The Hollow Woman / Simon Ritchie

When his wife and retarded 30-year-old son are kidnapped, a wealthy Toronto industrialist unhesitatingly pays the huge ransom, but their horribly burned bodies are discovered a few days later. This sets John Kenneth Galbraith Jantarro, the one-armed detective the wealthy indus trialist had hired to find his missing fam ily, to wandering through Toronto searching for their murderers. “”Wander ing” because, for much of the novel, Jan tarro is recovering from a severe concus sion suffered during his investigations and must strain to piece together what he knows and remembers.