Mary Cyr

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Mary Cyr opens in Mexico, just as a disaster strikes a small town: a coal mine has collapsed, with 13 men trapped inside. Less than two days later, the authorities decide to abandon all hope of finding survivors and seal up the mine entrance willfully oblivious to the half-dozen souls still breathing below ground. Shortly after, a 13-year-old Mexican boy, Victor, is discovered dead in the hotel room of a Canadian visitor a 45-year-old woman, and heiress to a vast fortune, who goes by the name Mary Cyr.

Mary Cyrwill take the readerfrom a harsh jail cell in Mexico, where Mary Cyr is imprisoned, deep into Canadian police officer John Delano's pastand even further into the murky depths of a wealthy New Brunswick family. A familywhose ties to mining, newspapers and a host of other interests lead to the highest corridors of power. At the heart of this maelstrom lies a woman who is compromised and confused, but also poignant, wounded and well-intentioned: the beautiful and tragic Mary Cyr.(From Doubleday)

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