[.ca] Seaweed Under Water (ISBN 1894898575)

The Dark Underbelly of Staid Victoria:
Stanley Evans, a superb stylist, chooses his words with care. In this latest addition to a developing series, he sends his aboriginal sleuth Silas, a big man with a bigger heart, on a quest to discover the reason for the death of one of Victoria's demi-monde. Was the woman found floating in the water only another throwaway drug addict or a mother who tried to care for her challenged daughter? The setting, either in the Capital City itself, a throwback to Victorian England with its tearooms in one corner and dark alleys in the other or in the leafy rainforest enclaves of nearby native reserves, embraces the story like a custom-made suit.