Book Launch: ‘The Crooked Knife’ by Jan Morrison

Join Jan Morrison for the Halifax stop of her book tour for ‘The Crooked Knife’! Books will be available for purchase on site and Jan will be available to sign them. 7-9 PM at The Bus Stop Theatre!

About the Book:

Constable Nell Munro is angry and in danger of losing her job. A teacher, Jay Tuck, has been found dead, a crooked knife nearby. A two-spirit Innu youth named Pashin is the main suspect, but Nell doesn’t buy it.

Local activists implore her to keep digging but when she does, Nell is threatened and worse – so are the kids she cares about. Even when the lead investigator threatens to put Nell on probation for her big mouth, she keeps going.
Who is responsible for the recent chaos on the reserve, and why do people who fight it end up either very quiet, or very dead?

‘The Crooked Knife’ is a layered tale of life in an indigenous community from an insider’s perspective. It explores the way conflicts arise, subtly and not-so-subtly, as individuals grapple with change amid a major resource development project that challenges age-old earth and
water-keeping traditions.

About the Author:

Jan Morrison is a published playwright, poet, and former artistic director of the Chester Playhouse in Chester, NS. With her theatre company, Catchword Productions, she also regularly led weekend-long murder mystery events at resorts throughout Nova Scotia. The Crooked Knife is inspired by Morrison’s deep love for Labrador and the Innu children she knew while working there as a psychotherapist.

Now a retired grandmother, Morrison spends time enjoying yoga and working in her home garden in Prospect, Nova Scotia.

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