A Hateful Chill

Twenty-one years ago, Tim McConnell's wife Betsy was brutally murdered. When her killer is let out on bail, Tim, depressed and suicidal, takes justice into his own hands and attacks his wife's assailant. After a questionable defense, Tim is given a lengthy prison sentence, and when released, still haunted by his wife's death, becomes a drifter, living in homelessness. When a murder crops up in an alley near the waterfront section of Gastown in Vancouver's east end in the present day, and Tim's belonging are found at the scene, the tragic story of Tim McConnell past falls into the hands of Detective Chad Jackson. The investigation, aided by his younger partner, Tony Ryerson, is quickly complicated when two additional murders take place in the Appellate Court parking garage two days later and it is discovered that both victims have ties to Tim McConnell. Filled with twist and turns, this fast-paced novella gives lovers of True Crime and murder mysteries an ending like no other.