Unhanged gets a boost

August 19th, 2014

Sam Wiebe’s novel Last of the Independents (Dundurn $17.99) won the 2012 Unhanged Arthur Award for Best Unpublished First Novel, and was subsequently published in 2014. The novel introduces readers to a 29 year-old private investigator, named Michael Drayton who runs an agency in Vancouver that specializes in missing persons. Characters range from a local junk merchant, a crooked private eye, and a drug-addicted car thief to a necrophile and a disreputable psychic trying to bilk the mother of a missing girl. Sam Wiebe’s stories have appeared in Thuglit, Spinetingler and Criminal Element’s Malfeasance Occasional e-collection. He lives in Vancouver. 9781459709485

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