Fiction. Winner of the Manitoba Books Awards' Michael Van Rooy Award for Genre Fiction 2016 for the first novel in Charles Lauchlan Series. Reluctant amateur detective; Reverend Charles Lauchlan; departs the prairie city of Winnipeg and travels abroad to Scotland with his fiance Maggie on a bicycle tour of the highlands. The tour runs afoul when the couple discover a body on the trail; followed by two near-fatal accidents. With a shadowy figure now following their every move and far from help; Charles and Maggie; along with their policeman friend; Sergeant Andrew Setter; must figure out how these strange events fit together before something more dire befalls the group.
FIFTY WORDS FOR RAIN is the second in a three book series that began with Put on an Armour of Light (winner of the Michael Van Rooy Award for Genre Fiction). Deftly wrought; meticulously researched; and scintillating with charm and period prose; Macdonald weaves a winding; cross-country tale that will require all of the detective's ingenuity and test the measure of his resolve.