Power
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Wry, forthright Home and Garden reporter Robin MacFarland has somehow gotten herself?along with her best friend and investigative journalist colleague Cindy?assigned by their newspaper editor to examine the deep-rooted causes of homelessness in Toronto, Ontario. Their investigation quickly reveals the generational effects of a hydroelectric plant built in Quebec that displaced a large population of Indigenous people to Ontario with little to no support.
When the Premier of Ontario dies at Robin's family cottage in Muskoka, Robin sets about proving that he was murdered against a tide of objection from the local police force. Robin needs to figure out exactly how his death was disguised to look like an accident, what the premier's part was in a dirty web surrounding the creation of more electric power, who knocked him off, and finally, how all this will impact her family.
Power is the fourth installment in the Robin MacFarland Mystery series.
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Sky Curtis divides her time between Northern Ontario, Nova Scotia, and Toronto. She has worked as an editor, author, software designer, magazine writer, scriptwriter, poet, teacher, and children's writer.
Sky has published over a dozen books and is passionate about social justice issues and the environmment. Her poetry has appeared in several literary journals, including The Antigonish Review, Canadian Forum, and This Magazine. Her debut novel, and the first in the Robin MacFarland series, Flush: A Robin MacFarland Mystery, was published in 2017 and was shortlisted for the 2018 Arthur Ellis Award for Debut Crime Fiction. The second in the series, Plots: A Robin MacFarland Mystery, was published in 2018. The third book, Traps, was published in 2019. Power is the fourth book in the series.