Buried Secrets

by Mike Martin

Published by Ottawa Press Publishing

Design and composition: Writers First

Cover art by Hunter Martin

Author, Mike Martin, has created a singularly unique concept in The Sergeant Windflower Mystery Series by blending police procedures with Cree spiritual traditions. Buried Secrets abounds with life lessons. He has cleverly crafted an elaborately complex book wisely presenting a myriad of human foibles and the challenges faced by his protagonist, Sergeant Winston Windflower, as he interacts with those around him.

The author will invite you into the Windflower home and introduce you to Sheila, his wife and his two daughters Amelia Louise and Stella. Each of his children presents their own unique challenges.

You will share his trepidation and triumph; his anguish and his elation as he is faced with one of the most challenging crossroads of his life while struggling to solve two seemingly disconnected murders. Windflower must dig deep within himself because if that wasn’t enough to deal with, he must track down and champion a young girl, betrayed by someone sworn to protect the vulnerable.

Martin will take you on a journey vicariously through Windflower’s life. This book will teach us, through the eyes of Winston Windflower that family is a title given to those we hold dearly to our hearts. We extend it to those who come into our lives and, no matter what, through thick or thin, seem to stay. DNA is not always shared, but the feeling is undeniably there. Nothing, absolutely nothing, is more important than family.

I highly recommend this emotionally charged cosy police procedural or what I refer to as a brozy mystery.