Where the Bodies Lie

In a small city somewhere in an oil-rich Canadian province just east of the Rockies, a political scandal has erupted: an aging cabinet minister has struck and killed a member of his local constituency executive with his half-ton truck, in broad daylight. But the premier suspects that there is more to this accident than meets the eye – and he wants to know the real reasons behind it before the media or his political rivals do. Enter the premier’s old friend Harry Asher – lawyer, former hockey star, self-styled intellectual, and recent divorce – who is hired to dig into the incident. And it is not long before Asher’s investigation threatens to expose a chain of corruption that implicates many of the province’s most powerful citizens – including the province’s legendary now-senile premier – as well as its most cherished founding myths. Mark Lisac (author of Alberta Politics Uncovered and The Klein Revolution ) draws upon his decades of experience as a reporter at Alberta’s provincial legislature to craft an absorbing debut novel – part political thriller, part fable – that opens up timeless themes of friendship, love, the inescapability of grief, the weight of history, and the nature of truth.