Speak Ill of the Living
$35.35
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
7 February 2008
Summary
Everybody thought the banker surprised by car-jackers was dead and buried until a photograph of him taken by his captors turns up. If the banker is alive, then whose ashes are buried in his grave? Eddie’s chase after the story takes him across many neighborhoods of his home and crime beat, Lowell, Massachusetts, and deep into his own famiy’s dark secrets. What he hears are the echoes of a forgotten crime. What he finds are bodies blocking his path…. Someone is killing off his sources. High tension, dark doings, and a real surprise mark this exciting novel.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781590585085 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1590585089 |
| Author: | Mark Arsenault |
| Publisher: | Sourcebooks, Inc |
| Imprint: | Poisoned Pen Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 7 February 2008 |
| Weight: | 345g |
| Series: | Eddie Bourque |
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Critics Review
Could the working class towns of New England be the setting for a new mystery subgenre? There are Archer Mayor’s books about Vermont cop Joe Gunther, and now Mark Arsenault patrols the shabby streets of Lowell,
Massachusetts in his second novel about reporter and teacher Eddie Borque - a man who believes that newpapers are the highest form of journalism.
When a local banker who was carjacked and then burned to death six months before reappears (in a new photograph sent to his wife), Eddie writes a high-profile story for the Associated Press. This results in a letter from Borque’s older brother Hank, a man he’s never met who is serving a life sentence for murder. I know who’s doing this, Hank writes from prison, sending Bourque off on a personal and professional journey. Arsenault’s plot is intriguing, but what you’ll remember most is the conviction that Eddie brings to his newspaper work. – Dick Adler, Crime Watch Columnist, ChicagoTribune 2/6/2005
Mark Arsenault
MARK ARSENAULT has been a reporter since 1989 and presently covers state politics for “The Providence Journal” in Rhode Island. His previous novels include the Shamus finalist “Spiked” and “Speak Ill of the Living,” He lives in Rhode Island. Please visit his Web site at
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