Nightshade: A Sam Montcalm Mystery

In Quebec City, deadly nightshade means murder. Police, RCMP, and a mysterious FBI agent converge on an important scientific conference concerning the genetic manipulation of trees. Sam Montcalm, a despised ＂bedroom snooper＂ from Ottawa, follows the trail of murder back to Canada’s capital.

Tom Henighan is an Ottawa writer and editor. His fiction includes The Well of Time, shortlisted for the Seal Books First Novel Award; Mercury Man, shortlisted for the Red Maple Award; Viking Quest and Viking Terror, the latter shortlisted for the City of Ottawa Fiction Prize, and Doom Lake Holiday, a teen mystery set in Ontario’s Rideau Lakes.