A Sea Lion Called Salena by Dale Campbell Gaetz

She happily moved to 'Stories Beach' at Campbell River where she says she can 'ski all morning, go kayaking in the afternoon and spend the evening writing.'ĭisappearing Act (Orca, 2015) $9.95 9781459808225 From January of 1999 to November of 2001, Gaetz was Arts and Entertainment columnist and a weekly contributing writer to The Barnacle, Salt Spring Island Journal. After Leena agrees to investigate, aided by some on-line courses in criminology, Georgia's husband, Mark, is murdered.Īs a freelance writer, Gaetz writes profiles, news stories and in-depth articles for magazines and newspapers. Three years later her sister has asked for her help because Georgia believes her husband is going to try and kill her-rather than go through with a divorce. In Alberta Alibi, Sheila travels to Triple W Ranch in southern Alberta for a reunion with her father only to discover he's in trouble with the law and he has disappeared.Īfter Dayle Campbell Gaetz' 2013 novel, Taking the Reins, won a Moonbeam Gold Award for historical fiction, she followed it with the first in her projected Rapid Reads series about a rookie private investigator, Leena O'Neil, who, at age twenty, decided she definitely didn't want to follow in the footsteps of her mother and her older sister Georgia and become a lawyer. More recently she has produced a series of teen adventure novels that feature a trio of youthful detectives, Sheila, Rusty and Katie. Her writing career was launched in 1986 with a picture book. Tel and in 1981 moved to Salt Spring Island with her husband and two young children. Dayle Campbell Gaetz grew up in Victoria and graduated from UVic.

A Sea Lion Called Salena by Dale Campbell Gaetz