Mixing the suspenseful tactics of a Louise Penny novel, with the psychological build up of a Robyn Harding, @rhardingwriter, or Samantha Bailey @sbaileybooks, (shout out to #Canadianwriters), Robert Rotenberg’s eighth novel, @robertrotenberg, #ONEMINUTEMORE (@simonschusterca), is a compelling, fast-paced page turner that shifts between a Quebec-Vermont border town, Toronto and Montreal. (#screwthetarriffs).
Set in Toronto in 1988 at the time of the 14th G7 summit, a gathering that hosts the most powerful leaders of the Free World, Toronto police, (cue in the RCMP), get a tip that a potential assassin intends to infiltrate the event and assassinate the leaders of these seven most powerful countries. A local police officer is sent to the US border where he finds an American border guard dead on the Canadian side.
Enter Toronto detective Ari Greene, who fans of Rotenberg have met before in his bestselling series of books, including What We Buried, and Downfall. A prequel to these books, Ari Green is, in #ONEMINUTEMORE, on the road to solving his first case.
Torontonians will love the salty Toronto landmarks that Rotenberg embeds into the pages, ones that are both famous and infamous, such as the old police station on Jarvis Street and the bridge over the Don Valley, which back in the day was notoriously known for its suicide attempts.
Suspense is built through the parsing down of hours, which begins with whole numbers — 75 —which oft times splits into half hours — 46.5 — until we hit 35 minutes – and then the #ONEMINUTEMORE. It’s a tactic that keeps the tension elastic-snap tight as our minds scurry forward trying to telepathically send Greene hints as to “who” the unanticipated assassin is.
Told in short static sentences — “cut the siren and hit the brakes” —Rotenberg delivers the kind of breathless flurry of compounded events that guarantee once you start the read you have to keep going, if only for #ONEMINUTEMORE.
Expected pub date Feb 25
CREATVE AGING BOOKS & IDEAS
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ROBERT ROTENBERG
Thursday, February 27 at 2 p.m.
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