LARK HARBOUR THE YORK HARBOUR BLOW·ME·DOWNER FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE OUTER BAY OF ISLANDS ISSUE 63 : 2012-05-04 & LABRADOR 2012 May 04 Friday Editor: Stuart L Harvey, PO Box 17, Lark Harbour Tel: 709-681-2256 NL, , A0L 1H0 E-Mail: [email protected]

IMPROVEMENTS AT LITTLE PORT WHARF

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country in 2011-2012”, with $16.1 million allocated to NL. Among other projects across Canada are “a partial wharf reconstruction BMD photo project at Little Port” and “wharf repairs at Lark Harbour” including more than a dozen in Newfoundland & Labrador alone. See the HEN THE LOBSTER AND CRAB FISHERIES FINISH in a few weeks Government of Canada website at: Wconstruction is scheduled to begin on the Little Port wharf www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/media/back-fiche/2011/hq-ac13a-eng.htm improvements; and, judging by the congestion that occurs on some days when the fishing is in full swing, the work will provide much greater convenience for all who use the facility. GOODBYE TO A FAMILIAR PERSONALITY The plan as it is set forth now is to widen the main length of the CHARLIE 1999-2012 wharf with a 10-foot addition on its south side (in the above picture, Passed away February 22 the side closest to the camera). Imagine you are standing against the little white building at the right, and you are looking along the wharf HEN I SPOKE to the harbour entrance. The addition will begin approximately where t o P a t s y the small boat is moored (slightly right of centre) and will extend W MacDonald for the outwards for a distance of about 150 feet. The result will be a wider first time after road which will provide much more space for loading and unloading returning from our of vessels while simultaneously allowing vehicles easier access to the trip to Florida, she outer end of the wharf where the derricks are presently located. asked me if I knew The original application also called for an extension to the end of that Charlie had the T at the outer end of the wharf, but unfortunately this was denied passed on. I did, when the funding for the current project was allocated. This addition because someone would have made more useful space for some of the larger boats, and had emailed me would have provided greater shelter when a NW wind is pushing while I was away. swells directly into the harbour. Application is likely to be made for A picture was included, the one here. this improvement in a future year, but it became a casualty of the Charlie was a well-known character for many years around Lark government austerity measures. Harbour. He had friends all over town and he visited them on a The picture at top right shows the gigantic pile of lumber which regular basis, receiving his favourite (too many) snacks wherever he will be used for the project. Most of the lumber is protected with went. But every dog has his day, and Charlie’s day came on anti-rot compound and the pieces vary from 30 feet down to perhaps Wednesday 22 February, at the age of thirteen years, a good age for 8 feet in length, measuring 8 by 8 inches in section. They are banded a dog. in bundles of 16 pieces, and there are some 30 such bundles, each It may be true that some people disliked Charlie—he did have a worth many thousands of dollars—a lot of money. disturbing habit of wandering all over the road sometimes. But he Funding for this and other Small Craft Harbour facilities comes was an amiable creature who never meant harm to anyone, and he from the Federal Government of Canada in a program costing brought pleasure to many, I know. “$57 million in funding to undertake necessary dredging, repair and Charlie will be missed by his many friends, not least by the support harbour operations and Harbour Authorities across the MacDonald family whose lives he enriched for thirteen years, and by (Continued in column at right) his feline friend in the picture.

