The Literate Kitty

Snow… a wall of white, as far as the eye can see. A small mining colony at the very top of the world (far northeastern Quebec, so near enough the “top”, at any rate)—the imposing end of which is built to look like nothing so much as one massive, continuous wall (though whether to keep those northern winds and more snow out , or to keep its inhabitants within , would be hard to say). All the usual gossip, grievances, and carrying on between those who live there (willingly or not, as the case may be) year-round, and the “fly-in-fly-outs” who stay for couple-month work stints, then return to wherever it is from which they came, are on full display.   Oh, and a murder… something which never happens in a town that can’t even boast of having any elderly people within its walls (so also, virtually no deaths ). Thus begins La Faille , or—as you may have already sussed— The Wall , in English. _______________ When her boss tells her she’s headed to the middle of nowhere to take over a...