Book Launch: Cod Only Knows by Hilary MacLeod

• What: Book Launch: Cod Only Knows by Hilary MacLeod
• When: Wednesday October 4 2017 17:00 to 00:00
• Where: The Parrott Centre
• Address: Loyalist College

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  Local author Hilary MacLeod is launching her sixth Shores murder mystery, Cod Only Knows. The series began in 2010 with Revenge of the Lobster Lover. It won a CBC Bookie Award for mystery in 2011, just a year before MacLeod retired after 22 years as a professor of Media Studies at Loyalist College. Retirement turned into a transition to a whole new career. The first book was followed by Mind Over Mussels, All is Clam, Something Fishy, Bodies and Sole, and now Cod Only Knows.

  The books are set in a small fishing village in Prince Edward Island, inspired by Sea View, PEI, MacLeod’s summer home since 1990.

  “The Shores series is as much about people and place as about plot. Each story stands alone, but the same characters inhabit book after book,” says MacLeod. There’s Gus Mack, the octogenarian quilter, who sees everything that goes on in the village from her big picture window. Hy McAllister is the “come-from-away” would-be sleuth who’s clumsy with corpses. “She trips on them, throws up on them and stumbles across them constantly,” MacLeod says. And Jane Jamieson is the by-the-book cop, who’s transforming into a maverick under the influence of the sea air, rural beauty and eccentricity of The Shores.

  In this latest Shores book, Cod Only Knows, ninety-year-old Abel Mack has gone fishin’ – and gone missing. He’s after a giant cod, the “one that got away” 30 years before, a 300 lb. fish that trails murder and mayhem in its wake. Mountie Jane Jamieson suspects Abel may be dead – by foul play or exposure. His wife Gus insists he’s alive and sure to return. But does Abel even exist outside Gus’s memory or imagination?

  Cod Only Knows will be launched Wednesday, October 4 at 5 pm at the Parrott Centre, Loyalist College, Belleville, Ontario. Everyone’s welcome to come celebrate.

  MacLeod has lived in the Prince Edward County and Belleville areas for 30 years.