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Hamish Cameron is a retired judge who becomes a sleuth when he notices that things are not quite right at his retirement home. New Dawn is located in the idyllic Nova Scotia seaside town of Ashcroft-by-the-Sea. When his friend John Devlin dies, he rightly suspects that the residents are being used as guinea pigs for testing anti-ageing medications and are being defrauded of their estates. Success in bringing the perpetrators to justice brings Hamish further commissions to track down sabotage at the local paper mill, and to investigate dirty tricks in Wednesday night sailboat races. Hamish uses his political connections, the hacking skills of Sean Carroll, and the advice of his long-time lady friend and law professor Izzie French to ferret out what is going on.
Hamish Cameron and Sean Carroll are hired to find a daughter whose mother gave her up for adoption twenty years ago. They discover that she died tragically at age 13. In the meantime, another girl has disappeared in Riverview. What did they have in common? And how has the culprit remained hidden for so long? Unravelling the mystery puts Sean and Hamish into unexpected danger.
When a student dies of a drug overdose, the Principal of the local high school hires Cameron and Carroll to investigate. They help to apprehend a dealer, who was once a trainee on a sailing ship for at-risk teens. The dealer’s death in prison suggests that a drug cartel with links to the Bahamas is involved. But who runs the operation in Nova Scotia, and how are drugs smuggled in? A tragedy on board the training vessel leads to a suprising denouement.
Sean Carroll gets a panicked phone call in the middle of the night to pick up Olivia at her house. She was his heart throb in high school, a beautiful and seductive young woman. When he gets to her house, he makes a grisly discovery, and suddenly he is the middle of an RCMP investigation. He and his partner, Hamish Cameron, uncover a truly evil operation that they attempt to dismantle despite the danger that this poses for them.
Cameron and Carroll, Investigators are asked to find Amelia, the daughter of a Canadian mining magnate. Hamish Cameron contacts a former colleague in Ottawa, who ends up dead. HIs death appears to be linked to his inquiries into the casino built in the African country of Summerland decades ago, around the time Amelia lived there. Hamish and Sean Carroll try to unravel the threads connecting the various events, but face mortal danger from Summerland’s tyrannical government and those who do not want the past to be disinterred.
Events decades before in Germany haunt the present lives of several of the characters. What starts as a favour for a friend in Halifax by retired judge Hamish Cameron turns into a web of intrigue and murder. But just as he and his detective-agency partner, Sean Carroll, seem to be closing in on the murderer, they realise that things are very different from what they thought. The answer is buried in the past, and it is in the interest of the culprit to keep it buried.

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