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Michael James Stewart
Category:
Mystery/Suspense
Publisher: Amazon/CreateSpace
ISBN-10: 1466350180
Type: Fiction
Pages: 83
Copyright: Jan 29, 2012
ISBN-13: 9781466350182
Price: $2.22 (eBook)
Missingl for 27 years, his body is found in garbage bin near Abbey in Toronto, Canada.
Although The First Stone is based on the files of the world famous Faison Quay’s exploits solving crimes, which directly or indirectly involve friends, it is unlike any of the other Faison Quay murder mystery series because of its’ uniquely ‘dark’ edge. Faison Quay’s friend, Detective Sergeant Gregor Ferguson, of the Toronto Police Service, is initially assigned to investigate the discovery of a man’s body, which had been found in a City of Toronto garbage bin outside the Abbey of Perpetual Blessings. In spite of discovering the man had been missing for twenty-seven years, Gregor is ordered to stop the investigation when the Coroner announces the cause of death to be Cancer.
Not satisfied that he must abandon the case, but unable to officially continue investigating, Gregor asks Faison Quay if he will continue. Faison agrees and immediately involves the full force of one of his many companies, Key Security International, to assist. Faison Quay quickly discovers a web of nefarious situations that only he can bring to bay, before The First Stone.
Excerpt
“Forty-two years ago, seemingly out of nowhere, a twenty-five year-old woman, calling herself Mother Benedictus, suddenly appeared out of nowhere to become the power behind the construction of a new Abbey in the north-eastern corner of Toronto on a former farm. All of the zoning application had been carried out by a lawyer who has been dead for over thirty years; and, the architect who designed the Abbey has been dead for thirty-eight years.
“At first, there was Mother Benedictus and nine other Nuns; all aged between twenty and thirty; and, they all lived in temporary trailers located on the Abbey property, while the Abbey was being constructed, which took seventeen months.
“Within six months of completion, the number of occupants ballooned from the original ten to forty-one; then, for the following three years the numbers grew to approximately one hundred and fifty.
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