In Scotiabank Giller Prize–longlisted author Andrée A. Michaud’s genre-defying, ethereal mystery, a writer encounters her double and must grapple with an undetermined crime — and her own identity.In the dubious sanctuary of a wintry forest, a writer encounters a woman who she suspects may be her double. So begins a journey of inquiry in which nothing, not even the author’s own identity, is certain. Who is Heather Thorne? Is she a stranger dangerously out of place in the woods, the victim of an accident or of a crime? Who is the author? Is her own name not in fact Heather Thorne?Brimming with the snowy menace and mystery of the boreal woods, where nothing is ever entirely known, the celebrated and prize-winning Quebec noir novelist Andrée A. Michaud once again defies categorization in an ethereal story that is also a meditation on the very process of literary creation.

Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction 2014Winner of the Prix des Lecteurs at the Quais du Polar for Best French Crime Novel 2017Winner of the Prix du Conseil des Arts and des Lettres de Quebec for Book of the Year 2015Winner of the Prix Saint-Pacôme for Best Crime Novel 2014Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize 2017 A chilling thriller as compulsive as Emma Cline's The Girls.A chilling thriller as compulsive as Emma Cline's The Girls.It's the Summer of 1967. The sun shines brightly over Boundary lake, a holiday haven on the US-Canadian border. Families relax in the heat, happy and carefree. Hours tick away to the sound of radios playing 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' and 'A Whiter Shade of Pale'. Children run along the beach as the heady smell of barbecues fills the air. Zaza Mulligan and Sissy Morgan, with their long, tanned legs and silky hair, relish their growing reputation as the red and blond Lolitas. Life seems idyllic.But then Zaza disappears, and the skies begin to cloud over...(Originally published in the UK in hardback and trade paperback as Boundary)

**Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction 2014Winner of the Prix des Lecteurs at the Quais du Polar for Best French Crime Novel 2017Winner of the Prix du Conseil des Arts and des Lettres de Quebec for Book of the Year 2015Winner of the Prix Saint-Pacôme for Best Crime Novel 2014Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize 2017A chilling thriller as compulsive as Emma Cline's The Girls.It's the Summer of 1967. The sun shines brightly over Boundary lake, a holiday haven on the US-Canadian border. Families relax in the heat, happy and carefree. Hours tick away to the sound of radios playing 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' and 'A Whiter Shade of Pale'. Children run along the beach as the heady smell of barbecues fills the air. Zaza Mulligan and Sissy Morgan, with their long, tanned legs and silky hair, relish their growing reputation as the red and blond Lolitas. Life seems idyllic.But then Zaza disappears, and the skies begin to cloud over...(Originally published in the UK in hardback and trade paperback as Boundary)

Été 67. Le soleil brille sur Boundary Pond, un lac frontalier rebaptisé Bondrée par Pierre Landry, un trappeur dont le souvenir ne sera bientôt plus que légende. Le temps est au rire et à l’insouciance. Sissy et Zaza dansent le hula hoop sur le sable chaud, les enfants courent sur la plage et la radio grésille les succès de l’heure. On croit presque au bonheur, puis les pièges de Landry ressurgissent de la terre, et Zaza disparaît, et le ciel s’ennuage. Prix littéraire du Gouverneur général Prix Saint-Pacôme du roman policier Prix du CALQ – Œuvre de l’année en EstriePrix Arthur-Ellis du roman policier en langue françaisePrix des lecteurs Quais du polar / 20 minutes Deux fois lauréate du Prix littéraire du Gouverneur général (Le Ravissement, 2001, Bondrée, 2014) et récipiendaire du prix Ringuet en 2006 pour Mirror Lake (adapté au cinéma), Andrée A. Michaud construit une œuvre éminemment personnelle qui ne cesse de susciter les éloges de la critique et des lecteurs avides de mystère.

In Scotiabank Giller Prize–longlisted author Andrée A. Michaud’s genre-defying, ethereal mystery, a writer encounters her double and must grapple with an undetermined crime — and her own identity.In the dubious sanctuary of a wintry forest, a writer encounters a woman who she suspects may be her double. So begins a journey of inquiry in which nothing, not even the author’s own identity, is certain. Who is Heather Thorne? Is she a stranger dangerously out of place in the woods, the victim of an accident or of a crime? Who is the author? Is her own name not in fact Heather Thorne?Brimming with the snowy menace and mystery of the boreal woods, where nothing is ever entirely known, the celebrated and prize-winning Quebec noir novelist Andrée A. Michaud once again defies categorization in an ethereal story that is also a meditation on the very process of literary creation.

Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction 2014Winner of the Prix des Lecteurs at the Quais du Polar for Best French Crime Novel 2017Winner of the Prix du Conseil des Arts and des Lettres de Quebec for Book of the Year 2015Winner of the Prix Saint-Pacôme for Best Crime Novel 2014Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize 2017 A chilling thriller as compulsive as Emma Cline's The Girls.A chilling thriller as compulsive as Emma Cline's The Girls.It's the Summer of 1967. The sun shines brightly over Boundary lake, a holiday haven on the US-Canadian border. Families relax in the heat, happy and carefree. Hours tick away to the sound of radios playing 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' and 'A Whiter Shade of Pale'. Children run along the beach as the heady smell of barbecues fills the air. Zaza Mulligan and Sissy Morgan, with their long, tanned legs and silky hair, relish their growing reputation as the red and blond Lolitas. Life seems idyllic.But then Zaza disappears, and the skies begin to cloud over...(Originally published in the UK in hardback and trade paperback as Boundary)

**Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction 2014Winner of the Prix des Lecteurs at the Quais du Polar for Best French Crime Novel 2017Winner of the Prix du Conseil des Arts and des Lettres de Quebec for Book of the Year 2015Winner of the Prix Saint-Pacôme for Best Crime Novel 2014Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize 2017A chilling thriller as compulsive as Emma Cline's The Girls.It's the Summer of 1967. The sun shines brightly over Boundary lake, a holiday haven on the US-Canadian border. Families relax in the heat, happy and carefree. Hours tick away to the sound of radios playing 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' and 'A Whiter Shade of Pale'. Children run along the beach as the heady smell of barbecues fills the air. Zaza Mulligan and Sissy Morgan, with their long, tanned legs and silky hair, relish their growing reputation as the red and blond Lolitas. Life seems idyllic.But then Zaza disappears, and the skies begin to cloud over...(Originally published in the UK in hardback and trade paperback as Boundary)

Été 67. Le soleil brille sur Boundary Pond, un lac frontalier rebaptisé Bondrée par Pierre Landry, un trappeur dont le souvenir ne sera bientôt plus que légende. Le temps est au rire et à l’insouciance. Sissy et Zaza dansent le hula hoop sur le sable chaud, les enfants courent sur la plage et la radio grésille les succès de l’heure. On croit presque au bonheur, puis les pièges de Landry ressurgissent de la terre, et Zaza disparaît, et le ciel s’ennuage. Prix littéraire du Gouverneur général Prix Saint-Pacôme du roman policier Prix du CALQ – Œuvre de l’année en EstriePrix Arthur-Ellis du roman policier en langue françaisePrix des lecteurs Quais du polar / 20 minutes Deux fois lauréate du Prix littéraire du Gouverneur général (Le Ravissement, 2001, Bondrée, 2014) et récipiendaire du prix Ringuet en 2006 pour Mirror Lake (adapté au cinéma), Andrée A. Michaud construit une œuvre éminemment personnelle qui ne cesse de susciter les éloges de la critique et des lecteurs avides de mystère.