NOONDAY DARK

An exciting second installment in the Doctor Annick Boudreau mystery series. The endearing and unflappable Dr. Annick Boudreau returns in this complex and nuanced portrait of psychology and a city. Charles Demers renders a divisive cityscape entangled in questions of ownership and change—who owns the city and who has the right to change it—with humour, edge and compassion, revealing the intricacies of a metropolis on the verge of myriad transformations.

When Dr. Boudreau is contacted by the Vancouver Police and informed that her patient Danielle has been reported missing and there's a suicide note, Dr. Boudreau is shaken. Danielle, who was being treated for a major depressive episode, had been doing well – talking about her new relationship and the contract she just completed as a speechwriter for a bike-riding politician's successful mayoral campaign.
Dr. Boudreau is, once again, on a mission to discover what really happened and joins forces with Danielle's estranged father Ivor, a former radical journalist turned right-wing blogger. Along the way, the realpolitik is illuminated in a clash over the Knight Street trucking route, protected by the Satan's Hammer Motorcycle Club, who have a strong presence on the waterfront and refuse to relinquish the port traffic to the suburbs.
Discover the clash and charisma of a city embroiled in politics in this twisting and turning story. Charles Demers renders a divisive cityscape entangled in questions of ownership and change – who owns the city and who has the right to change it – with humor, edge, and compassion, revealing the intricacies of a metropolis on the verge of myriad transformations.

CHARLES DEMERS is an author, comedian, voice actor, and playwright. His collection of essays, Vancouver Special, was shortlisted for the Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize. He is also the author of The Horrors, Property Values, and Primary Obsessions. Primary Obsessions is Demers' first book in the Doctor Annick Boudreau mystery series, for which which he draws upon his own long-time experience with cognitive behavioral therapy. Demers lives in Vancouver with his wife and daughter.