New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. dj. Hardcover first edition - A homage to noir by this award winning writer, set in Halifax, Nova Scotia. "Jacob Rigolet looks up from his seat at an auction - his mother, former head librarian at the Halifax Free Library, is walking almost casually up the aisle. Before a stunned audience, she flings an open jar of black ink at master photographer Robert Capas 'Death on a Leipzig Balcony.' Jacobs police detective fiance, Martha Crauchet, is assigned to the ensuing interrogation. [As the novel continues] Jacobs understanding of the man he has always assumed to be his father unravels against the darker truth of Robert Emil, a Halifax police officer suspected but never convicted of murdering two Jewish residents during the shocking upswing of anti-Semitism in 1945." 243 pp. ISBN: 978-0544236103.