In a small city somewhere in an oil-rich Canadian province just east of the Rockies, a political scandal has erupted: an aging cabinet minister has struck and killed a member of his local constituency executive with his half-ton truck, in broad daylight. But the premier suspects that there is more to this "accident" than meets the eyeand he wants to know the real reasons behind it before the media or his political rivals do.
In Where the Bodies Lie, Mark Lisac draws upon his decades of experience as a reporter at Alberta's provincial legislature to craft an absorbing debut novelpart political thriller, part fablethat opens up timeless themes of friendship, love, the inescapability of grief, the weight of history, and the nature of truth.