Bøger af Charles Demers

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''Exciting and gripping'' Leye Adenle''This clever and empathic series merits a long run'' Publisher''s WeeklyShe knew it wasn''t a suicide... but can she prove it?Dr. Annick Boudreau is shaken when the Vancouver Police inform her that her patient, Danielle, has disappeared. A suicide note is proof enough for police to declare her missing, presumed dead. But to Annick, this canΓÇÖt be an open and shut case. Having worked with Danielle through her depression, Annick is convinced that she was getting better.Determined to find out what happened to her patient, Annick finds herself at the centre of a dark, tangled web, but can she confront the threat thatΓÇÖs stalking her city, before the case is sealed for good?A gripping psychological mystery starring investigator Dr Annick Boudreau.

The endearing and unflappable Dr. Annick Boudreau regularly confronts a myriad of mental health issues in her psychiatric practice at the West Coast Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Clinic. But even Annick is stunned when Sanjay, a young patient who suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, is arrested for the brutal murder of his roommate.While Sanjay is tortured by repeated violent thoughts, he is horrified by them and Annick is convinced that he would never enact one of them in real life. But the police and prosecutor are convinced that they have caught the perpetrator and aren''t interested in looking very hard. Unable to talk to the authorities because of doctor-patient confidentiality, Annick feels compelled to investigate on her own, whatever the risks.Primary Obsessions is the first book in a series of mysteries starring Dr. Annick Boudreau and involving themes of mental health. Author (and longtime CBT patient) Charles Demers deftly reveals a particular aspect of psychiatric practice in each book, illuminating shadowy subject matter with masterful sensitivity and sharp wit. Primary Obsessions is an engrossing page-turner and a refreshing reboot of the sleuth genre.Shortlisted for the 2021 Bill Duthie Booksellers¿ Choice Award¿The kind of narrative storytelling style that engages the reader¿s full and rapt attention from first page to last¿ Clint Travis, Midwest Book Review¿Charles Demers brings freshness to a literary genre that has been in danger of turning as ripe as a week-old murder victim¿ John Moore, BC BookWorld¿Dr. Annick Boudreau is a winning literary creation: she¿s smart, funny, confident, and easy to cheer for¿ Paul Headrick, Ormsby Review¿Delivers a nuanced portrayal of the stigmatization of mental illness in collision with crime¿ Nathan Ripley, author of Find You in the Dark¿Witty, compassionate and sharply observed... exciting from start to finish¿ Iona Whishaw, author of the Lane Winslow series¿A page-turning mystery that¿s ultimately about trying to help our loved ones through their darkest days¿ Kelly Hrudey, Hockey Night in Canada and Sportsnet analyst and mental health advocate

In this unique book of correspondence, two men from different generations write to each other about the burdens, anxieties, and singular joys of parenthood. Thirtysomething Charles Demers and 80-year-old George Bowering are both celebrated authors and the best of friends, and soon both will be the fathers of daughters. The letters begin as Charles and his wife discover they will become parents; he expresses his hopes and fears of impending fatherhood, compounded by his OCD and his own father's illness, while George recalls his own experiences raising a daughter in the 1970s and his own anxieties about bringing a child into a troubled world.Together, their thoughtful, funny, candid missives reveal what fathers know (or don't know) about raising daughters, as well as themselves and each other. Their combined observations make for a passionate, funny and moving portrait of fatherhood in all its imperfect, beautiful glory.George Bowering is Canada's first poet laureate and an officer of the Order of Canada. He is the author of more than eighty books, the most recent of which include The Hockey Scribbler, Writing the Okanagan, and Pinboy. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.Charles Demers is a comedian, performer, and writer. His previous books are The Horrors (Douglas & McIntyre) and Vancouver Special (Arsenal). He lives in Vancouver, where he teaches writing at the University of British Columbia.