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Murder Rides a Gale Force Wind
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Yvonne Maximchuk is still exploring the Broughton Archipelago in her sixteen foot speedboat, ‘SeaRose’ from her off-grid home on Gilford Island, still learning the secret world of islands and inlets from which she draws her inspiration.
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She is a life-long working artist in acrylic, watercolour, drawing media and clay. She is the author of a memoir, Drawn To Sea (Caitlin Press, 2013), colouring book, Colour the British Columbia Coast, (Harbour Publishing 2016) and co-author with Bill Proctor of coastal classics Full Moon Flood Tide (2003) and Tide Rips and Back Eddies (2015, both by Harbour Publishing)
‘Murder Rides A Gale Force Wind’ is Yvonne’s first novel.