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He was born in England, immigrated to Canada in 1954 and currently resides in Victoria, British Columbia. Evans was born in England.
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Seaweed on Ice (Touchwood Mystery)
( Coast Salish street cop Silas Seaweed has his hands ful...)
Coast Salish street cop Silas Seaweed has his hands full. An elderly Jewish immigrant has disappeared. An old blind woman has been murdered. Valuable art stolen from German Jews during the Second World War has begun to show up for sale in Victoria's auction houses, and the word on the street is that collectors are planning to loot a priceless Coast Salish archeological site. Unravelling these mysteries becomes a life-and-death quest, for when his investigation leads Seaweed into romance, it's just possible that his lover is a ruthless killer.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1894898516/?tag=2022091-20
Seaweed on the Street
( Pretensions, conspiracy, lies all play a part in this r...)
Pretensions, conspiracy, lies all play a part in this riveting book that kicks off TouchWood Editions new mystery series featuring Coast Salish investigator Silas Seaweed. A billionaires daughter with an unsavoury past has mysteriously disappeared. Silas Seaweed, a savvy, street-smart investigator based in Victoria, B.C., is put on the case. His search for the young woman leads him on a trail of murder, greed and obsessive violence. Overcoming such obstacles as a pair of ruthless cocaine dealers, the murder of key witnesses and a failed attempt on his own life, Seaweed perseveres in his quest to bring a master criminal to justice, his journey taking him from the darker side of Victorias downtown to Nevadas glittering casinos. Blending modern-day crime detection with age-old Coast Salish ritual, Seaweed on the Street is an absorbing, suspenseful page-turner with a pace that never lets up from the first page to the last.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1894898346/?tag=2022091-20
Seaweed on the Rocks
( In this fourth mystery of the Seaweed series, Victoria ...)
In this fourth mystery of the Seaweed series, Victoria neighbourhood cop Silas Seaweed is as always sensitive to his Coast Salish culture, but when he's confronted by a ten-foot-tall bear on a marsh on the city's outskirts, he suspects that this is no creature from the unknown world but someone out to con him. And Silas is right, but his attempts to unmask the bear lead him into a labyrinth of blackmail and murder. Along the way he investigates a homeless people's sit-in at Beacon Hill Park, a burglary in the office of hypnotherapist Dr. Lawrence Trew, and the barely legal world of small-time hood Titus Silverman. And whenever Silas is not busy finding corpses, he's on the lookout for a missing artist and two eight-year-old runaways.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1894898737/?tag=2022091-20
Seaweed in the Soup (Touchwood Mysteries)
( Silas Seaweed is back on the beat as the street-smart C...)
Silas Seaweed is back on the beat as the street-smart Coast Salish cop. A gardener is found dead and the prime suspects are two young local party girls. Silas is handed the case that soon takes a bloodier turn when a policemans wife is killed. Silas begins to suspect that these murders and other events are related to the recent tide of gang-related crimes that has been sweeping British Columbia. Just as he draws closer to finding concrete evidence, Silas finds his own reputation in danger and is suspended from the police force. His quest to clear his name and find the killers leads him from Victorias loud and steamy nightclubs and bars to the remote and quiet islands of Desolation Sound. The fifth mystery in this popular series, Seaweed in the Soup is a thrilling and suspenseful tale that skilfully combines a hard-boiled mystery narrative with the mythology of the Coast Salish.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1894898923/?tag=2022091-20
Seaweed on the Rocks by Stanley Evans (2008-08-05)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01K14M8JA/?tag=2022091-20
Stanley Evans
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He began his career by writing articles for newspapers and magazines. He has written two plays that were produced at the Arts Club in Vancouver, and has published several novels. Since 2005, he has published annual novels in a mystery series featuring a Coast Salish man as an investigator.
After graduating from college, he worked as a college instructor.
At the age of 23, he emigrated to Canada, where he has settled in Victoria, British Columbia. He worked for some time as a deep-sea fisherman.
He began his writing career by publishing stories in newspapers and magazines. Some drew from his experiences as a soldier and deep-sea fisherman.
Two of his plays were produced at the Arts Club in Vancouver.
Evans" books have received positive reviews in the Canadian press, and on mystery genre websites. "Victoria author Stanley Evans’ series protagonist, forty-year-old Coast Salish hard-boiled street cop, Silas Seaweed, has a lot in common with others of his ilk–a taste for the sauce, an eye for the babes, a liking for rough justice, a disdain for police bureaucrats, a sympathy for the underdog and as much independence as his feral cat, Personal Computer, that he shares his one-man office with. But what sets Seaweed apart is his First Nation heritage, the off-beat characters that surround him, and his ability to call upon the traditions of his people’s distant past to solve crimes of the present.
And despite Evans’ admissions that the Warrior Reserve where Seaweed lives and the Mohawt Bay Band of which Silas is a member do not exist, there is an authentic ring to each of the novels in the series that makes the settings, characters and stories significantly entertaining." M. Wayne Cunningham for MysteriousReviews.com
"Makes great use of West Coast aboriginal mythology and religion… Let"s hope Silas Seaweed returns." The Globe and Mail
"… written with strong plots … worth reading and lingering over." The Hamilton Spectator
"Silas Seaweed’s insouciant charm is infectious, Evans’ characters from the underbelly of society are superb and critical observations of Vancouver Island society are refreshingly candid and often revealing." ABCBookWorld.com
"Among Canada"s most exciting new crime fiction.
They are written in clean, crisp prose..They capture that strange mix of natural beauty and rough-around-the-edges humanity that is the essence of Vancouver Island." Calgary Herald.
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Seaweed on the Rocks
( In this fourth mystery of the Seaweed series, Victoria ...)
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Seaweed on the Street
( Pretensions, conspiracy, lies all play a part in this r...)
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Seaweed in the Soup (Touchwood Mysteries)
( Silas Seaweed is back on the beat as the street-smart C...)
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Seaweed on Ice (Touchwood Mystery)
( Coast Salish street cop Silas Seaweed has his hands ful...)
- Seaweed on the Rocks by Stanley Evans (2008-08-05)
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Seaweed on the Rocks
