Find Him Guilty

Mystery & Suspense, Historical Mystery, Women Sleuths, Fiction & Literature, Historical
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Author: Cheryl Stewart ISBN: 9781775208600
Publisher: Cheryl Stewart Publication: May 3, 2018
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Cheryl Stewart
ISBN: 9781775208600
Publisher: Cheryl Stewart
Publication: May 3, 2018
Imprint:
Language: English

Who killed McGee?

It’s 1868. Canada is a new country, and the wild frontier town of Ottawa has been named its capital…

Eliza Tierney’s mother is about to remarry and the blustering bridegroom has no room on his farm for a fourteen-year-old girl. Devastated by her mother’s abandonment, Eliza walks out of their ramshackle house in Ottawa’s Lower Town and into a blizzard. She is rescued by Bridey, a blithe and beautiful girl who is trying to find her place in a society that doesn’t understand her unorthodox ways. Bridey takes Eliza to Starr’s Tavern, and convinces her employer, the formidable-but-flustered Mrs. Siviter, to give Eliza a trial as a maidservant. Eliza must be a quick study if she hopes to impress her new employer and keep her situation.

And then one night, under a blood red moon, the charismatic member of Parliament, Thomas D’Arcy McGee, is assassinated.

Eliza finds herself in the middle of the intrigue when a lodger at the tavern, the dapper and gentlemanly Patrick James Whelan, is arrested for the murder. Bridey has feelings for Whelan that overstep what’s proper for a young lady of the time and is determined to prove his innocence, but she soon learns that being a gentleman and looking the part are not the same thing. Meanwhile, the lawyers on the case will do anything to win a victory for their own side, and even the Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, weighs in on the deeply politicized incident. When Eliza is called upon to testify at the trial, and witnesses Whelan’s fate at the hands of a questionable form of justice, Eliza must cross-examine her faith, her country, and herself.

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Who killed McGee?

It’s 1868. Canada is a new country, and the wild frontier town of Ottawa has been named its capital…

Eliza Tierney’s mother is about to remarry and the blustering bridegroom has no room on his farm for a fourteen-year-old girl. Devastated by her mother’s abandonment, Eliza walks out of their ramshackle house in Ottawa’s Lower Town and into a blizzard. She is rescued by Bridey, a blithe and beautiful girl who is trying to find her place in a society that doesn’t understand her unorthodox ways. Bridey takes Eliza to Starr’s Tavern, and convinces her employer, the formidable-but-flustered Mrs. Siviter, to give Eliza a trial as a maidservant. Eliza must be a quick study if she hopes to impress her new employer and keep her situation.

And then one night, under a blood red moon, the charismatic member of Parliament, Thomas D’Arcy McGee, is assassinated.

Eliza finds herself in the middle of the intrigue when a lodger at the tavern, the dapper and gentlemanly Patrick James Whelan, is arrested for the murder. Bridey has feelings for Whelan that overstep what’s proper for a young lady of the time and is determined to prove his innocence, but she soon learns that being a gentleman and looking the part are not the same thing. Meanwhile, the lawyers on the case will do anything to win a victory for their own side, and even the Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, weighs in on the deeply politicized incident. When Eliza is called upon to testify at the trial, and witnesses Whelan’s fate at the hands of a questionable form of justice, Eliza must cross-examine her faith, her country, and herself.

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