A Place of Secrets
Published on 25. October 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
302 pages
978-1-77086-798-7 (ISBN)
Description
A tragic double homicide, or a hidden serial killer? Sergeant Alice Morrow is determined to solve a mystery spanning sixty years.
When Evelyn Massey is found dead in her home, it seems like an open-and-shut case: Evelyn was one hundred years old - natural causes. But Sergeant Alice Morrow learns that traces of poison were found in Mrs. Massey's blood. Then the remains of a body some sixty years deceased are discovered in the dead woman's basement.
Two murders, decades apart. Are they connected?
In the second book in Shane Peacock's award-winning Northern Gothic Mystery series, Morrow and former NYPD homicide detective Hugh Mercer unearth stunning truths about Evelyn Massey's life and learn of other disappearances over the past sixty years. Was a serial killer quietly at work in this Ontario town? Could the murderer still be among its citizens, hidden in plain sight?
When Evelyn Massey is found dead in her home, it seems like an open-and-shut case: Evelyn was one hundred years old - natural causes. But Sergeant Alice Morrow learns that traces of poison were found in Mrs. Massey's blood. Then the remains of a body some sixty years deceased are discovered in the dead woman's basement.
Two murders, decades apart. Are they connected?
In the second book in Shane Peacock's award-winning Northern Gothic Mystery series, Morrow and former NYPD homicide detective Hugh Mercer unearth stunning truths about Evelyn Massey's life and learn of other disappearances over the past sixty years. Was a serial killer quietly at work in this Ontario town? Could the murderer still be among its citizens, hidden in plain sight?
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Canada
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
With flaps
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
259 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-77086-798-7 (9781770867987)
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Shane Peacock has been published in twenty languages in eighteen countries. The first book in the Northern Gothic Mystery series, As We Forgive Others, was published in 2024 to great acclaim and won the Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence for Best Crime Novel Set in Canada. He has won the Junior Library Guild of America Selection seven times, the Arthur Ellis Award / CWC Award of Excellence three times, and has been shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award and the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award. His young adult novels include the Boy Sherlock Holmes series, the Dylan Maples Adventures, The Dark Missions of Edgar Brim trilogy, The Book of Us, and Show. He lives in Cobourg, Ontario, with his wife, journalist Sophie Kneisel.