The Faithful
Don Macdonald
September 2026
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A Hutterite is murdered and two worlds collide
When a young Hutterite man is found murdered in a luxurioushome in the city, Detective Michael Shelter is pulled into a case like none other. To find the killer, Shelter must win the trust of arural Hutterite colony where the faithful live apart from outside world, following a devout way of life passed down for 500 years.
How could a leader of a strictly pacifist farming community end up murdered in an expensive rental? Does the answer lie in the city? Is it linked to a bitter land dispute that’s entangled the Hutterites? Or is the killer hiding among the members of the colony itself?
Struggling to solve this baffling case, Shelter must also contendwith a crumbling relationship and the haunting aftermath of a deadly shooting. As he uncovers secrets and closes in on the killer, danger grows under the vast prairie sky.
Don Macdonald worked for over 20 years as a journalist in Winnipeg, Montreal and Quebec City. His first novel, Omand's Creek, was an Amazon bestseller that the Montreal Gazette praised as "the best Canadian crime debut in recent memory." He lives in Montreal. www.donmacdonald.ca