Strangers Among Us

Vancouver's "Sunshine Coast" is one of Canada's famous beautyspots, but as fans of LR Wright's books know, it harbors eleventyseven versions of crazy. On offer here is the adolescent variety: Eliot Gardener is maddeningly sullen as only an angry fourteenyearold can be. He's also, apparently, a doublemurderer, having whacked both of his parents with a machete. There's little question that Eliot did the deed, but for Sergeant Karl Alberg it feels like a personal failure: The Coast is his patch, and he should have seen the trouble coming. He's getting ready to marry his longtime sweetheart, but the guilt is poisoning his joy – so much so that when a second killer seems to have Alberg in his sights, the threat feels almost justified.