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Imprint: Flanker Press
Format: Paperback, 378 pages
Pub Date: July 2012
Price: $24.00
ISBN 10: 1-77117-000-X
The Badger Redemption is the third and final instalment in J. A. Ricketts’s masterpiece series that focuses on the far-reaching consequences of a small town’s actions. As with some endings, this book also serves as the beginning of something new: a legend.
Bill Hatcher’s confession has set off a chain of events that has forced the residents of Badger, Newfoundland, to re-evaluate their own lives, and to question their place in this world . . . and the next. Constable William Moss is long dead, and his is one of many spirits wandering in unrest as Ralph Drum tries to reconcile the policeman’s murder with new revelations in Ralph’s own family. Redemption is at hand for Ralph, Jennie, and thousands of others whose lives were changed when the Riot claimed a victim. They will soon learn that, in Badger, even dead men tell tales.
Let the legend begin . . .
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"Ricketts knows and loves the area, and she knows the people; her account of everyday life rings with observation and empathy."Historical Novel Review
"The decisions [the characters] make and the crisis they face are realistic and believable, whether they concern opening a business, inciting a murder, or having an affair, and, though steeped in Badger's own culture and history, are relevant (and entertaining) to the wider world. And it all unfolds in Ricketts' warm conversational style."Newfoundland Quarterly
"While the three books are best read in sequence, this latest one - and each of the others - can be read separately. By any standard, The Badger Redemption is a fine novel, which can even be enjoyed by those who don’t like novels."PEI Guardian
"Ricketts has written a wholly satisfying, wholly absorbing, final volume of a landmark trilogy."Northeast Avalon Times
"Ricketts has stitched an incredible tapestry of events and characters, through a timeline predating the strike and moving towards the modern day."The Telegram