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR MESSAGE FROM OUR RECTOR HC=Holy Communion; MP=Morning Prayer; EP=Evening Prayer — Canon Nellie Thomas — 2012 MAY 2012 ANGLICAN PARISH OF THE BAY OF ISLANDS YH ACW Card Games EVERY TUESDAY until end of May 1st Tues York Harbour ACW Meeting 3rd Thur Lark Harbour Spring Cleanup Day Mother’s Day 4th Fri York Harbour Spring Cleanup Day N MOTHER’S DAY, three elderly ladies were sitting around a 6th Sun 11:00am, Morning Prayer Otable having a lunch. The first says, “I'm getting so forgetful- I 12th Sat 10:00am - Flea Market, Lark Harbour ACW was standing at the top of the stairs and I couldn't remember whether 13th Sun Mother’s Day - 11:00am, Baptism & HC I was going down or had just come up.” 15th Tues York Harbour ACW Meeting The second lady says, “You think that's bad? 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The BLOW•ME•DOWNER Issue 63 2012 May 04 Friday Page 3 of 6 Obituary Obituary BERNARD DWIGHT PIEROWAY HELENA MARGARET PARK 1949 - 2012 1915 December 23 - 2012 April 11

N TUESDAY MARCH 13 2012 T WAS WITH GREAT SADNESS that the OBernard Pieroway, at the age of Ifamily of the late Helena Margaret 63, passed peacefully away. He was Park announce her passing at the Corner the loving husband of Lesley; Brook Long Term Care Facility on cherished father to Randy (France) April 11, 2012 at the age of 96 years. and the late Neil; stepfather to Tyler She leaves to mourn with fond and (Melissa) of Hayward, California; loving memories daughters: Olive beloved brother to Joyce Lehr (Lar) Sheppard of Lark Harbour, Dorothy of Newfoundland, Rosemary Barrett Sheppard of Corner Brook, Mona (the late Jack) of Newfoundland, Wheeler of York Harbour, and Rod Pieroway (Phyllis) of Newfoundland, Donna Lehr (Nate) of Christina Gilbert (Raleigh) of Lark Harbour; sons: Russell (Louise) Newfoundland, Barbara Park of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, and Paul of Halifax, NS, Derek (Helen) of Lark Harbour, and William Pieroway (Kathie) of Kanata, ON; and the cherished grandfather to (Shelia) of Fort McMurray, AB; 18 grandchildren, 26 great Harley. He will also be missed by his many nieces and nephews. grandchildren, 9 great-great grandchildren, and sister Molly Young Bernard was predeceased by his parents, Louis Broderick and of Corner Brook; also a large circle of nieces, nephews, relatives and Olive Butler and his brother Ben. The family received friends at the friends. She was predeceased by her husband Robert (1995), Pinecrest Visitation Centre, 2500 Baseline Road, Ottawa, on Friday, brothers William, Harvey, Richard, and Chesley Sheppard, sisters March 16th, 2012 from 2 to 4pm and 7 to 9pm. Inurnment took place Martha Hynes, Prudence Pardy, Annie Pennell, and sons-in-law at Pinecrest Cemetery on Friday, April 27. In lieu of flowers, Frederick Wheeler and Charles Sheppard. Visitation took place at donations can be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation. Online St James Anglican Church, Lark Harbour, on Thursday and Friday condolences could be made at www.colefuneralservices.com April 12. Adapted from The Ottawa Citizen, 2012 March 14. A Service of Thanksgiving and Celebration for Helena’s Life was held at St James Anglican Church, Lark Harbour, on Saturday April, 14, 2012, at 2pm, with Reverend Malcolm Palmer officiating, At this time of their grief and loss we offer assisted by Lay Ministers George Sheppard and Glenys Batt. A our sincerest condolences to the families of those whose obituaries appear on this page. tribute and greeting were presented by Jacqueline McCarthy, scriptures were read by Jacqueline McCarthy, Sheri Sheppard,

