Short-listed for the 2011 Shamus Awards Deadly nightshade – the poison plant par excellence – and in historic Quebec City at an important scientific conference concerning the genetic manipulation of trees it means murder ! Police, RCMP, and a mysterious FBI agent from Washington converge on the scene. But the sharpest eye belongs to Sam Montcalm, a despised «bedroom snooper» from Ottawa whose primary concern is to clear a First Nations activist of the crime. Sam is middle-aged, tough, and...
