Speak for the Dead

Amy Tector was born and raised in the rolling hills of Quebec’s Eastern Townships. She has worked in archives for the past twenty years and has found some pretty amazing things, including lost letters, mysterious notes, and even a whale’s ear. Amy spent many years as an expat, living in Brussels and in The Hague, where she worked for the International Criminal Tribunal for War Crimes in Yugoslavia. She lives in Ottawa, Canada, with her daughter, dog, and husband.

“Richly drawn characters, delicious twist and turns, and a propulsive plot that will keep you turning pages . . . Speak for the Dead is the must-read second installment in Tector’s engaging Dominion Archives Mystery series.” —Bianca Marais, author of Hum If You Don’t Know the Words“[A] strong sequel to 2022’s The Foulest Things . . . Tector smoothly balances her lead’s struggles with alcohol in the wake of her brother’s death with developments in this well-crafted mystery. Temperance Brennan fans will be pleased.” —Publishers Weekly“Speak for the Dead offers a rich, textured setting dotted with instantly familiar characters, carefully unspooling a tightly-wound mystery. I love being in the hands of a confident writer, and Amy Tector knows exactly where this story is going and how to get there, teasing out details and wrinkles with precision timing. Our protagonist is as flawed as they come, yet so persistent in her pursuit of the truth we end up rooting for her to solve the case in spite of her pain, or perhaps because of it.” —Jeremy Scott, author of When the Corn is Waist High and creator of CinemaSins“With its intricately layered plot and fiercely dogged protagonist, Speak for the Dead is the perfect book to curl up with on a long winter’s night. Louise Penny fans will devour Amy Tector’s creepy and intricately-crafted new novel.” —Katie Tallo, award-winning screenwriter and bestselling author of Dark August“Military secrets, explosive artifacts, and hard liquor make the perfect combination in this captivating mystery.” —Carolyne Topdijan, author of The Hitman’s Daughter“Told with Tector’s superb eye for detail and her rare ability to convey humor, Speak for the Dead is a perfect read for fans of Kathy Reichs’s protagonist Temperance Brennan—and for everyone else!” —Daco Auffenorde, award-winning author of Cover Your Tracks“Amy Tector’s Speak for the Dead is a complex, intricate whodunit with rich characters that never lets up. Cate Spencer, the maverick coroner with a hypnotic prickly, self-destructive bent, will both exasperate and charm you with her vulnerability and sharp edges. These are tempered by her humanity and an unrelenting pursuit of truth and justice for the dead. Thankfully, we can look forward to more in this series.” —Wayne Ng, award-winning author of Letters from Johnny