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After a lot of tweaking and tinkering, Zol and Hamish’s latest mystery is now on the bookstore shelves and Internet shopping carts. It’s called TAMPERED. If you can judge a book by its cover, this is a beautiful novel. The team at ECW Press, my Toronto-based publisher, has done a terrific job of it.

TAMPERED was inspired by an alleged, real-life medical crime that shocked the city of Hamilton, yet went unpunished. Someone is murdering the lively seniors enjoying the high life in the city’s most iconic mansion. Perhaps this time someone will catch the perps and bring them to justice. Or maybe not. There’s only so much I can do as a vigilante author.

TAINTED, Zol and Hamish’s first adventure, had readers nervously searching their grocery carts for poisoned comestibles. TAMPERED will have you terrified next time you leave your doctor’s office, especially since I didn’t have to make much up. It really happened. More or less.

Here’s what TAMPERED’s jacket has to say:

Dr. Zol Szabo chose public health for its noble ideals and predictable hours. He never expected to be intimidated by the Prime Minister’s Office, roughed up by the RCMP, or threatened by the Hamilton mob.

Though Zol and his team have investigated every centimetre of Camelot Lodge, a residence for healthy seniors blessed with generous pensions and high-ranking political connections, the source of the converted mansion’s spate of fatal food poisonings remains elusive. As the death count rises, the outbreak threatens Zol’s beloved grandfather Art Greenwood, a military veteran, engineering genius, and piano whiz. The Mounties muscle in, and Zol’s boss threatens him with exile. Hamish Wakefield, Zol’s friend and colleague obsessed with microbes and car washes, discovers dangers at the Lodge that make the rabid bats in the turret and the Dumpster-diving cook seem like minor indiscretions.

It takes Art Greenwood, marshalling the insights of his silver-haired companions, to expose the deaths for what they are: a string of murders.

One way or another, I hope you get a hold of a copy of TAMPERED. And then let me know what you think. I love hearing from readers. You’ll find my email address under the Contact tab at the top of every page.

Watch your step!

Ross Pennie