Just a Still Life

Canadian author J. Ivanel Johnson's 2022 Debut Just a Still Life, which launches September 22nd, is a cozy mystery with an unusual back story: it was first drafted 75 years ago by the author's grandmother, the original Ivanel. It's 1971 and Inspector Philip Steele, recently transferred to Fredericton,New Brunswick, takes a well-deserved holiday with his godmother in her quaint Victorian village just north of the capital. But when a bank robbery and the murder of a teenage boy initiate a string of even more shocking events, wreaking panic in the quiet community, Phil must return to long days of investigation, and while his godmother prepares her annual harvest moon ritual to trap the murderer, Phil has fallen in love with the accused.