editio sanctus Martinus, Combermere, ON, 2009, 1^st.  ISBN 978-1-896442-27-3.  Trade soft cover, 305 pages.  Very good plus; tight binding, very light edge and cover wear; interior clean and unmarked; possibly an unread copy.  ‘For eight days each November, a quiet and unassuming spinster visits a cemetery and prays for the souls of those who have died in the past year.  Returning to her apartment over a bowling alley, she writes down everything she knows about lives lived, whether good or bad.  In so doing, she lays bare the soul of a small, Ontario town.  Everyone is here – a tough-as-nails proprietress who has turned her restaurant into a shrine for her dead son; a politically correct councilor who used “easements” as a weapon to wield power; a drug-dealing widow-robber murdered with the help of a woman waiting for years to settle an old score.’ (from rear wrap)