Product Description

Dr. Rebecca Temple has just returned to practice in an old converted house in the Kensington Market area of Toronto, six months after the death of her artist husband, when she's confronted with the violent murder of a patient she had earlier diagnosed as paranoid. Sylvia Warsh's accomplished first novel explores the decades-old deceptions and plots that go back to World War Two Poland and underlie the murder of Goldie. Even as Rebecca struggles with guilt over the misdiagnosis which may have led to her patient's death, she becomes the killer's next target.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #904709 in Books
• Published on: 2000-02-01
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .74" h x 4.31" w x 7.00" l, .37 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Review

"...To Die in Spring is Torontonian Sylvia Warsh's first published mystery and it's a good deal better than the work of many veterans. It's also set up as a kickoff to a promising series featuring Dr. Rebecca Temple, a young widow recovering from the early death of her beloved artist husband.

...The novel is set in 1979, which puts it in temporal reach of the Second World War as well as the horrors of Argentina, where many Nazis and some surviving Jews fled after the war. Warsh handles fairly deftly the now-historical issues, putting them into the terms and mouths of characters who display the full range of greed and obsession required to play out her plot.

...Warsh, who teaches creative writing to seniors in Toronto, does a fine job of unwrapping mysterious identities until both sins and crimes lie satisfactorily revealed."

Joan Barfoot The London Free Press, August 19, 2000

"This first novel has a good plot and plenty of good writing." (Globe and Mail )

"Warsh does a fine job of unwrapping mysterious identities until both sins and crimes lie satisfactorily revealed." (London Free Press )

"…somehow Warsh manages to pull off the combination of of oppressed and oppressors, while adding in losses of love and life." (Edmonton Journal )

Candace Fertile, the Edmonton Journal
"Warsh manages to pull off the combination of oppressed and oppressors, while tying in losses of love and life."

From the Inside Flap
After the recent death of her artist husband, it's not all raisins and almonds in the relocated and refurbished consulting room of Dr. Rebecca Temple in downtown Toronto. There was nothing in Rebecca's past to prepare her for the headlong lethal drama that walked innocently into her waiting-room in the guise of harmless old Goldie Kochinksy. From Goldie, Dr. Temple learned, to her pain, that even paranoids have enemies. With the unrelenting pace of a jack-hammer, the suspense and horror combine to keep the pressure on full, while Argentinian heavies and a relentless murderer stop at nothing in their attempts to keep the lid on a whole Pandora's box of secrets going back to the death camps of Poland in the second World War. This is the sort of novel that sells the sequel as you turn the pages of the present most-accomplished introduction. --Howard Engel, Author of The Benny Cooperman Mysteries