Robert Wheeler and Doreen Wheeler, and Joe Sheppard accompanied himself on the guitar and sang This is my Home. Music TEMPTING PROVIDENCE for the hymns was provided by Don Travers and Marie Park. Interment followed at the Anglican Cemetery. As expressions of a play by sympathy flowers were graciously accepted and donations made to THEATRE NEWFOUNDLAND LABRADOR the St James Anglican Church Memorial Fund. The family guest book could be signed or memorial donations made by visiting the Wednesday, May 9 at 7:00 pm website at www.country-haven.ca. presented at St James School The family wishes to thank all for their words of sympathy and support and many acts of kindness in this time of bereavement. St James All Grade School and the towns of Lark Harbour and York Harbour are very fortunate to have Theatre Obituary Newfoundland Labrador's ARCHIBALD “ARCH” JOHN KENDELL p l a y T e m p t i n g 1933 May 17 - 2012 April 26 P r o v i d e n c e b e i n g presented on Wednesday, T WAS WITH GREAT SADNESS that the May 9 at 7:00 pm in the Ifamily of the late Archibald Kendell school gymnasium. announced his passing at the Western Tickets can be purchased Memorial Regional Hospital on for $10.00 at the school Thursday April 26, 2012 at the age of at 681-2620, or by calling 78 years. 681- 2406 (Bonnie) or He left to mourn with fond and 637-7123 (Helen) after loving memories his wife of 48 years, school hours. Lois Kendell; children: Beverley Tempting Providence Kendell (Murray), Boyd Kendell is the story of the nurse (Alison); grandchildren: Samantha Myra Bennett. The play Sheppard, Stephanie Sheppard, Cassie has been performed by Mauger, David Anstey; sisters: Pearl this cast for the past ten Childs-Sheppard (Alan), Charlotte years throughout the Sheppard; sisters-in-law: Mary, Maisie, world and has won lots of Melissa; also a large circle of nieces, nephews, relatives and friends. awards. It is a heartfelt Arch was predeceased by his son Darren, daughter Sharon, story you will love. parents Charles & Deborah; sisters: Mary Joyce (Clifton), Olive Sheppard (Richard), Melina Childs (Thomas), Susannah Snooks The story: British-trained nurse & midwife Myra Grimsley arrived in (Thomas), Amelia Childs-Rideout; brothers: George Kendell, James Newfoundland from her native London, England in 1921 after hearing Kendell (Regina), Wilson Kendell, Henry Kendell, Clarence Kendell, of the desperate need for her work in rural communities. She was one and Gordon Kendell. Visitation took place at St James Anglican of the first group of outport nurses who became a legend for Church, Lark Harbour, on Saturday April 28, 2012 from the hours of performing a variety of medical tasks, from delivering babies to 2-4 & 7-9pm. The funeral service took place on Sunday April 29, setting bones to extracting teeth. All this she did in all kinds of 2012, from St James Anglican Church, Lark Harbour at 2pm. with weather while travelling by foot, horse, dogsled, and boat along the Rev Nellie Thomas officiating. Cremation followed. 320-kilometer rugged Northern Peninsula. She was known As expressions of sympathy flowers were graciously accepted or throughout Newfoundland and Labrador as “Florence Nightingale of donations could be made to a charity of one’s choice. The family the North.” Tempting Providence is a wonderful, heart-felt portrayal guest book could be signed or memorial donations made by visiting of Nurse Bennett who has been honoured many times over by the our website at www.country-haven.ca. governments of Canada and Britain.

P age 4 o f 6 The BLOW•ME•DOWNER Issue 63 2012 May 04 Friday EDITORIAL The Fly on the Wall Do we lose when the Province has only one MP Overheard in an Ottawa Washroom on the Government side? E OFTEN HEAR COMMENTS made on open line shows and Welsewhere that Newfoundland loses out because only one of Back-Bencher: Well, Pete, what’s going to happen about this F-35 our seven Federal MPs is on the Government side. As of the last jet business? election, our Federal standing in Ottawa is: 1 Conservative, 4 Pete: We’ll just sit it out, Bob. It’ll blow over soon. We’ll get what Liberal, 2 NDP. The lone Conservative is Peter Penashue, MP for we want in the end. Labrador. B-B: You sure about that? Mr Penashue was elected for the first time in 2011 and currently Pete: Heavens above, yes! People get bored pretty fast, y’know. holds the Cabinet post of Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs. The B-B: But Tom Mulcair’s going to worry at it like a hungry terrier. Office of Intergovernmental Affairs “provides advice to the Prime Pete: Sure he will, for a while. But new brooms sweep clean, Minister, the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and