Böcker av Jeremy Akerman

In the first Marc LeBlanc mystery, a sudden death pulls Marc out of his comfortable life in Grand Pre and into a quest involving unexpected allies, unwelcome visitors, mysterious references in documents and on tombstones, and a hunt from one end of Nova Scotia to the other.

In December, 1917, Halifax, Nova Scotia suffered the largest human-made explosion before the atomic bomb when two ships, one loaded to the gunwales with munitions, collided in Halifax Harbour. Jeremy Akerman's novel sets the scene through the eyes of admirals and lovers, harbour pilots and telegraphers, those who fought to avert the disaster and those who had no idea what was about to happen to them.

Tom Aldridge, a rising politician in Nova Scotia, is used to juggling many tasks and bringing order out of chaos. He is as adept at steering government policy as he is at directing plays. But an unexpected opportunity comes into his life--and then a series of challenges. How much can he juggle?

Called home to Cape Breton by a family crisis, a Toronto policewoman finds herself drawn back into familiar complexities of local relationships, the possibility of romance, and a mystery or two. The story unfolds against the rich canvas of the people, land, and sea that make Cape Breton unique.

Comprising 41 works in verse, shape poems and abstract pieces written over a 20-year period, the volume's design is sensitive to the unique visual look of each poem. To introduce the book, editors Jeremy Akerman and Eileen Daly discuss with Peake the relationship between art and writing.