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47 Sorrows: A Thaddeus Lewis Mystery

Janet Kellough

• Dundurn
• ISBN 1459709287 / 978-1-45970-928-7
• July 2013
• Mass market paperback $11.99

The bloated corpse of a man dressed in women's clothing washes up near Thaddeus Lewis's home, bearing nothing but a green ribbon. It's "Black '47" and Irish emigrants with ship's fever flood into Canada. Lewis's son Luke volunteers in the sheds where he finds a similar green ribbon on another lifeless body. Together he and Thaddeus uncover a tale of vengeance that began in Ireland and plays out against the tragedy of starvation and disease.