Wildwoods Child - Paperback

by D. D. Gillespie (Author)

Nora Macpherson is a rookie RCMP constable on her first assignment to Moose Forks, a ranching and logging community tucked into a wilderness landscape of snow-capped mountains, dense coniferous forests and glacial lakes and rivers. As one of the first-ever female Mounties, Nora must contend with the biases of some of her male colleagues as well as the social isolation of being a law enforcement officer in a small town. She befriends a young teacher, Abby Clarke, whose problem student, Tess Talbot, involves them in a search for answers to an old puzzle. Solving this mystery awakens Nora to the realization that there are many other unsolved disappearances haunting the northcountry.

Author Biography

D.D. Gillespie is a teacher, writer and traveller who has spent several years in the area where these stories are set. She loves the people and the spirit of the wild country and hopes to awaken the awareness of others to the beauty and potential of life outside urban centers. She is especially concerned about the fate of the many people, many of them women from First Nations communities, who have gone missing in the northcountry during the last forty years under mysterious circumstances.