Bøger af L. R. Wright

"While Karl Alberg contents with a multitude of policing problems in the small town of Sechelt, businessman Gordon Murphy is set on winning Alberg's girlfriend's heart, and will go to disturbing lengths to do so." --

Karl Alberg was a big-city cop before moving to the "Sunshine Coast" of Canada. Yet he is stumped by a murder in the sweet little town he now polices: A woman has been found, propped against a tree, her pretty face scrubbed clean, and her slender neck slit from one side to the other. No one knows who she is, let alone what happened. And as the investigation progresses, the clues begin to point in the direction of someone Alberg is not happy to have on the suspect list.

When Emma O'Brea's husband, Charlie, disappears, it quickly becomes apparent that Emma was the only person in Canada who didn't recognize how desperate he had been to leave. Eddie Addison is an overgrown delivery boy dangerously obsessed with a pretty young student. Eddie and Emma would seem to have little in common, but when Inspector Karl Alberg is called in to solve the riddle of Charlie's vanishing act, the two sets of disturbing delusions begin to converge.

An award-winning mystery novel whose pleasure lies largely in the intricate relationships between the characters, Mother Love has Karl Alberg, the series protagonist, working on a case that seems to hinge on the questions of why a placid housewife abandoned her family for seven years, and what prompted her to return.