Extensions

When she makes the chance discovery of a framed sepia photograph of her grandmother and her twin sister, RCMP Constable Arabella Dryvynsydes decides to find out how a picture taken in 1914 in the mining town of Extension, BC wound up at a garage sale in small-town Saskatchewan almost one hundred years later.  As Arabella sifts through caches of long-forgotten letters and unearths long-buried memories, she pieces together the heartbreaking truth of her family history and resolves a nearly century-old murder.  In her debut novel, Myrna Dey skillfully moves back and forth between two time periods and two memorably resourceful female heroines.

"The exploration of a character's identity through the prism of an ancestor's life is a popular conceit in Canadian literature, but Dey injects new life into it. Extensions is an engrossing story that includes sex and romance, murder and larceny, and a smattering of Canadian history."

– Christina Decarie (Quill & Quire, January/February 2011)

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