Time and Place

Rosedale, Toronto, in the autumn of 1951; Vancouver at the end of the summer of 1983; and a boys's washroom in a contemporary Ottawa high school for one hour during a lockdown.Flavia de Luce novels are young-adult mysteries by virtue of their protagonist as well as their family-friendly content, but they are marketed to adult audiences and have an appeal to those who have lived through the era they depict or those who are interested in period-piece mysteries.In Shooter, the mystery actually occurs in real time outside the room with those trapped inside trying to figure out what is happening in the rest of the school and what, if anything, they can do to solve the crisis.