Within a few days, Elizabeth Goode does indeed vanish from a café in town and all the witnesses have different accounts of the event. Her life now depends on the skills Mercer honed in the New York Police Department as a homicide detective and the down-to-earth abilities of local police officer Alice Morrow. Together they work to solve the mystery of the disappearance and get to Elizabeth before she is murdered; but they, too, are troubled by their own need for forgiveness, their desire for justice, and their passion for each other.
SHANE PEACOCK’s work has been published in nineteen countries and in seventeen languages. He has won two Arthur Ellis Awards, the Libris Award, the Geoffrey Bilson Award, and is a seven-time recipient of Junior Library Guild of America honors. His work for young adults includes The Book of Us, The Boy Sherlock Holmes series, The Dylan Maples Adventures, The Dark Missions of Edgar Brim mysteries, and the Seven series. For these books alone, he has won or been nominated for sixty awards, including the Governor General’s Literary Award and the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award.
As We Forgive Others, a Northern Gothic Mystery, is his first detective novel for adults. It will be followed by A Place of Secrets in 2025.
Shane lives in Cobourg, Ontario.