Monday, August 6, 2018

Review: When the Flood Falls (The Falls Mysteries #1) by J.E. Barnard



  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 552 KB
  • Print Length: 424 pages
  • Publisher: Dundurn (July 14 2018)
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B0759R4ZSY

Book Description

2016 Unhanged Arthur Award for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel — Winner

When a phantom stalker targets her friend, Lacey McCrae’s crime-busting skills are tested to their limits.

With her career in tatters and her marriage receding in the rear-view mirror, ex-RCMP corporal Lacey McCrae trades her uniform for a tool belt, and the Lower Mainland for the foothills west of Calgary. Amid the oil barons, hockey stars, and other high rollers who inhabit the wilderness playground is her old university roommate, Dee Phillips. Dee’s glossy life was shattered by a reckless driver; now she’s haunted by a nighttime prowler only she can hear.

As snowmelt swells the icy river, threatening the only bridge back to civilization, Lacey must make the call: assume Dee’s in danger and get her out of there, or decide the prowler is imaginary and stay, cut off from help if the bridge is swept away.

About the Author


J.E. Barnard’s first novella, Maddie Hatter and the Deadly Diamond, was a 2016 Prix Aurora finalist. When the Flood Falls won the Unhanged Arthur Ellis Award in 2016. She lives in Calgary.

My Review

When the Flood Falls is the first book in the Falls Mystery Series by author J. E. Barnard.

When the Flood Falls is set outside of Calgary, Alberta in the small town of Bragg Creek. Bragg Creek is a wealthy enclave in the foothills. There is a river that runs through town that has caused wide spread devastation in the past from flooding. In the early stages of the book the river is rising!

Lacey McRae has recently retired from the RCMP and is setting a new path for herself. Staying with an old friend in Calgary and working as a security consultant brings Lacey to Bragg Creek.  A new museum is opening and the company Lacey works for is installing the security. An old friend of Lacey's, Dee, lives in Bragg Creek. She has had some prowler scares so Lacey stays with her.

I love books set in Canada. Barnard really brings the Bragg Creek area to life for the reader.

I found it a bit slow at first but the pace picked up and it was hard to put down.

Highly recommend When the Flood Falls. I'm am looking forward to the next book in the series.






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