Speak for the Dead

The Dominion Archives Mysteries, Book 2

By: Amy Tector

Narrated by: Senn Annis

It’s a stormy summer day when Ottawa coroner Dr. Cate Spencer is called to the scene of an alleged suicide. Inside a narrow vault in the Dominion Archives’ nitrate film storage facility—kept separate from the rest of the collection due to its dangerous combustibility—officers pressure her to rule the death a suicide. When parts of the scene don’t add up and a deliberately set spark threatens her life, she suspects that this death might be a murder.

Her tough façade masks a deep compassion for the victims she examines. Whether she’s looking for answers because of her dedication to justice or to distract herself from anguish over her brother’s recent death, her inquiries plunge her into a world of military secrets, contentious Indigenous protests, and a seventy-year-old mystery with deadly implications.

Will Cate manage to pull herself away from her scotch and grief to expose an explosive historic secret and solve a murder the police doubt even exists?

©2023 Amy Tector (P)2023 Dreamscape Media

awful narrator

The story for this book in this series is better than the last. Tied together better and very interesting. character development is better too. But they need to find another narrator. She ruins these books.

Great local murder mystery

Loved ”The Foulest Things” by the same author as well as this murder mystery in the same series.