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"Legault has crafted a totally engrossing yarn about people and places he knows well, with well-drawn characters and a plot worthy of the genre." Rocky Mountain Outlook review of The Cardinal Divide
“You are good! I have just finished reading “The Cardinal Divide.” It was an absolute pager-turner. In fact one night, near the end, I had trouble getting to sleep....Your powers of description are very vivid and of course your heart is in the same place as mine in the environmental areas. You appropriately showed the complexity of the issues. I hope that your publisher promotes it. This book deserves a large audience."
Wildlife Artist and Conservationist, Robert Bateman.
"I've just finished your book...... and it's great!! I don't normally read murder mysteries at all (though I enjoy them on TV), and for the first 3 chapters, I felt no sympathy for Cole B, who's not the kind of man I'd normally hang out with (I've not drunk enough beers and chasers), but it grew on me, and there was a point about 1/3rd of the way through when my disbelief was duly suspended, and it all became "real". Now I just want to read his next adventures! Don't you dare kill him off in the 3rd book - he's got all of those ten books in him that you have up your sleeve."
Guy Dauncey, Author and Environmentalist
"I had a traveling marathon last week (DC, Boulder and Bozeman) and had lots of plane time. So I finally picked up "The Cardinal Divide" and read it. I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed it. You did a great job evoking the landscape and I could definitely picture in my mind's eye the town of Oracle...The mystery also was very well played out, and the messages about protecting the environment were subtly done. All in all I thoroughly enjoyed it. I look forward to the next instalment!"
Conservationist Wendy Francis
“[I] finished the book a while back and really enjoyed it! Once I got past the fact that I wasn’t really liking him, I totally got sucked into the story. A high energy ending as well, can’t say I’d figured it out any faster than the protagonist so that’s good. Would make a good movie, maybe Paul Gross as Cole…?”
Environmental activist and world traveler Lisa Matthaus
"Finished reading your book recently and just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed it. It just quite simply exceeded my expectations. You have a great ear for dialogue and a way of developing the characters so that they feel like real people. I also thought the story was very well plotted. It definitely held my attention for the entire read. Well done, my friend, well done!"
Matt Jackson, Author, Photographer and Publisher
Cole Blackwater’s life isn’t what it used to be. Once a political superstar within Ottawa’s environmental movement, he now runs a nearly defunct conservation strategy consulting firm which distinctly lacks a paying client. His ex-wife loathes him for a scandalous affair that ended their marriage, he feels he’s failing his eight-year-old daughter as a father, and he’s turning far too often to the bottle to solve his problems.
So when Peggy McSorlie, head of the Eastern Slopes Conservation Group, seeks his help to stop a mining project planned for Alberta’s magnificent Cardinal Divide, Blackwater jumps on the opportunity to earn enough money to pay the rent and buy a few pints at his favorite pub. But when Mike Barnes, head of the mining project, is brutally murdered and a radical member of Eastern Slopes Conservation Group is accused of killing him, Blackwater must first prove the man’s innocence in order to save his own business, and the future of the Cardinal Divide.
The Second Cole Blackwater Mystery: Environmentalist Cole Blackwater finds himself in the remote fishing village of Port Lost Coast at the funeral of his friend and native activist Archie Ravenwing, who disappeared in a violent storm in BC’s Broughton Archipelago. In helping to tie up loose ends in his friends work and life, Cole discovers that Archie was unravelling a complex plot involving provincial and local band politicians, anti-native bigots and a salmon farming company with deep pockets and its operations spreading like sea lice across the troubled Broughton. What had Archie Ravenwing discovered on his last voyage to the mysterious Humphrey Rock, and was his death really an accident, or was it murder?
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