Unexpected challenges for Windflower!

Too Close for Comfort (Sgt. Windflower Mystery #15) by Mike Martin  

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Unexpected challenges for Windflower! So our favourite Canadian Mountie is back again confronting danger. Fires are being lit in abandoned houses around Grand Bank, Newfoundland. A new character is introduced, Constable Samira Gupta, who’s been working on community liaison. And yes, she quotes Tagore. 

The community’s anxious. Wildflower has to calm the residents whilst hunting down the arsonist. This time though a body is discovered in the wreckage. The situation ratchets up to a whole ‘nother level. Something’s off! Dr. Danette White’s  report says death was caused by a bullet, not the fire. What! Now, Windflower has an additional worry!

Suddenly there’s a flurry of communication between Grand Bank, St John’s, the French island Saint Pierre and Interpol.

Rumours of a gold heist in Toronto, Ontario some time back, biker gang involvement, and it seems some very dangerous people, have police worried.

Windflower’s animal allies in the Spirit World show up, encouraging and warning. Windflower is reminded again of following smudging practices, to give thanks for what he can in all situations.

Windflower and Eddie Tizzard are in deep in the middle of it all as a hostage situation develops. So much is happening!

Meanwhile the discovery of who the arsonist is rocks the community.

Once again we see the drama of an ordinary life, led by an extraordinary man, play out in the community he loves—old friends and new. A place where people can be given second chances, can be enfolded. Bright is the idea of the bigger communal picture encompassing all. From acquaintances and friends meeting at the local coffee shop, friends sharing food, sharing values, sharing  literary quotes, companionship between people from very different cultures, people turning out when the community’s in need—it warms the soul. A community and all its varying microcosms that I’ve come to appreciate and value.

At another level, time and time I’m taken back to the beauty of Newfoundland. Exquisite! Well described Martin.

A Mike Martin ARC. Many thanks to the author.