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This Edgar Award-winning debut kicks off the crime series—and basis for the Fox TV and Hulu series Murder in a Small Town—set along Canada’s Sunshine Coast.

To Karl Alberg, the coastal town of Sechelt, just north of Vancouver, looks like the perfect place to soothe a psyche that’s been battered by big-city police work. Bees buzz among the roses, and the local librarian is attractive, intriguing, and unattached. Perhaps he has at last come in from the cold. But sunny towns can conceal a lot of secrets—some of them bleak enough to make a man yearn for some nice straightforward urban crime.

In 1986 L.R. Wright’s The Suspect became the first Canadian novel to win an Edgar award, beating out titles by Ruth Rendell and Jonathan Kellerman. It went on to become a cult favorite among mystery fans, who prized its delicately etched sense of melancholy and intriguing character studies of the cop, his quarry, and the enigmatic librarian who proves an unlikely bridge between the two.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B010MT80PA
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Felony & Mayhem Press (July 1, 2015)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 1, 2015
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 4205 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 252 pages
Reviewer: Kindle Customer MJ
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Excellent, if dated
Review: I'm not sure how to review this and convey my surprise and pleasure with Suspect. Each of the characters come alive in the page, they are complex, nuanced, and not particularly likable but definitely compelling.Suspect was published in the time period it's set in and is a perfect reflection of the 80's in tone and language.It deserved the Edgar, and if it were published today would be an Edgar winner still.

Reviewer: Blue in Washington (Barry Ballow)
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Not who but why - fine murder mystery
Review: "The Suspect" is an extraordinary 25-year old mystery novel reprinted by Felony & Mayhem Publishers who know how to rescue forgotten classics. The Edgar Prize winner for 1986, this is the story of the killing of an elderly man living on the "Sunshine Coast" of southern British Columbia. The killer is identified in the first few pages of the story--in fact the reader is a witness to the crime and all that follows as the police try to find motive and killer. The principal investigator is Staff Sergeant Karl Alberg, who has his own interesting personal background. While tracking the killer, Alberg is trying to put his own life back together and in doing so, meets Cassandra the local librarian who has her own issues plus a direct link to the murderer.Although this is definitely a crime novel, it's much more the story of some interesting and basically very decent people living in a very small but special, out-of-the-way place sorting through the problems of life. The most fascinating character of all, not surprisingly, is the killer himself, a man who came from a truly wretched family background but who overcame that trauma and has enjoyed a satisfying professional life and long and loving marriage. Nevertheless, his life has also been haunted by his early family background and, in particular, the fate of his beloved sister who makes a disastrous choice in her own marriage.Author L.R. Wright has wonderful insights into the human condition and how it affects relationships and behavior. Equally fine is the author's skill in evoking the geography and sense of place that are as much a part of the story as the characters themselves. Despite the early identification of the killer, the author cleverly constructs plenty of tension throughout by focusing his tale on discovery of the killer's identity by the police and whether, in fact, it would actually be true justice.This is a thoroughly enjoyable novel that was fully deserving of the Edgar Award. Highly recommended.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A great read!
Review: TV series: Murder In A Small Town led me to this writer & first book…it’s an older novel so wasn’t sure what to expect! It is a well-written book & does not feel too dated…book is more substantial than the show but I enjoy both!

Reviewer: Lee Fleming
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Enjoyed it
Review: It is a different kind of procedural than I'm used to, but it was an easy but sad read. I like the characters so will read the next in the series.

Reviewer: Kindle Customer
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The Suspect
Review: Really great suspense book, I couldn't put it down. Cassandra has a lot going that I can't wait to get the dirt on her. There's a past.

Reviewer: Sandra Fielder
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Friends or Enemies?
Review: George was a lonely old man. He lived in a small town near Vancouver. He had lived by himself since his wife died. He had an ex brother in law that lived close to him. Carlyle was married to George’s sister. His sister had died in a car accident years earlier. When he and his siblings were young, their dad would abuse their mom and him. His dad abused his sister. George just knew Carlyle had abused his sister. He went for lunch at Carlyle’s house one day. He felt an uncontrollable anger. He picked up a WWII shell casing. He struck Carlyle in the head and killed the him.This book was awarded an Edgar. It is the first book in L R Wright’s Alberg and Cassandra series. The book is hard to put down.

