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[Janice MacDonald] has managed to convey the inherent spookiness —Howard Rheingold
The Monitor / $10.99 / ISBN: 9780888012845 / Ravenstone
Hang Down Your Head
by Janice MacDonald
Some folks have a talent for finding trouble, no matter how good they try to be, especially Randy Craig. Maybe she shouldn’t date a cop. Maybe she should have turned down the job at the Folkways Collection library—a job that became a nightmare when a rich benefactor’s belligerent heir turned up dead.
Randy tried to be good—honest!—but now she’s a prime suspect with a motive and no alibi in sight.
The Edmonton Folk Music Festival, the city itself and the fascinating politics of funding research in the arts lend a rich texture to this engaging mystery with the twisty end. If you enjoy folk music, you’re in for an extra treat. Once again, Randy Craig is a down-to-earth, funny and realistic amateur sleuth: it’s good to reconnect with her. —Mary Jane Maffini, author of The Busy Woman’s Guide to Murder
I have been a performer at the Edmonton Folk Festival for 20 years. I always knew there were a lot of characters there, but until reading Janice’s book, I never thought of the festival itself as a character, and a fine place for a murder mystery! —James Keelaghan
Hang Down Your Head / $16.00 / ISBN: 9780888013866 / Ravenstone
Janice MacDonald is the author of nine books, including novels, non-fiction titles, a children’s book and a university textbook. Janice’s stories and essays have been widely anthologized, and her popular Randy Craig novels were the first mystery series set in Edmonton. She has taught English literature, communications and creative writing at both the University of Alberta and Grant MacEwan College. A lifelong lover of history, Janice has previously written a book about the fur trade in western Canada, as well as music and lyrics for touring musical plays about the Canadian railroad and the Lac La Biche Mission in northern Alberta. She was delighted to see both of her daughters work at Fort Edmonton and Rutherford House during their university years.