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    Fall From Grace

    Written by Wayne Arthurson

    Narrated by Graham Rowat

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Wayne Arthurson’s debut, Fall from Grace, marks him as a promising new voice in Canadian fiction. When Edmonton newspaper reporter Leo Desroches is assigned to cover the murder of an Aboriginal woman, his half-Cree heritage immediately identifies with the victim. Before long Leo discovers a pattern of murdered natives that goes back 20 years, and a police force that could not care less. Still fighting his own demons, Leo vows to uncover a brutal serial killer.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books Audio
    Release dateMar 1, 2013
    ISBN9781470340070
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    Fall From Grace
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    Wayne Arthurson

    Wayne Arthurson is the author of numerous books including The Red Chesterfield, winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novella and Fall from Grace, winner of the Alberta Readers’ Choice Award. The Traitors of Camp 133, the first book in the Sergeant Neumann mystery series, was a finalist for the High Plains Book Award for Best Indigenous Writer. He lives and writes in Edmonton, Alberta with his family.

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    • 4/5
      Leo Desroches is a reporter for an Edmonton newspaper. When we first meet him, at a crime scene in a field just outside the city, we are told little else, except that he has A Past. We learn more about him slowly, as the story develops. Since the narrative is in the first-person from Leo's viewpoint, he controls when and what information we receive.One of the first things he shares is that he is a descendant of the people who settled the area, not just those who came from Europe to hunt and trap, but those who crossed the Bering Strait, the aboriginals. We soon learn that he knows little of the native side of his heritage, his mother having only recently acquired treaty status.The book opens as he is invited by the ranking detective (in a move atypical for most law enforcement personnel) to view a murder scene in which the victim is a young native woman named Grace Cardinal. When his editor learns of this, he assigns Leo to write a story that shows the humanity of the victim.Completely coincidentally, the newspaper (which is never named) appoints Leo as their Aboriginal Issues reporter, and he meets people who had known Grace before she became a prostitute. As he delves into Grace's background, he realizes that there might be much more to the story than he'd first imagined.At the same time as he's investigating Grace's murder, he is attempting to rebuild his own life. Exactly why this rebuilding is necessary is also shared with us a little at a time, but it's not a spoiler to reveal that Leo once had a gambling problem, which caused his wife to divorce him and distance herself and their children from him. One of the reasons that Leo is working so hard to succeed at the newspaper is the possibility of rebuilding a relationship with his son and daughter.As well as being a well-constructed mystery and an extremely well-written story, Leo's story rings true to someone who grew up in the Edmonton area. Although Leo's editor would fire me for drifting into personal territory, I have experienced the bitterly cold winters and have seen the inner-city homeless (both native and non) huddling in the foyers of buildings to keep from freezing to death. It is very true that aboriginals who have visibly native features are treated very differently from others, and Arthurson handles the delicate subject matter with tact and grace. The continuing adventures of Leo Desroches are eagerly anticipated.
    • 4/5
      Leo Desroches is certainly down on his luck. On meds for personality disorders, a recovering gambler, he lost his family and his job due to his addictions. As a newspaper report, when a newspaper strike occurs, he's hired as a scab by an old acquaintance who Leo had trained in what seems like a lifetime ago.First on the scene of a dead body found in an isolated Edmonton, Canada field, Leo is allowed in the evidence tent on site. The victim is a young, native prostitute, Grace. This scoop gives Leo a chance to show his writing capabilities and he investigates to put a life to the body he saw. In interviewing Grace's friends and co-workers, he learns that there have been other such murders over the past 15 to 20 years. This news leads Leo on a mission to uncover whether there is a serial killer in their midst.Leo is an unusal character doing unusual things (which I won't divulge). He is on the receiving end of an inordinate number of beatings and some of his 'ah ha' moments weren't so apparent to this reader. And while most of our lives aren't as extreme has his, I imagine many people will relate to him.I liked this book, was surprised at the ending and look forward to Arthurson's next installment in the Leo Desroche series (I'm asusming it's a series.)
    • 5/5
      Adam Blaine is summoned from his job as a covert agent in Afghanistan when his father dies unexpectedly. Even in death, his narcissistic father manages to give the middle finger to the family one last time. Adam, the runaway son who left home 10 years before and never looked back, is named as executor of Ben's estate. In addition to the shock of his father's final disrespect, Adam is disturbed that the police think the death was a murder. When the police suspect his family, Adam doesn't really care if one of them did it, he just doesn't want them to be punished. They suffered enough when his father was alive. This is classic Richard North Patterson. I loved it from beginning to end. Dennis Boutsikaris is an excellent narrator. Even though his voice is sort of nasal, it works. :)
    • 5/5
      There are authors you read that give you a good story and then there are authors like Richard North Patterson, James Lee Burke, Lee Child and Vince Flynn (to name a few) who you KNOW that no matter what subject they choose to write about, you will be capitavated until the bitter end. I say "bitter" because you don't want these stories to end. Fall from Grace flows from the first sentence to the last. Writers of this caliber know how to write a story you've never read before and write it well. I believe he's left this main character to return another day. More to which I can look forward.
    • 4/5
      I first started reading this author many years ago when he wrote mystery suspense. I remember being blown away by Eyes of a Child. He than started writing political novels often with a moral dilemma and I absolutely loved his Protect and Defend. In Fall from Grace he writes about the psychological peeling of a narcissist, the sons who hate him, a murder or suicide and the secrets of a sorely dysfunctional family. Found this novel to be absolutely fascinating.
    • 4/5
      lots of twists that make this a very good plot. although I can't believe Adam will hold his secrets much past the last pages...
    • 4/5
      As always Richard North Patterson makes you want to read, and makes you want to keep turning the pages. This isn't one of his best, but even his average is higher than most. I've griped about the star ratings before; this is a 7 . It's a clever "was it murder, if so, who-dun-it and why, and given a limited list of candidates, there are enough twists, turns and red herrings to satisfy. Patterson also provides a fair dose of legal stuff to remind us of some of his best stuff. By the way if you have not read "Eclipse" yet, I urge you to seek it out!
    • 4/5
      Interesting story of family and how it is affected by death of father. Is it suicide or murder?
    • 3/5
      When a famous novelist in New England dies violently, family secrets begin to unravel.Benjamin Blaine is about to be burried. His son Adam returns from Afghanistan where he is with the CIA. He arrives for his father's funeral and shortly thereafter learns that his father changed his will and removed his wife and Adam's other brother from the will.Adam is asked to be the executor and police want to know if Ben fell from a cliff on his property or did he commit suicide or was he murdered.In working with the police, Adam feels that he also has to protect his mother and brother from the investigation.This is a slow moving story that can be discouraging. Benjamin Blaine was an unlikable character and most of the other characters aren't that much better. I found the dialogue didn't match the characters where even people in a fishing village spoke with the same educated vocabulary as a Yale graduate.The author did keep my curiosity as I wanted to see how the story would end.