It's Only a Broken Heart

Lisa M. Rohlmann is a former business owner in Shelburne, Ontario.

Paul Vasey is an award-winning writer, a journalist, and the host of
CBC’s popular Morning Watch. This fast-paced murder mystery plays
itself out in one of the Ontario–U.S. border cities. Murder cases are
running as high as the pollution: someone is killing the city’s
prostitutes. Are the pimps and drug lords warring with each other? With
dogged determination and the nose of a rat-smelling terrier, newspaper
reporter Jonathan Hunter snoops around, all the while coping with the
strain of living apart from his wife and two children, and being ordered
by his girlfriend to pack his bags and leave. Hunter’s investigations
lead him to the parental house of the latest murder victim, 17-year-old
Carole Tippet. He learns about Carole’s horrific past (her heart and
soul were broken even before she hit the streets) and in the end avenges
her untimely death. This never-a-dull-moment story abounds with humor
and thought-provoking observations about life in a small city.