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""A fast-paced, always arresting historical mystery, Dwayne Brenna's The Laundryman pits two Mounties as mismatched as Holmes and Watson against an array of murder suspects in pre-provincial Prince Albert during a numbingly cold winter, with a bit of love, a hint of sex, a lot of suspense--and even a dog.""--Dave Margoshes, author of A Simple Carpenter ""Dwayne Brenna's The Laundryman is a hard one to put down, a classic murder mystery that is nothing like any whodunit I've ever read. His setting (late 19th century, Northern Saskatchewan), his characters (cops, good women, greedy bastards, Indigenous hunters, and hardscrabble farmers), and his plot are painstakingly woven together. If, like me, you begin to miss Brennna's authentic world, the only remedy is to read The Laundryman one more time.""--David Carpenter, author of The Education of Angie Merasty ""In The Laundryman, a young surgeon, Virgil Montgomery, fleeing his own past, finds himself involved in stressful adventures with the North West Mounted Police, his life often complicated by his investigating partner, the morose and crusty Corporal Belvedere, who too often doses himself with laudanum because of an old war wound. In the fall of 1883, the two men are dispatched to Prince Albert to investigate a murder. Dwayne Brenna knows his characters well, their strengths and weaknesses, and creates a compelling narrative as they struggle to solve a series of crimes in the turbulent North West. This is a novel touched by the spirit of an engrossing era, and it's a pleasure to read.""--Robert Currie, author of Living with the Hawk

""A fast-paced, always arresting historical mystery, Dwayne Brenna's The Laundryman pits two Mounties as mismatched as Holmes and Watson against an array of murder suspects in pre-provincial Prince Albert during a numbingly cold winter, with a bit of love, a hint of sex, a lot of suspense-and even a dog.""-Dave Margoshes, author of A Simple Carpenter ""Dwayne Brenna's The Laundryman is a hard one to put down, a classic murder mystery that is nothing like any whodunit I've ever read. His setting (late 19th century, Northern Saskatchewan), his characters (cops, good women, greedy bastards, Indigenous hunters, and hardscrabble farmers), and his plot are painstakingly woven together. If, like me, you begin to miss Brennna's authentic world, the only remedy is to read The Laundryman one more time.""-David Carpenter, author of The Education of Angie Merasty ""In The Laundryman, a young surgeon, Virgil Montgomery, fleeing his own past, finds himself involved in stressful adventures with the North West Mounted Police, his life often complicated by his investigating partner, the morose and crusty Corporal Belvedere, who too often doses himself with laudanum because of an old war wound. In the fall of 1883, the two men are dispatched to Prince Albert to investigate a murder. Dwayne Brenna knows his characters well, their strengths and weaknesses, and creates a compelling narrative as they struggle to solve a series of crimes in the turbulent North West. This is a novel touched by the spirit of an engrossing era, and it's a pleasure to read.""-Robert Currie, author of Living with the Hawk

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Dwayne Brenna is the award-winning author of several books of humour, poetry, and fiction. Coteau Books published his popular series of humorous vignettes entitled Eddie Gustafson's Guide to Christmas in 2000. His two books of poetry, Stealing Home and Give My Love to Rose, were published by Hagios Press in 2012 and 2015 respectively. Stealing Home, a poetic celebration of the game of baseball, was subsequently shortlisted for several Saskatchewan Book Awards, including the University of Regina Book of the Year Award. His first novel, New Albion, about a laudanum-addicted playwright struggling to survive in London's East End during the winter of 1850-51, was published by Coteau Books in autumn 2016. New Albion won the 2017 Muslims for Peace and Justice Fiction Award at the Saskatchewan Book Awards. It was also one of three English-language novels shortlisted for the prestigious MM Bennetts Award for historical fiction. His baseball novel Long Way Home was published by Pocol Press in 2022, and his theatre history text Nights That Shook the Stage (McFarland Books) came out in the spring of 2023. His short story collection Theories of Everything was published by Shadowpaw Press iin 2025. His short stories and poems have been published in an array of journals, including Grain, Nine, Spitball, The Antigonish Review, Intima, and The Cold Mountain Review.

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