Released in December of 2012, Alfred Cool's e-novel The 5 Cent Murder, set in 1973, follows a narrator who takes a chokerman job in a remote B.C. coastal logging camp. He soon realizes the company has hired work-release prisoners to fill out the full crew--including a dangerous, serial rapist. In this narrative comedy, the author captures the local color, danger and humour of those who did “run or die!” in logging camps, culminating in a confrontation for the finale of the story.
The 5-Cent Murder is in the style of Peter Trower’s fiction trilogy, part of a distinct West Coast fiction tradi more...
