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Incident at Willow Creek

by (author) Don Hunter

Publisher
NeWest Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2009
Subjects
Sagas, General, Action & Adventure
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781927063101
    Publish Date
    Jan 2009
    List Price
    $11.99

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Description

After her mother's death, Liz Thomas inherits the key to a bank lockbox containing the official government documents of Camp 10, a prisoner-of-war camp located in the sleepy town of Willow Creek, AB during World War II. As Liz desperately attempts to piece together reports on a life she never knew her mother had, she discovers a family secret so tragic that it was kept under lock-and-key for over sixty years of Canadian history.

Praise for Incident at Willow Creek
"“Within a few lines of Don Hunter’s narrative, you can see that town, that young boy, and the prairie after the rain … Don Hunter has written a very believable tale. He brings all the parts together in the story’s past, and offers an understated but poignant ending in the story’s present.”
~ Legacy Magazine

About the author

Don Hunter compiled his fictional columns in The Province about life in a Gulf Islands community for Spinner's Inlet, shortlisted for the Leacock Medal for Humour.

Hunter scripted most of the 1986 CBC Television movie 9B and the network drama mini-series 9B of January/February 1989 (five one-hour shows) based on an original story concerning a year teaching in B.C.'s north country. He grew up near the English Lake District, did his two-years national service in the British Army's 16th Independent Parachute Brigade, and taught high school in England and in British Columbia before joining the Vancouver Province newspaper as a reporter and feature writer and eventually senior columnist. He has contributed to dozens of magazines including Maclean's and Reader's Digest. He has his teacher's certificate from UBC and he has served as President of Local 115 The Newspaper Guild (1976-1977). He and his wife June have two daughters, and they live in Fort Langley, B.C. Please visit www.donhunter.ca.

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Awards

  • Short-listed, Best Book Cover / Jacket Design at the Alberta Book Publishing Awards