Blue and Golden Year

When Kenneth spots maggots feeding on something shiny in the dumpster behind a 7-Eleven, he knows a crime has been committed. But exactly who, what, where, when and how are unravelled through a legion cast of characters, changes of season, and changes of setting throughout A Blue and Golden Year.

Up in a Canadian prairie city lives tightly wound Audrey. Life would be easier for her if her old high school boyfriend wasn’t a happily married family man, and her squandering, lazy sister, Lillian, wasn’t such a damper in her own family life.

All Lillian wants is to just get back on her feet, and she wouldn't mind knowing what happened to her drug-dealing boyfriend, Iggy; there’s a dead body in his apartment and he’s suddenly nowhere to be found.

Meanwhile, Iggy has gone down to Mexico where he reunites with his old flame, Iris. A restaurateur, Iris is having issues of her own with Ernest, her business partner and former lover, whom more than a few people would like to see end up in a dumpster.

As the tale weaves back in forth from the North to the South, the body count rises, because some mysteries are just too juicy to be kept alive for.