A Cold White Sun

<p><br><p>Hannah Manning is a foreign correspondent in Afghanistan for a major Canadian newspaper when an IED causes her traumatic brain injury, also killing her photographer lover and causing her to miscarry their child. Unable to live independently months later, with disabling headaches among her limitations, she's recuperating on her sister's family farm in Prince Edward County, Ontario. Here she befriends Hila, an Afghan woman disfigured when the rest of her family was assassinated, who is now staying with neighbors who have retired from the foreign service. When Hila disappears and is found murdered, Hannah finds herself a suspect--she's been suffering from blackouts and has no alibi. Meanwhile, she learns about the family farm's history and senses a connection to one of its eighteenth-century residents. Delany, author of the Constable Molly Smith series, blends current events with the stories of American loyalists who were relocated to Canada after the Revolution, adding a touch of the supernatural. The contemporary mystery works fine, but the history angle seems forced and overloads the plot. - Boolist, More Than Sorrow <br> War correspondent Hannah Manning is fighting to recover from a severe brain injury while staying with her sister's family on their Ontario farm. Hannah feels useless; she sleeps, she has terrifying visions, and most problematic, she suffers from long blackouts. Her niece, however, adores her and introduces Hannah to their neighbor, Hila, an Afghani refugee who is being sponsored by a local couple. When Hila disappears and her corpse is found in the woods days later, Hannah becomes a person of interest. Military intelligence is brought in for interrogations, and Hannah knows in her gut that something sinister is at work. Concurrently, Hannah channels visions of a ghostly woman whenever she goes into her family's root cellar; this story goes back into the late 1700s, when American colonists loyal to the British crown fled the newly establi