Shadows In The Pool Of The Black Star: A Detective Gabriel O'Malley NovelWhere Sacred Geometry Meets Wartime Treason.January in Winnipeg is a sentence, not a season. At thirty-five below zero, a bitter, hunting wind strips the warmth from the limestone walls of the Manitoba Legislative Building. But inside the grand structure, the chill is trapped—along with a horrifying secret.

When Detective Gabriel O’Malley is summoned to the building’s lower rotunda at 2:00 AM, he finds a meticulously orchestrated stage of death. Sprawled dead-center on the black marble of the Pool of the Black Star lies Alistair Thorne, the powerful Minister of Strategic Resources, his neck cleanly snapped.