Cabinet on y’know, and he’ll get tired of it. federal-provincial-territorial relations (FPT), the evolution of our B-B: But it’s a lot of money, Pete. The cost of even one of those Federation and Canadian unity”. * Relations between the Federal planes would put water and sewer in a lot of little towns all Government and the Provinces are not high priority with the Harper across the country. Government, and considering the Prime Minister’s propensity to Pete: You’re right, Bob, it would. But Steve wants those jets too. ignore advice, it would seem that Minister Penashue has a mammoth And what if the Russians or the Chinese attack us? Sewer task ahead of him to influence Government policies. systems won’t protect us, now will they? Minister Penashue also holds the office of President of the B-B: (laughing) Well, I’m not so sure about that, Pete. Have you Queen’s Privy Council for Canada. This portfolio is really a ever walked along those open ditches in some of our little sinecure and is usually, as now, given to the Minister of Canadian towns that don’t have water and sewer systems? Intergovernmental Affairs along with his main portfolio. Pete: (also laughing) That’s provincial business anyway. (Wryly) Consequently one has to ask, Is Penashue’s appointment to these But I never thought of that, Bob ... Those open ditches might relatively unprestigious Cabinet positions a reflection of his just scare the Americans away! Besides, Bob, I want to fly in personal insignificance, or of the PM’s apparent low esteem for one o’ those F35s and I might never get another chance. Newfoundland? Imagine zooming over from Halifax to Ottawa in one o’ them! Given this present Government’s intransigent attitudes, it seems Lots more fun than riding a helicopter in Newfoundland! unlikely that having more Conservative members from (Pause, then dreamily) It would be so cool! Newfoundland would give our Province any more influence than we now have. But with opposition members like MP Gerry Byrne and others in the Opposition benches, we are quite well served. C.A.P. - A CASUALTY OF Mr Byrne himself is highly vigilant on all matters affecting THE FEDERAL BUDGET Newfoundland: the Fishery, Veterans Affairs, Marine Atlantic, Search and Rescue, social welfare matters such as EI and pensions, The 2012 Federal Economic Action Plan (the Budget) announced that and a multitude of other topics. At the same time he presents to us, funding will cease for the Community Access Program under Industry his constituents, information on these topics, regularly using the open Canada. In partnership with the Provincial Government, CAP has line shows and other news media to advise us of what is happening provided and maintained computers in our Library and at 145 other in Ottawa. Along with other able politicians from this Province (like locations in the Province for the past several years. Funding did in MP Jack Harris, recently appointed NDP Foreign Affairs critic) our fact terminate on 2012 March 31. interests are protected as well as can be expected under this Federal Government. In conclusion it is doubtful whether having more Very little further information has yet been made public, but the members on the Government side would bring us any more influence following communication has been received from Shawn Tetford, on the Harper Government which has shown itself unreceptive to Chief Administrator of the Public Library Service in Newfoundland: advice or commentary from dissenters of any political stripe. * See Website www.pco-bcp.gc.ca/aia/index.asp?lang=eng An official will be contacting Department of Industry representatives to discuss the impacts of this cut and to request a reinstatement of the program. No decision has yet been made regarding continuation if federal funding is not reinstated. Newfoundland Labrador Public Libraries will continue to provide public computer access for the next couple of months with no change in the current service levels. Within two months we hope to develop a plan to be able to provide some level of public computer access from public library sites across the province. The level of service will depend on the funding we are able to identify.

