Important homicide, Henry. People can’t go around killing college presidents. Not good for the education business.
Hampton County Chief of Detectives
“A college is in crisis and four days of golden autumn will end with the shock of crimson.“
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An Error of the Moon
Book Description
A college is in crisis and four days
of golden autumn will end with
the shock of crimson.
In the early morning of October 25, 1988, a student jogging the placid campus of Vermeulen College, the prominent Catholic institution in Hampton, Indiana, discovers the body of the charismatic president of the college administered by the Congregation of St. John.
Roger Drouin, the Quebec-born College Chief of Police, is shaken. Five years earlier, he helped solve a sensational murder case in Rochester, Minnesota. Dispirited, he had left policing. Now he faces another tragic case, the murder of a priest, the friend who had brought him to Indiana.
Apart from having to deal with an ambitious college provost whose daughter is now missing, he must navigate a forced alliance with the cheerless but brilliant County Chief of Detectives and deal with a religious leader who may be obstructing justice.
He has to find answers to questions about a popular professor of English Literature and her cynical husband. But beyond investigating the facts of a crime, Roger Drouin must confront matters of the heart-those of the dead president, the woman who loved him, and himself.
It was supposed to be exciting and romantic to unravel the mystery of you. In twelve years the only thing that unravelled was our marriage.
Professor of English, Vermeulen College
Gerard Blackmore
About the Author
A former educator and administrator in his native Newfoundland and Labrador, Gerard (Ged) Blackmore completed university studies in the United States and Canada. He also taught in Ontario, the West Indies and Mississippi.
He has written works for the stage and been writer, composer and lyricist for a range of musical productions, many of which have had as their focus the history, culture and music of his beloved province.
Ged is a member of the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN). An Error of the Moon is his first novel. He presently resides in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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