totally-normal appearing Troutstream, author Gerald Lynch takes us on a wild ride during a baking late-summer week…” >>
— John Brooke Author of the Aliette Nouvelle Mystery Series
“As tethered to the rest of the world as it is, Ottawa often feels like a small, even private, city. That’s why it can be so jarring to open a local book and find a character stepping into a park…” >>
— Eric Murphy Ottawa Life Magazine
“The case of the professor and the mystery novel
U of O professor releases his newest novel, Missing Children
While University of Ottawa English professor Gerald Lynch’s research focuses on Canadian and Irish fiction, his newly published…” >>
— Maitland Shaheen The Fulcrum
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$9.99
260 pages
Epub ISBN: 978-1-927426-80-7
Mobi ISBN: 978-1-927426-81-4
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