Wayne Arthurson, Author at Criminal Element

An excerpt from A Killing Winter by Wayne Arthurson (available April 10, 2012). Leo Desroches, a half-Cree, half-French-Canadian reporter in Edmonton, returns in A Killing Winter, the sequel to Wayne Arthurson’s lauded debut murder mystery Fall from Grace. Undercover as a homeless man, Leo’s got his hands full both on the job and in his…

There is No Music

By Wayne Arthurson

June 11, 2011

There is no music. My main character, journalist Leo Desroches, doesn’t listen to the radio, doesn’t talk about his favorite songs, nor does he try to impress anyone by referencing a musical artist. For someone like me, having no music in my novel can be seen as an unusual decision. You see, before I got…