Hands Like Clouds: An Elias McCann Mystery

 

When environmental warrior Ira Connaught turns up hanging by the neck from an ancient rain-forest cedar overlooking the wasteland of a clear-cut on Clayoquot Sound, everyone seems content to declare his death a suicide. For reluctant community coroner Elias McCann, Ira's death looks increasingly like a murder.

 

Published by Dundurn Group Castle Street Mysteries, 2000: 315 pages.

 

Awards:

 

2000 Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel.

 

Reviews:

 

The Vancouver Sun: Mark Zuehlke's "protagonist in Hands Like Clouds is one of the most original I've ever encountered in crime fiction."

 

The Mystery Review: "I was completely swept up by Hands Like Clouds."