Library patrons are encouraged to read the following to add their support to efforts to save the CAP funding. The End of Community Access Program (CAP) Funding Could Mean the End of Public Access Computers in Libraries Eddie Joyce, MHA The Federal Government has decided to cancel funding for CAP Bay of Islands District which provides public access computers and internet services to 94 public library sites in Newfoundland and Labrador. Please help If you require assistance, please contact my office at: convince the Federal Government to reinstate this funding which Fortis Tower, 2nd Floor, Suite 203 would allow public computer access to continue in public libraries. 4 Herald Avenue, P.O.Box 2006, Please visit Corner Brook, NL, A2H 6J8 http://www.savecap.ca/index.html Ph: 634-7883 Fax: 634-7885 Email: [email protected] and under “What Can I Do” click “Use this Form” and respond to the questions posed. Click send to submit your response to the Minister of Industry. The BLOW•ME•DOWNER Issue 63 2012 May 04 Friday Page 5 of 6

TOWN OF REGULATIONS FOR SPRING CLEANUP LARK HARBOUR Lark Harbour - Thursday May 3 York Harbour - Friday May 4 Report of Regular Meeting of 2012 April 17, 2012 ALL ITEMS MUST BE CURBSIDE BY 8:00AM PRESENT: Deputy Mayor Jamie Park The following items WILL be accepted: Councillors : Llewellyn Childs, Pauline Sheppard, and Stanley Childs Clerks : Joanna Pottle (recording minutes) and Ashley Gallant ‚ Mattress - Box spring ABSENT: Mayor John Parsons ‚ Furniture - Chairs - Sofas ‚ Televisions Meeting commenced at 7:00pm. ‚ Computers ! Ms Joanna Pottle gave an update on the Recreation Committee. ‚ Household appliances and other recyclable metals The signs are posted in local stores and in LH and YH Town ‚ Vehicle parts aggregate weight 70 lbs Halls. Ms Pottle stated that there are not many volunteers yet. ‚ Other items normally associated with residential household Council agreed to keep signs posted for another month. ! Minutes of 2012 March 20 adopted. The following items will NOT be accepted: ! Water/Sewer Update – Town’s Engineer confirmed that the ‚ Hazardous wastes such as paints Strategy has been completed and approved by DFO and that he is ‚ Chemicals now working on the plan. When completed, it will go to DFO for ‚ Solvents approval. Positive signs for start date at the end of April. ‚ Propane - Gas - Oil tanks - Liquids ! Washed out culvert and road at Bottle Cove and the breakwater at ‚ Batteries the end of Main Street are still work in progress. Council hopes ‚ Regular household garbage to receive funding to help cover costs of these repairs. Council ‚ Earthen material - Large tree stumps will apply for Community Employment Enhancement Program. ‚ Construction material - Roof shingles - Concrete - Bricks ! Council is in process of applying for a playground grant from the ‚ Vehicle parts over 70 lbs Department of Recreation and Sports. ‚ Tires ! Discussion held regarding vandalism in our playground area. ‚ Other material NOT associated with residential household Further action to be taken to try and resolve this concern. ‚ Windows ! Cell phone coverage update – Meeting held on April 9, 2012 with Please secure all items that may cause MHA Eddie Joyce and Bell Aliant. Petition sent to us from Eddie damage or injury due to wind. Joyce’s office to be posted in local stores and the Town Halls. Mr Joyce will present the petition in the House of Assembly. ! ACAP will be out on April 26, 2012 to identify designated green FOOD BANK NOTES space areas in our town. by ! Cheque received from Western Regional Wellness Coalition for Susan Harvey $400.00; will be used to sponsor Towns’ Soccer Program. ! Financial Report – Approved with accounts payable of $1,655.58 ! Collections report reviewed. Council agreed to send a letter of reminder to tax payers with overdue balances on accounts. ! Corner Brook & Area Sub-Region Waste Management Committee Hurray for the Sunday School! to be discussed at next meeting when all members are present. LTHOUGH THE GENERAL LEVEL OF DONATIONS of food has been ! Viewed appreciation award presented to Jaxon Park who recently Arather low, we did produce one splendid collection just before helped his grandfather Roy Park collect eight bags of garbage at Easter. I was privileged to deliver seven milk crates of well-selected the playground. A thank-you note has also been sent to Mr Park. food to the outlet in Corner Brook. It seems that the greater part of ! Discussed snow clearing complaints re Park & Youden Road and it came from the Sunday School. They have been bringing a food Pennell Road. item with them each Sunday, and the results have been very ! Further information to be gathered on a town Recycling Program. impressive. Thanks, Shelley and Joanne, for a wonderful effort! ! Building permit approved for a resident in the community. The rest of us will soon have the chance to show that we, too, can ! Agreed to support request from resident to open their home as a remember and prove that we care about those not as lucky as we are vacation home. and who cannot afford to feed their families properly. On Monday, ! Agreed to contact Cycle Solutions (Peter Ollerhead) and ask him 4 June, the Food Bank Network will be holding its Christmas in to attend next meeting to discuss mountain bike trail development. June Food Drive. The procedure will be much the same as in other ! Council agreed to post signs in local businesses regarding years, but watch for further information and remember to put out Hazardous Waste Materials drop-off at the Pepsi Centre. something for the collectors. ! Motion was made to approve two street light requests. ! Councils from both Lark Harbour and York Harbour will meet on REMEMBER CHRISTMAS IN JUNE! April 24th, 2012 to discuss the joint website. ! Still no word received regarding a VON nurse replacement. Details of the A Thank You note has been sent to Mr Roy Park and Christmas in June his grandson Jaxon Park for collecting eight bags Food Bank Collection of garbage from our playground area. will be published in the The Corner Brook Pepsi Centre will be holding June B•M•D which will be HAZARDOUS MATERIAL CLEANUP DAYS in mail boxes before the end on both Saturdays, June 23rd and Sept 15th, 2012. Any hazardous material can be dropped off of May. at the Pepsi Centre on the dates listed.

