"Treading Darkness", by Lyle Nicholson

Detective Bernadette Callahan Mystery book # .25

This is a short and sweet mystery and a great introduction Mr. Nicholson provided to hook us. I rarely am interested in books advertised on Facebook but this offer of free sample picked my curiosity so I researched the offer and went for it. I do not regret my choice.

Set in a Western Canada this story of only 47 pages offers us an intense mystery to capture our interest in the lead character: Royal Canadian Mounted Police Corporal Bernadette Callahan. This is one day in her life before she became a Detective in the Serious Crime Division and what a day it was. It started with routine chase of a stolen car where the suspect escapes into in abandoned mine. Her duty is to catch him even if she is afraid of the dark.

Before she moved to the new division Bernadette was struggling with a sexist superior. She eventually dealt with it in her way. In his story Mr. Nicholson wanted to highlight the claim of sexual harassment in the RCMP force and Bernadette is his emissary and a good one at that.

Well-done