The Monster of Twenty Mile Pond

Bill McGill, a lawyer living in St. John's, has been asking himself this same question for more than twenty years, since the day he sawor thought he sawsomething large and monstrous rise up out of the water and pluck a hapless seagull from the air. Today the memory resurfaces as his niece, Esme, finds herself on the wrong side of the law and charged with murderone that took place on the shores of that very same pond. With solid evidence against her, and a dogged prosecutor bent on making an example of the young woman, Esme's fate is sealed. But her uncle refuses to give up hope. Bill McGill must return to the scene of the crimeand the scene of his own long-ago nightmare visionand learn the truth about what lurks beneath the waves of Twenty Mile Pond. The Monster of Twenty Mile Pond is Bill Rowe's eighth book. Two of his books, Danny Williams: The War with Ottawa and The Premiers Joey and Frank: Greed, Power, and Lust, have appeared on the Globe and Mail bestsellers lists.

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