Who Lies in Wait

<p><em style=background-color: initial; color: rgba(255 0 0 1)>You can run but you can't hide ... forever.</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(43 37 39 1)>On a cold January evening Detective Liam Hunter and his partner are called to investigate the discovery of a woman's body in the woods on the outskirts of Ottawa. She's the missing fiancée of a wealthy businessman twice her age who claims to know nothing about her murky past.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(43 37 39 1)>That same evening a young woman escapes from a downtown condo where she's been held captive. Eighteen-year-old Sara McGowan takes the fleeing woman under her wing only to become the target of the trafficking ring desperate to get her back.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(43 37 39 1)>Meanwhile reporter Ella Tate is attempting to track down an anonymous source who claims to have evidence of illegal activity that implicates people in high positions - people who will do anything to protect their reputations.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(43 37 39 1)>The stakes mount and lives collide as Hunter and Tate desperately work to solve a murder with tentacles more far-reaching than either can imagine.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(43 37 39 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The question is: who will survive this web of secrets unscathed?</span></p><p></p><p><strong>Reviews:</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(43 37 39 1); background-color: initial>Who Lies in Wait Brenda Chapman's riveting new Hunter and Tate mystery opens at night in a frozen forest outside Ottawa. You can almost feel the frost as Detective Liam Hunter and his partner view the body of a murdered woman. Chapman's evocation of winter is so vivid that it's almost a character. The story is littered with red herrings and unexpected twists. This compulsively readable tale will keep you up past your bedtime as you try to unravel the mesmerizing mystery.  </span><strong style=color: rgba(43 37 39 1); background-color: initial>- Don Butler author of Norman's Conquest</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(43 37 39 1); background-color: initial>With </span><em style=color: rgba(43 37 39 1); background-color: initial>WHO LIES IN WAIT</em><span style=color: rgba(43 37 39 1); background-color: initial> Brenda Chapman's fourth novel in her Hunter and Tate mystery series the Ottawa author has crafted a twisty expertly plotted page turner grounded in a wonderfully evocative sense of place with richly developed characters that confirm Chapman's place as one of Canada's doyennes of crime fiction.</span><span style=color: rgba(43 37 39 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> </span><strong style=color: rgba(43 37 39 1); background-color: initial>- John Delacourt author of The Black State</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(43 37 39 1); background-color: initial>The story is complex and compelling while further developing the various characters and their arcs. So well done! </span><em style=color: rgba(43 37 39 1); background-color: initial> </em><strong style=color: rgba(43 37 39 1); background-color: initial>- Allister Thompson Editor</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>