Danger lurks!

All That Glitters (Sgt. Windflower Mystery #13) by Mike Martin

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Sgt. Winston Windflower has resigned from the RMCP and taken up a new post as the Community Safety Officer in Grand Bank, Newfoundland.

Carrie Evanchuck is assigned by the RMCP to liaise with Windflower and the communities involved.

As always family, food and good friends feature. I fairly drool from the food descriptions. The girls are growing up, are lively and greatly loved. Windflower’s loving patience is a gift to behold. His relationship with wife Shiela Hillier is solid and respectful.

Martin has a way of easing elements into the book that can be thought provoking, gently joyous, and fascinating.

Wildflower’s smudging and ceremonial smoking practices, important to keep him centred, are a gateway into First Nations practices and beliefs.

The reference to the faceless dolls great Uncle Frank brings for Windflower’s daughters are a reminder not only of those beliefs and stories, but of the many missing First Nations women of Canada.

All this combined with an unexplained death at Windflower’s B&B, a kidnapping, diamond smuggling and other events have Windflower unwillingly entrenched in RMCP activities than he wants to be. After all as a private citizen if anything happens to him there are no benefits in such situations. There’s bewildering changes in RCMP leadership and an accidental death that raises some eyebrows.

Couple all the action, peppered with quotes from both the Bard and Tagore, wisdom from Windflower’s dreaming and the wise, often enigmatic spirits he meets there, and we have another great Windflower read!

Thank you to Mike Martin for this ARC