Joan Anderson is thirty-four years old and a graduate of the University of Toronto. She lives in Toronto’s Kensington Market. This Old Body is her first novel. The basement is not included in the scope of this biography.
When renovation expert Marissa Hamilton leaves behind a failed marriage, a cheating husband, and a tanked TV show, she arrives in Toronto with a fresh start, a tight production schedule, and one underwhelming ranch house to transform into a mansion. Her new solo series, Marissa’s Mansions, should be the career reset she’s meticulously planned for. Then her ex-husband breaks into her house in the middle of the night, and everything goes sideways.
What follows is less a crime novel than a study in applied project management.