Automobile - SERVICE & REPAIRS - Gas & Diesel Have you ever noticed that a lot of the pennies in your CURLING ONE STOP small change are American? It’s true! So when Canadian Owners: Kevin & Betty Wayson pennies have all disappeared, as they will over the next Phone 785-2619 366 Curling St, Corner Brook year or two, we’ll still have some American ones in our pockets . . . and maybe nothing else. P age 6 o f 6 The BLOW•ME•DOWNER Issue 63 2012 May 04 Friday it deals with a group known as the Knights Templar, originally LIBRARY NOTES formed to protect pilgrims travelling to Jerusalem. Being skilled by warriors, they were quite successful in that effort. Their power grew Susan Harvey and they amassed great treasures: gold and jewels, beautiful objects, and land and property over much of Europe. They were believed to have been disbanded in 1307 by the French king. Mr Berry assumes HE LOCAL LIBRARY BOARD held its AGM on Tuesday 17 April. that in fact the Templars still exist, still seeing themselves as warriors TLong-time chairperson Susan Harvey resigned her position, and and training their members in fighting skills. On the face of it, they Bonnie Wheeler was elected to replace her. Norma Pickett will stand are a group of monks living in an abbey, which happens to be a in as secretary, and Penny Sheppard and Melissa Kendell will remain building once owned by the Templars and which turns out to contain as vice-chairman and treasurer respectively. No changes are planned vast amounts of Templar records. However, somewhere along the in the Library’s operation, but there is some concern as to the way they have lost not only most of their land and property, but also continuation of computer access with the federal government’s their physical treasure. The Masters have been secretive, and the shutting down of the CAP program. records contain only occasional clues as to what happened to the Library Notes was a casualty of the space shortage in the April treasure. Present-day monks are anxious to track it down, and a Blow-Me-Downer due mostly to the large number of obituaries in that historian and some friends are also hot on the trail. When several of issue. The rotating collection has been here since March, and should this latter group die unexpectedly, a number of their friends enter the be with us until July. Time for everyone to check out some of the hunt. Most of the action in the book tells of various hostile interesting books. Some of the following will be reviewed in more interactions between this group and the current Master and his band detail next month. of Brothers. Both groups come to believe that part of the hidden treasure is the Great Devise, which reportedly is proof that Jesus’ 1. Connelly, Michael Brass Verdict resurrection was a fake; a good story invented by early Christians. 2. Connelly, Michael Nine Dragons Both groups reach the treasure cache at the same time in an exciting, 3. Parker, Robert B. Brimstone somewhat hard to credit, finale. A long book, with lots of action. 4. Berry, Steve The Templar Legacy 5. Burke, James Lee The Glass Rainbow 5. The Glass Rainbow is a rather different kind of mystery; more 6. Smith, Alexander McCall Love Over Scotland realistic maybe. The action is not set in a city, but in rural Louisiana 7. Hill, Susan The Vows of Silence where many of the residents are poor, uneducated, and - as you might 8. Gruber, Michael Valley of Bones guess - prepared to do pretty much anything for a buck. The police 9. George, Elizabeth This Body of Death are not portrayed as simple stand-up types single-mindedly 10. Dekker, Ted Boneman’s Daughters determined to promote justice; they have lives. The main character, 11. Goodall, Jane Hope for Animals and Their World Dave Robicheaux, is a Vietnam veteran with memories and is a 12. Mantel, Hilary Wolf Hall recovering alcoholic. In his job he must deal with some pretty evil types; but it needs to be done legally, rather than just beating them up 1. Brass Verdict features Mr Connelly’s usual main character, or shooting them. His best friend is even more conflicted, and Detective Harry Bosch; but this story is told from the viewpoint of controlling his behaviour seems to be a large part of Dave’s job. In another of his characters we have met before, lawyer Mickey Haller. spite of the various confusions, the reader will want to know what As primarily a defence attorney, Mickey often works on the opposite happens and how it all gets sorted out in the end. side from Harry; but they do co-operate when