In the first Marc LeBlanc mystery, a sudden death pulls Marc out of his comfortable life in Grand Pre and into a quest involving unexpected allies, unwelcome visitors, mysterious references in documents and on tombstones, and a hunt from one end of Nova Scotia to the other.

Jeremy Akerman is an adoptive Nova Scotian who has lived in the province since 1964. In that time he has been an archaeologist, a radio announcer, a politician, a senior civil servant, a newspaper editor and a film actor.He is painter of landscapes and portraits, a singer of Irish folk songs, a lover of wine, and a devotee of history, especially of the British Labour Party.