The Cannabis Murders

The riveting story unfolding in this eleventh novel in the Maggie Keiller/Derek Sloan crime-fiction series is set against a backdrop of rising public concern over the extent of covert Chinese interference in Canadian political and corporate affairs. The story itself is tied to the legal production and distribution of cannabis products in Canada, as a global producer with Chinese connections attempts to establish a manufacturing facility in the resort town of Port Huntington on Georgian Bay. In so doing, the company encounters community opposition, and runs up against Indigenous land-claims to the property in question, both of which throw up a major stumbling-block to its plans. To everyone’s dismay, repeated vandalism, threatened extortion, violence, and eventually murder soon follow. Maggie Keiller and Derek Sloan become caught up in events through her support of a young Indigenous woman trapped in the turmoil that follows, and through his involvement as a negotiator for the First Nation land-claims. And both are drawn further into the mayhem because of a connection to the government’s pending inquiry into the secretive operations of Chinese interests in the area. Resolute, as always, to protect their community, and themselves, they work closely with police to bring the evil perpetrators to justice.