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It's the Summit Series: Canada vs the Soviet Union, 1972, and the whole country is talking hockey. Against a backdrop of Cold War tension, with his country's pride on the line, hockey-pro-turned-private-eye Hayden Fuller is enmeshed in two devious crimes. One involves a shoeshine boy murdered in the heart of Toronto's gay scene. The other centers around the University of Toronto, a tight knit writers workshop, and a disgruntled former student, from the grave, leveling plagiarism charges against a beloved English professor. When a young woman named Abby steps forward with connections to both murders, Fuller is "out on the ice" again, the underdog racing against a countdown clock and a powerful opponent. It's up to him to solve both crimes, before Abby or anyone else turns up dead. This paperback edition includes four Eddie Sands short stories: "This Town Called Winsome," "A Cap for Tom," "A Stretch of Ground" and "Artifacts."
Grant Tracey
Grant Tracey is the author of nearly fifty short stories and four collections of fiction, including Final Stanzas, published by Twelve Winters Press in 2015. He teaches courses in creative writing and film at the University of Northern Iowa, and he has been the fiction editor of the North American Review for over fifteen years. He was the recipient of an Iowa Regents Award for Faculty Excellence in 2013. In addition to his writing, editing and teaching, Grant has acted in more than twenty community theater productions. Cheap Amusements is his first novel.
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