The Light-Fingered Gang

Finalist, Saskatchewan Book Awards

It's Saskatoon in the year 1912. Mackenzie Davis can't figure out what's going on. Even his dad, a reporter for the Daily Phoenix, is baffled. A car smashed a jewelry store window and thousands of dollars worth of gems went missing. Pickpockets lurk in alleys.

Mack and his friend Albert spend their days roaming the fast-growing city and they see a lot of things amiss. Some people like to blame everything on the Galician immigrants, but Mack wants to find the real culprits.

With the help of a mysterious Chinese boy in a city laundry, Mackenzie begins to work things out.

Rich dialect, character and imagery. Glaze... brings to life the fast-growing city...” The Business, Writers Guild of Alberta