Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Spying Moon
    The Spying Moon
    The Spying Moon
    Ebook366 pages5 hours

    The Spying Moon

    By Sandra Ruttan

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    The unexplained disappearance of her mother left her an orphan so Kendall Moreau became a police officer and pursued a posting in the town where her mother went missing. She is on her way to her first posting when she gets reassigned to a task force in Maple River, hundreds of miles from where her mother vanished.

    Moreau doesn’t want to be in Maple River. Most of her team doesn’t want her there, either. She’s partnered with Nate Duncan, whose role on the task force raises suspicions amongst the team because of his family’s criminal connections, adding to Moreau’s sense of isolation.

    They are assigned to investigate the death of Sammy Petersen but Duncan’s personal connection to the family and suspects threatens to compromise the investigation.
    When a routine break-and-enter call produces a second body, Moreau suspects a connection to Sammy’s death. After someone breaks into her cabin and assaults her, Moreau is forced to decide who to trust. Although she’s still waiting to solve her own family mystery, Moreau is determined to give Sammy Petersen’s family the answers she never received. Can she solve the case before another teenager dies and another family is destroyed?

    Praise for THE SPYING MOON:

    “The subject matter of this lucid police procedural may be grim, but the Canadian sensibility is refreshing.” —Publishers Weekly

    “With a keen eye for Canadian detail, Ruttan crafts a grim thriller with a unique social conscience. We need more stories like this one. Kendall Moreau is a Mountie you won’t soon forget.” —Sarah L Johnson, bestselling author of Infractus and Suicide Stitch: Eleven Stories

    “The Spying Moon is a welcome, gritty addition to Canadian crime fiction. Ruttan is a thoughtful and original writer, and Kendall Moreau is a compelling detective in the vein of Jane Tennison and John Rebus.” —Sam Wiebe, award-winning author of Cut You Down, Last of the Independents and Invisible Dead

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDown & Out Books
    Release dateSep 17, 2018
    ISBN9780463458372
    The Spying Moon
    Author

    Sandra Ruttan

    One of Sandra Ruttan's most painful childhood memories is of her mom driving her and her sister to the town dump, and her stuffed white lamb being pried from her arms and tossed in the garbage. She was a walking disaster in her formative years. At age eight she was hit by a car while riding her bike home and her head was cut open. Just before her ninth birthday she was running along the beach and landed on broken glass, and her foot was partially severed. The muscle had to be stitched back together, leaving some uncertainty about whether she'd walk again, and the doctor was so fed up with her screaming he told her if she didn't shut up he'd cut her foot off. She went to school with the doctor's son, and forever felt sorry for him. After her tenth birthday she fell down a waterfall and almost drowned. Her later adventures included being in Seville when they found 4.5 tons of explosives set to blow up the Semana Santa parade and being in a car crash in the Sahara Desert. There is absolutely no explanation for how she's managed to stay alive as long as she has. Keep up to date at her website, www.sandraruttan.com or http://sruttan.wordpress.com/

    Related to The Spying Moon

    Related ebooks

    Mystery For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Books

      Aug 18, 2023

      Books
      4 min read

    • Article

      Book Club

      Jul 20, 2022

      Book Club
      5 min read

    • Article

      Books

      Jun 22, 2020

      When Katie Straw’s body is pulled from the waters of a well-used suicide spot, the local police are all but ready to rule it as just that – suicide. The residents of a women’s shelter where Katie worked, however, think otherwise. To them, it’s clearl

      5 min read

    • Article

      Books

      Dec 18, 2020

      Books
      4 min read

    • Article

      Books

      Feb 18, 2022

      Books
      3 min read

    • Article

      Reading CORNER

      Dec 4, 2022

      For six years, a town has been hiding big secrets This novel starts out like a murder mystery, but very quickly becomes so much more than that. A heartfelt tale set in the suburbs of an Australian country town in the early ’90s, it’s about friendshi

      3 min read

    • Article

      Ten Essential Noir Novels

      May 26, 2021

      Those books were about psychologically damaged people trying to navigate a cruel, cutthroat world. And they were written by what seemed to me psychologically damaged writers. It felt like I’d found a home. The post Ten Essential Noir Novels appeared

      5 min read

    • Article

      Cycles

      Nov 10, 2022

      His online profile was promising: good hair, straight teeth, college degree. And he was nice-looking too, in his photo anyway, standing on a clifftop with the sun rising over his welldefined, muscular shoulder. He was attractive enough, the kind of u

      18 min read

    • Article

      Books

      Sep 16, 2019

      Books
      4 min read

    • Article

      Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Tolentino, Valentine, Folarin, Marías, Price, and More

      Aug 6, 2019

      If you've been waiting for that debut essay collection from The New Yorker's star culture writer, this is your lucky week. The post Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Tolentino, Valentine, Folarin, Marías, Price, and More appeared first on The Million

      6 min read

    • Article

      What To Read

      Feb 4, 2022

      Best friends Alice and Eileen are on the cusp of turning 30 and you get to know them as they navigate life, love, sex and friendship. In between they exchange letters about a range of topics from consumerism and global warming to the state of the con

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Missing Woman

      May 2, 2024

      The Missing Woman
      6 min read

    • Article

      Books

      Nov 18, 2019

      Books
      4 min read

    • Article

      Southern Gothic: Ten Essentials Books

      Sep 15, 2021

      When it comes to Southern gothic, it’s not the heat that gets you, it’s the humidity. It’s a genre designed to make you uncomfortable. The post Southern Gothic: Ten Essentials Books appeared first on The Millions.

      5 min read

    • Article

      Books

      Apr 19, 2024

      Books
      4 min read

    • Article

      Best Books

      Mar 15, 2022

      Best Books
      1 min read

    • Article

      No Apologies: On Writing About My Mother’s Life

      Mar 15, 2021

      I am halfway through a first draft. On bad days, I long for the comforts of fiction: the anonymity, the deniability. The post No Apologies: On Writing About My Mother’s Life appeared first on The Millions.

      6 min read

    • Article

      Books

      Feb 17, 2023

      Books
      4 min read

    • Article

      Close To Home

      Aug 6, 2023

      Close To Home
      4 min read

    • Article

      Plenty Of Thrills

      May 6, 2022

      On a Tuesday morning Julianne Hillier arrives at the beautiful Art Deco home of her best friend, Piper Holden, for their regular weekly jog around the upmarket Essex seaside town of Midtown-on-Sea. But nobody answers when she rings the bell. When the

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Mirror of Erised: On Death, Harry Potter, and Retreating to Childhood Reads

      Aug 16, 2018

      I’d known Monica 20 years when her sister was killed in a hit-and-run motorcycle accident. We spent our childhoods in a tiny Bay Area town that I left at 14. I only went back to visit twice. In the years between, Monica and I sent each other videos,

      4 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The Spying Moon

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      The Spying Moon - Sandra Ruttan

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1