![]() ![]() ![]() Erin fills the rest with benevolent largesse, majestically smug like a tsarina. It is obvious from the photos, too-his shoulders span half the frame. More than once, an apt simile tickled the funny bone, such as the description of a car as “small and cramped, like a space capsule on course for re-entry,” while others hinted at malice, such as Laurie’s observations about her ex, Nate, and his wife, Erin: Nacheva has a gift for imagery that brings characters alive, using language that sparks the imagination. Most of the residents of Solway welcome her back with open arms, but the ghosts of the past are not quite so forgiving. It’s a good thing she no longer has feelings for her still attractive and not-so-happily married ex-boyfriend, or so she insists. ![]() When given an opportunity to investigate an even colder case in the same small town where her friend went missing, Laurie jumps at the chance to revisit her past. In Fault Lines, Toronto-based reporter Laurie Arbo is haunted by the unsolved disappearance of her best friend seven years earlier. In her debut novel, Tsveti Nacheva has crafted a cleverly twisted piece of Canadian noir, a genre that I have just now discovered, to my great delight. ![]()
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