Reviewer: chrissy lou
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: the Beginnning
Review: this book feels like it is the beginning of a series that will get better. I’m intrigued by the characters and definitely want more. There is a lot of introspection throughout the story which adds depth to the characters. Albert is kind of a cranky guy!

Reviewer: Kindle Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Excellent and unusual
Review: The characters in this book will stay with you for some time, they are memorable and not usual. This story is not the typical mystery, but a nuanced character study. I appreciate the setting, British Columbia, where I spent some time when I was younger, happy memories.

Reviewer: william
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I just finished The Suspect, quite possibly for the second time. In the early 80s, I moved from Toronto to Pender BC.It was there I happened on L.R Wright. I think I read everything she wrote! I saw and heard her speak at the Sunshine Coast Writers Festival andwas deeply saddened by her death. There was a selfishness to that. I wanted more! Im happy to be re- connected to Ms Wright through Kindle Unlimited!

Reviewer: sigrunT
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Dies ist der erste Kriminalroman der Autorin, mit dem sie sofort und zu Recht einen hohen Preis gewonnen hat. Diese Ehrung ist wirklich verdient, denn dieses Buch ist originell und spielt in einer ungewöhnlichen Gegend. Darüberhinaus sind die dargestellten Personen ausgesprochen sympathisch und das Ganze ist ausgezeichnet erzählt.Der Leser tritt in das in dem Buch geschilderte Geschehen sehr plötzlich ein, nämlich in den Minuten unmittelbar nach dem ein sehr alter Mann einen anderen alten Mann erschlagen hat. Von Anfang an ist der Leser völlig informiert darüber, wer wen wann und wie ermordet hat - etwas was man ja in anderen Krimis erst herauszufinden versucht. Das Ergebnis ist aber gleichwohl ein hoch interessantes und spannendes Buch, das einen großen Anteil an dem Schicksal der handelnden Personen nehmen lässt, einschließlich dem des Mörders, der wohl einer der sympathischsten Mörder der Krimiliteratur sein dürfte.Spannend ist auch die Schilderung der Landschaft, in der das Buch spielt, eine sonnige Küste in der Nähe von Vancouver. Man möchte sofort hinfahren!Ich kann das Buch nur unbedingt empfehlen.

Reviewer: Maxine Clarke
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: The Suspect is an absorbing, short book about the aftermath of a crime, set in Sechelt, a small town on the beautiful-sounding Sunshine Coast of Canada. The elderly George Lomax, we are led to believe, kills another octogenarian, Carlyle Burke, by hitting him on the head with a shell casing. Shaken, George goes home, but becomes worried about the fate of the dead man's parrot, so returns to the house, "discovers" the body and calls the police.Staff Sergeant Karl Ahlberg of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is the senior office in Sechelt and hence in charge of the investigation. He's a taciturn man, divorced with two daughters who are both at university in Calgary. He is unfulfilled in his unaccustomed solitary state, and so has taken to answering personal ads in an attempt to find female companionship. By this method, he meets Cassandra, the local librarian, an independent, 40-year-old woman who is a friend of George's.The police investigation forms the framework of the novel, but what brings it to life is the depiction of George, Karl and Cassandra as they all deal with their separate lonelinesses in their different ways. In addition, the book presents a picture of life in this (I am convinced!) beautiful region of Canada which sounds wonderful, not least in its almost year-round warm climate and the enticingly described lush vegetation. In its treatment of a local community and the effects of a crime on the assumed perpetrator, rather than on the more conventional puzzle of whodunnit, the book is absorbing, partly because the author does not push the concept too far in keeping the whole thing short and focused. The underlying reasons for the crime, some of which reach back far into the past, and others of which are subtly presented and left for the reader to deduce, conspire to create a haunting whole. The psychological insights provided, together with the sharply observed characterisations of Karl and Cassandra, leave the reader eager to read more of the series.

Reviewer: J. C. Bratrud
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: First book in entertaining series.

Reviewer: sli
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Delivered in great condition!