Seeing is Deceiving (A Phoebe Fairfax mystery) - Tapa dura

is Deceiving is Suzanne North’s second Phoebe Fairfax mystery, and it more than delivers on the promise of the first. The sardonic Phoebe and Candi Sinclair, her apparently ditzy colleague at the TV program “A Day in the Lifestyle,” are back, this time in New Age territory.

Phoebe and Candi are filming at the Okotoks Psychic Fair when one of the exhibitors, the sleazy Jonathan Webster, collapses. A few hours later he is dead – poisoned (in a rather extreme way) – and the police immediately suspect his common-law wife, Tracy, of murder. The fractured bones and bruises Webster has dealt her over the years give her ample motive. Frightened, Tracy turns to her old friend Candi for help, and Candi is off sleuthing to clear Tracy’s name, dragging Phoebe along reluctantly in her wake.

Phoebe’s filmmaking efforts and her unenthusiastic crusade to prove Tracy’s innocence take her into the fantastic world of fortune-tellers and pe

Suzanne North was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, and now lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Before she began writing mysteries, she wrote for magazines, for CBC Television, and scripted a number of documentary movies. She has also worked variously as a bibliographic searcher, a waitress, a television announcer, and a professional horse player. The Phoebe Fairfax mysteries are probably the only crime novels in Canada written on a computer purchased with the author’s race-track winnings.

Suzanne North is married to arachnologist Donald Buckle and shares her home with him and thirty thousand dead spiders.