Company Town

Description:

"New Arcadia is a city-sized oil rig off the coast of the Canadian Maritimes, now owned by one very wealthy, powerful, byzantine family: Lynch Ltd. Hwa is of the few people in her community to forgo bio-engineered enhancements, but her expertise in the arts of self-defense and her record as a fighter mean that her services are yet in high demand. When the youngest Lynch needs training and protection, the family turns to Hwa. But can even she protect against increasingly intense death threats seemingly coming from another timeline? Meanwhile, a series of interconnected murders threatens the city's stability and heightens the unease of a rig turning over. All signs point to a nearly invisible serial killer, but all of the murders seem to lead right back to Hwa's front door. Company Town has never been the safest place to be--but now, the danger is personal" --

subjects: Serial murders,  Family corporations,  Acadians,  Offshore oil industry,  Fiction,  Energy industries,  Bioengineering,  Technological innovations,  Fiction, science fiction, general,  Fiction, science fiction, action & adventure,  Acadians -- Fiction,  Bioengineering -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Fiction,  Family corporations -- Maritime Provinces -- Fiction,  Offshore oil industry -- Maritime Provinces -- Fiction,  Energy industries -- Technological innovations -- Fiction,  Genetic engineering -- Fiction,  Imaginary places -- Fiction,  Serial murders -- Fiction,  Bioengineering -- Moral and ethical aspects,  Energy industries -- Technological innovations,  Genetic engineering,  Imaginary places,  Maritime Provinces,  Moral and ethical aspects,  Collection:Canada Reads,  Collection:Canada Reads 2017

Places: Maritime Provinces