Cherry Beach (limited edition)

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This is one of the best Canadian crime novels of this or any year . . . Toronto now takes its place with Los Angeles, New York, and Boston as a character in the action and its great.Margaret Cannon,Globe and MailA brutal murder exposes secret real estate deals, a corrupt police force, and the dark heart of a city simmering with unrest.When two girls are found murdered in a rundown Toronto highrise, Jamieson Abel and his partner are first on the scene. Abel is a law school dropout turned police detective chronically at odds with his colleagues and perpetually on the brink of being terminated, and Davis is the departments only female officer of colour. Both understand their being partnered as a form of banishment, but when the details of the murder go public at the start of an excruciatingly hot summer, they find themselves thrust into the centre of a front page investigation that will bring to a head the citys long history of shady real estate deals and racist disenfranchisement.Intricately plotted and brilliantly layered,Cherry Beachis a gripping literary crime novel that examines class, race, and corruption in the most multicultural city in the world.Praise forCherry BeachThis is one of the best Canadian crime novels of this or any year . . . Toronto now takes its place with Los Angeles, New York, and Boston as a character in the action and its great.Margaret Cannon,Globe and MailGillmor really knows his stuffin a dazzling range of areas. A layered portrait of a changing city in the guise of a gripping crime novel, for fans of Tana French and Dennis Lehane.Kirkus Reviews(starred review)A well-crafted police procedural with vibrant characters and a strong sense of place.Steven Beattie,Toronto StarInCherry Beach, Gillmor serves up a tense tale with numerous twists.Andrea Geary,Winnipeg Free Press[Gillmors] work . . . led him into worlds of crime and corruption. Now, hes writing smart, snappy fiction on the very same subjects.Edward Lander,Toronto LifeIf the dayglo film-filtered cover of an aging high rise on a summer day doesnt intrigue you, maybe a comparison toThe Wirebut make it Toronto will do the trick.Cherry Beachis a propulsive genre mash-up of Canadian crime and literary fiction. I love a good detective story, especially when it combines the fast-paced thrill of solving the mystery alongside two scrappy underdogs, coupled with carefully crafted prose referencing Walker Evans gas stations and mid-century Toronto. No one captures summer in the GTA quite like Don Gillmor.Robyn York, Beach Reads Bookshop (CIBA Booksellers List pick)A rundown Toronto neighborhood is already on edge when two high school girlsboth star students and athletes, one black and one whiteare murdered in the black girls family apartment. Two incompatible detectives are assigned the case; they rarely speak with one another. The media, politicians, community leaders, and a talented, prolific tagger ratchet up the heat of an already miserable summer. Gillmor has packed a lot of social angst into this slim, smart mystery.Kay Wosewick, Boswell Book Company (Milwaukee, WI)Praise forBreaking and EnteringIn a quiet story that takes place over only a few summer months, the Canadian author deftly converges doubt, infidelity and the fragility of family in a narrative that is both thrilling and relatable.New York TimesSurely the most interesting midlife crisis of the year.Marion Winik,Oprah DailyKnowledge is mostly sadness in this intelligent . . . book: No matter where Bea breaks in, she keeps finding herself.Sam Sacks,Wall Street JournalThe genius of this book is to capture the exact way a familiar world of aging parents and divorcing friends and nice charcuterie platters could go right around the bend . . . A smart, funny, and sneakily terrifying version of the way we live now. (Do not read without working air conditioning.)Kirkus Reviews(starred review)Gillmor succeeds at pulling you into the hopes, dreams, expectations, desires, anxieties and pathologies of his characters . . . Like jazz, the moments of tension in the book give away to moments of relief, only to return to building tension once more . . . reading it will strike a chord.David Moscrop,Globe and MailA devastating and droll portrait of middle age that will be instantly recognizable to the sandwich generation, stuck between kids and parents, and just generally stuck. Its a period of life that makes you want to do crazy things, and the only escape is other people.Stephen Marche, author ofThe Next Civil War