The Bidding

Overview

The next suspenseful chapter in the Ty Davis mysteries

In 1972, a young girl is abducted and murdered, and Montreal news reporter Ty Davis is drawn into a bizarre sequence of events when her body and those of her kidnappers are found in a 19th-century farmhouse in the Laurentian community of Saint Sauveur. Strange symbols on the floor, ancient words in a journal, and additional discoveries hint at something more than a child abduction gone wrong. Davis and his colleagues soon find themselves embroiled in a complex web of international conspiracy as their careers and lives are put in jeopardy.

Reviews

"Haugland weaves a tale of international intrigue, even while he dishes up glimpses of a bygone era of broadcast journalism. I couldn't put it down." —Lloyd Robertson, chief anchor and senior editor, CTV News with Lloyd Robertson

"It's a page-turner that transports the reader back in time, to the seedier side of a big city many of us remember only from the news." —Mutsumi Takahashi, lead news presenter, CTV, on Mobile 9

Author Biography

Bill Haugland is a former radio and television reporter and the author of Mobile 9. He lives in Highgate Springs, Vermont.