they are able. In the present story Mickey unexpectedly inherits a number of interesting 6. Love Over Scotland tells more of the entertaining lives of those cases when a lawyer friend is murdered. The most important case living at 44 Scotland Street. The cast of characters seems to have involves a Hollywood producer accused of murdering his wife and her changed a bit, but still pretty lively. lover. The case is high profile and very profitable for Mickey; but requires a good deal of hard work to build a convincing defence for 7. The Vows of Silence is an English police procedural. Plainly his wealthy client. However, he is also involved in Bosch’s search for things have changed in England, as there is a great deal of shooting. the murderer of his friend. Things get complicated, and we learn how different points of the law can be used by the lawyers trying a case to 8. Valley of Bones gives us a police detective in Miami dealing with give their clients an extra bit of help. The end result is something of a suspect prepared to confess to several other crimes, but not the one a surprise. The book is a pretty good read. she is being questioned about.

2. Nine Dragons is told from Harry Bosch’s viewpoint. It tells of a 9. This Body of Death is a novel featuring Inspector Lynley, some of Chinese family who run a liquor store. The father of the family, John whose cases you might have seen on the British television. Things Li, is shot and killed in the store. There is no obvious motive for his are different: Lynley’s wife has been murdered; he is no longer killing, but the police discover a link to a Chinese gang, apparently working with Barbara Havers; the new department chief, a woman, charging the Lis for protection. Harry has to call in the Asian gang has made herself very unpopular in the department. A long book, but unit for help, and he learns a lot about the ruthless way in which the worth the effort. gangs work. He does already have a Chinese connection, in that his ex-wife and his daughter live in Hong Kong. Harry has been to Hong 10. The Boneman’s Daughters has a lot of suspense in it. The Kong before to visit, but must go again in response to a personal Boneman is a serial killer, looking for the perfect daughter; he emergency. It seems the gang has connections back in China, kidnaps young women and kills them when they turn out to be less including Hong Kong. Harry’s daughter is in danger, and he must go than perfect. After six failed attempts, he takes the estranged and try to keep her safe. After a very exciting series of events, Harry daughter of a policeman, Ryan Evans, who then takes after the makes it home again. Then he finally succeeds in solving Mr Li’s Boneman on his own. Some of his efforts are misinterpreted by his murder, again a surprise. Another good read. fellow officers, and they believe he may be the Boneman himself. Lots of confusion, an exciting conclusion. 3. Brimstone is a western by the author of the Spenser mysteries featured on TV a few years ago. It is much less complicated than the 11. Hope for Animals and Their World tells of some of the efforts mysteries. The two main characters, Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, being made to rescue endangered species from the brink of seem to operate under a code they both understand without many extinction. Jane Goodall, famous for her own work with various words. Though their conversations have few words, communication primates, especially gorillas, recounts several inspiring stories of seems to be very effective. Legal questions are not a problem for determined people who succeed in saving a supposedly doomed them; they just ask themselves whether to kill someone or not. There species from extinction. These include whooping cranes, stick is really no plot as such. The two get jobs as deputy sheriffs in the insects, horses and albatrosses - often in very isolated locations such town of Brimstone. Their main concern is the action between the as remote islands and Mongolia. owner of the town’s largest saloon and an evangelistic preacher. Most of the proponents wind up dead. Easy reading. 12. Wolf Hall is a historical novel set in the exciting times when Henry the Eighth was king. Thomas Cromwell is the main character 4. The Templar Legacy is a book that gives you a lot of history, and we see a great deal of his actions which influenced developments especially religious history, with some fictitious additions. Most of at the time. Your editor especially enjoyed this book.