Murder on Ice

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Police chief Reid Bennettthe most savvy cop currently in the genreand his dog track cold-hearted kidnappers in a Canadian crime thriller (Library Journal).

Reid Bennett, the newest addition to the Murphys Harbour, Ontario, police department, has embarked on his second case. During the Ice Festival, there is a sudden blackout and the Queen of the Ice Festival disappears; in fact she has been kidnapped! Members of a feminist antipageant group are suspected, but Reid suspects something fishy. He must expose the organizer of the kidnappingand try not to get himself killed.

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A series character worth watching for . . . fast moving, intriguing. Los Angeles Times

Danger, fullbodied characters, and enough detail about police work and survival techniques to complement Bennetts role as the most savvy cop currently in the genre. Library Journal

Author Bio

Ted Wood was born in Shoreham, Sussex, England. Throughout his life, he was a flier, a beat cop, a pin-boy, a soda-jerk, a freight porter, and an advertising hotshot. He also wrote dozens of short stories, hundreds of magazine articles, including two long-running humor columns, television plays, and one musical comedy. He had fourteen books, thirteen of them novels, published in Canada, the United States, Britain, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, and Japan. Wood was the author of the acclaimed Reid Bennett mystery series. As Jack Barnao, he also wrote the John Locke Mysteries: Lockestep, Hammerlocke, and Timelocke.

After being widowed, he married his wife, Mary, in 1975. He was the father of three, stepfather to another three, and granddad to a total of nine, counting steps and one step-step. Wood ran Whitbys Ezra Annes House bed and breakfast in partnership with Mary. He passed away in 2019.