Black Irises

The death of a young woman, Sydney Brewin, in the small town of Newton, Ontario occurs during a federal by-election. And this death has eerie similarities to a suspected murder, decades before, of a darkly charismatic, artistically gifted young woman named Annelie Danziger.

Chief among the points of connection with the Brewin and Danziger cases is that one of the by-election candidates, frontrunner Kent Wolseley, was once in a relationship with Danziger.

So what dark secrets connect Annelie Danziger’s death to Sydney Brewin’s? Only Ian Guthrie, a local journalist struggling to hang on to his job, who was once a close friend of Wolseley, might be able to the solve the mysteries of what occurred with both young women – and the mystery behind Kent Wolseley’s charmed life and rise to power.