The Red Chesterfield

M is a bylaw officer, living with two brothers, in their parents' old house. While investigating a suspicious yard sale, M discovers a red chesterfield sitting in a ditch. Looking closer, M finds a running shoe-and a severed foot.

Now M is involved in a murder investigation. Meanwhile, older brother K's work for a new political party begins to seem suspicious, while younger brother J navigates the complicated world of young-adulthood, and boss Rhonda demands more and more attention, M must navigate a world of Russian gangsters and neglected wives, biker gangs and suspicious coincidences. On top of everything else, M is determined to track down the owner of that red chesterfield and make sure they get a ticket.

The Red Chesterfield is a delightful, unusual novel that upends the tropes and traditions of crime fiction while asking how far one person is willing to go to solve a crime, be it murder or the abandonment of a piece of furniture.

Author: Wayne Arthurson
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Published: 10/15/2019
Series: Brave & Brilliant #11
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.5lbs
Size: 6.40h x 8.90w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781773850771

About the Author
Arthurson, Wayne: - Wayne Arthurson is a writer of Cree and French Canadian descent. He is the author of five novels, including Fall From Grace, winner of the Alberta Reader's Choice Award, and Traitors of Camp 113, a finalist for the High Plains Book Award for Best Indigenous Novel.