He is the award-winning author of the best-selling Sgt. Windflower Mystery series, set in beautiful Grand Bank. There are now 17 books in this light mystery series with the publication of A Change in Plans.
A Tangled Web was shortlisted in 2017 for the best light mystery of the year, and Darkest Before the Dawn won the 2019 Bony Blithe Light Mystery Award. All That Glitters was shortlisted for the LOLA 2024 Must Read Book of the year award.
Some Sgt. Windflower Mysteries are now available as audiobooks and the latest Darkest Before the Dawn was released as an audiobook in 2024. All audiobooks are available from Audible in Canada and around the world.
Mike is Past Chair of the Board of Crime Writers of Canada, a national organization promoting Canadian crime and mystery writers and a member of the Newfoundland Writers’ Guild and Capital Crime Writers.
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I am so excited about your new book, A Change in Plans. Why did you choose this particular story to write?
Can you give us a book blurb so others will know what it’s about?
RCMP officer Winston Windflower’s rare afternoon off gets interrupted when a hit and run turns into murder and he must pull together a team of Mounties from Newfoundland to resolve the crime. Following the money and fentanyl— and bodies—Windflower and his team join forces with police officers in southern Ontario to take down an international drug-smuggling ring.
Windflower must face personal doubts and fears when fellow Mountie Fil Romano is kidnapped. While the higher-ups at HQ make plans to give safe passage to the drug lords in return for Romano’s life, Windflower worries Romano will get caught in the crossfire. Windflower again looks to his friends and allies for help in the difficult hours and days ahead.
Can you tell us a little about the main characters in your book?
Sgt. Winston Windflower is a police officer with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Mounties. He is also a Cree from Northern Alberta who gets stationed in the small town of Grand Bank where he falls in love with the place. His wife is Sheila who is the former Mayor of the town and he has two great friends, Eddie Tizzard, a fellow Mountie and Herb Stoodley, a former Crown Attorney
Where and when does this book take place?
A Change in Plans is set in Grand Bank, Newfoundland, on the easternmost tip of Canada. It is small, fairly isolated with a history of rum running during prohibition and the love of smuggling runs deep. It is the perfect location for a series of mysterious crimes and adventures.
They say all books of fiction have at least one pivotal point where the reader just can’t put the book down. What is one of the pivotal points in one of your books in this series?
There’s a lot of action in the book, but the climax may be when the parties involved arrive at a small airport in the relative middle of nowhere with a police officer taken as hostage.
Does your book carry a message?
Probably to keep your friends close and your enemies closer
What's your next project?
Book 18 in the Sgt. Windflower Mystery series is in the works and will be released in 2027.
Where can we pick up copies of 'A Change in Plans'?
A Change in Plans is available from Amazon, all over the world.
Is there anything you'd like to tell your readers and fans?
Thank you for your on-going support. Without readers, there would be no writers.
