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In Tony Thomson's debut novel, a college student goes missing in the Annapolis Valley. The further the police and professor Ian Wallace look, the more things turn out not to be what they had seemed.
About Face is a mix of police procedural, thriller, and social commentary, with a bit of farce and romance thrown in.
About the author
Tony Thomson was born in the Hydrostone District of Halifax and spent much of his youth on Lawrencetown Beach, where his parents had a cottage and later built a permanent home. He graduated from Graham Creighton High School and studied at Dalhousie and the University of Cambridge, where he completed a doctorate in social and political science. He enjoyed a long career teaching sociology at Acadia University, and still teaches part-time. He and his wife, Heather Frenette, worked on restoring a century home in Canning, where they raised two children, Julia and Devon. They now also enjoy their two grandchildren. In addition to articles, book chapters, and two co-authored books, Tony has written two volumes on the history of social thought, published by Oxford University Press: The Making of Social Theory: order, reason, and desire and Modern Social Thought: an introduction.About Face is his first work of fiction.
