THE ALLEY a murder mystery fresh out of British Columbia by Canadian author, Kathy Garthwaite.  A peaceful day in Castlecrest, a coastal town on Vancouver Island, is interrupted when a gunshot rings out from a jewellery store. Crime is so rare in the area that only RCMP Sergeant Marlowe Flint and a few others have […]

Kathy Garthwaite’s writing style perfectly matches the setting for her books. There is a dreamy, almost ethereal tone that conjures up the majesty of the landscape of Vancouver Island and its relative isolation. The detectives too approach matters somewhat askance, patiently exploring the conundrum of a death on the coastline, probing the evidence and their […]