June 27, 2009
We live in a remarkably safe spot in the world. Famine, war and pestilence happen somewhere else, far away. But danger can intrude even in Canada. It can be as near as the tap water we drink or the lettuce we eat. That’s the scary premise of Ross Pennie’s excellent debut novel, Tainted.
Zol Szabo is associate medical officer of health for Hamilton-Lakeshore. His egotistical and publicity-hungry boss is on the countdown for [Read more…]
By Frank Moher
August 1, 2009
Canada’s small publishers are not known for producing summer beach-reading material, but ECW Press has done a decent job of it with Tainted (subtitled A Doctor Zol Szabo Medical Mystery). It’s also not every day you come across a thriller featuring, as its central character, the associate medical officer of the Hamilton-Lakeshore Public Health Clinic. Talk about a Canadian action hero: “I have a certificate, and I know how to use it.”
But author Ross Pennie, [Read more…]
