Abby Faria Mystery Blog: April 2010

From The Author

Welcome to the blog for The Abby Faria Mysteries published by Sumach Press/CSPI. I am very interested in your

comments and questions. If you are having any trouble accessing these books, please let me know.
I am currently working on a third adventure with Abby.
This will take her deep into Toronto's Little Italy and, once again, she will find herself trying to help a very close friend.
I hope you enjoy the books and find this blog a helpful resource.
Have fun! I look forward to questions for Abby or Vivian.

Sincerely Vivian Meyer

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Enoch Turner Reading - Poster

Malice, Mystery and Murder at the Enoch Turner Schoolhouse!

Enoch Turner Schoolhouse Foundation presents Arts in the Old Town
A two-part reading series featuring six Toronto mystery authors!

Join us for two nights of whodunit s set in Toronto! Discover

Whose mystery involves a twenty-year old corpse?
Whose detective novel mentions Enoch Turner Schoolhouse?
Whose sleuth lives at Bathurst and College?
Whose suspect lives in a beautiful home in Rosedale?
Which author took a wild ride through Kensington?
Which author’s mysteries hit just the right note?

Part One: Wednesday April 7, 2010

Refreshments 6:30 pm Readings and Q & A 7 pm .

Featured authors: Rick Blechta, Jill Edmondson, Caro Soles

Part Two: Wednesday April 21, 2010

Refreshments 6:30 pm Readings and Q & A 7 pm

Featured authors: Mel Bradshaw, Liz Brady, Vivian Meyer

Location: 106 Trinity Street, Toronto (King and Parliament)

Tickets: $15 and $12 (Members) or $28/$22 for both evenings

Reservations: 416-863-0010 or linda.mclean[at]heritagetrust.on.ca

www.enochturnerschoolhouse.ca

Ragged Chain

Bicycle courier and fledgling private investigator, Abby Faria, takes a well-deserved vacation on Peregrine Island in BC’s magnificent Desolation Sound. When a new friend is charged with the murder of a logging company magnate killed in his own clear cut, Abby feels compelled to help out. Far from the comfort of her Kensington Market home, Abby is challenged to decode the complex web of island relationships and what was intended to be a simple cycling holiday quickly escalates into a dangerous test of Abby’s abilities.

Bottom Bracket

In her gritty off-the-wall mystery Bottom Bracket, Vivian Meyer gives us an inside look at alternative lifestyles in Toronto's colourful Kensington Market neighbourhood. Feminist and urban-space activist Abby Faria bike-couriers packages around downtown Toronto to support her expensive bicycle habit. When a brutal murder takes place in the Market just a few houses down from her own apartment, Abby decides to enlist the help of her Market friends: together they protect a frightened young prostitute, fight gentrification in the Market and stand up for the rights of the dispossessed. Along the way, Abby indulges in great coffee, fine bicycles and one or two good men.

Never one to mind her own business, she runs into trouble when she comes up against the world of organized drug and female sex trafficking. Between dodging homicidal cars and attending Save the Neighbourhood meetings, it's all Abby can do to stay one step ahead of the bad guys. Then it all becomes personal when Abby discovers that the very people she is pursuing may have had a hand in a past misfortune of her own.

Meyer draws on her own savvy experience of Market life and youth culture to imbue her characters with authenticity and spice. Full of unexpected plot twists, memorable characters and down-and-dirty detail, Bottom Bracket is also a thought-provoking exploration of inner-city issues in contemporary times.

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