Down Country

Criminologist and amateur detective Rachel Tile---described by Rick Blechta, award-winning author of the Pratt & Ellis Mysteries, as "an out-of-the-ordinary protagonist who thinks too much . . . and not enough"---is back! This time she's investigating a university colleague who's wildly successful in securing research grants to study organized crime, but who may be doing a little bit more than just writing about the subject. The trail leads her to the infamous Texas Killing Fields, where she uncovers a tangled tale of deceit, murder, and misdirection, and evidence her colleague may have sold his soul to the devil.

In Down Country, Tepperman draws on his long experience of academic life and his encyclopedic knowledge of sociology and criminology to craft a fast-moving mystery that takes the reader from Toronto to Texas and beyond.

PRAISE FOR DOWN COUNTRY

Down Country is an academic thriller that unflinchingly explores the world of criminology and the ethics of what happens when the researchers get too close to the criminals and wobble when walking on that thin line. A great study of society's obsession with crime. ---Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson, Edgar nominated author of The Patrick Bird Mystery Series

PRAISE FOR DEADLY DONATION, THE FIRST RACHEL TILE MYSTERY

"A cracking good read! Lorne Tepperman keeps the pages turning." -Lars Osberg, author of The Age of Increasing Inequality: The Astonishing Rise of Canada's 1%

"If you like 'whodunit' crime fiction in a Canadian (read Toronto) setting, there is much to savour in this densely plotted saga." -Julian Tanner, author of Teenage Troubles

"A powerful and mesmerizing gamble of a book, seen with the wise eye of a master observer!" -Murray Pomerance, author of A King of Infinite Space

"Deadly Donation is much more than a whodunit. It is a thoughtful meditation on truth, consequences, character and life's meaning." -Michael Adams, author of Sex in the Snow and Fire and Ice