WhiskyJack Publishing
  • Home
  • About
    • About Us
    • Our Life Here
    • First Lines-The Beardmore Relics
    • News Clips: Greenstone's Believe It or Not!
    • Q&A : Greenstone's Believe It or Not!
    • Tipping Points - GERALDTON BACK DOORS
    • The Jarheads of Goshen: Next to Last Lines
    • The Gardens of Goshen: Next to Last Lines
    • First Lines - GERALDTON BACK DOORS
    • Events
    • Blog Articles
  • Sample Chapters
    • Kennet Forbes Mysteries
    • The Chronicles of Goshen
  • Recent Titles
    • Retail Outlets
  • Book Credits
  • EJ's POSTS
  • Beardmore Viking Relics
  • Contact
    • Links
  • My Services
    • Description of Services
    • Pricing of Services

The Chronicles of Goshen Series

From north of Lake Superior in the legendary Land o’ Goshen, E.J. explores the hope and the hell in rural utopias, in big bad cities, and in the nightly newscasts.  Goshen is a mythical town in rural Canada, a platform for viewing Everyone's backyard as well as global events.  The author attributes the quirky humour, the contrarian views, and the perfectly surprising sentiments to his muse, Holy Elijah Jumping Jesus Jehosaphat! – E.J., for short.   In this series of stories and essays, E.J.’s voice is always crying, and forever laughing, in the wilderness.

VOL. 1 - The Annals of Goshen (2012)

Picture
1  Corner Gas                     
2 On the Square
3 The Tree Gods
4 What's In a Smell
5 A Mighty Good Sandwich
6 Goshen at War
7 American Penguins
8 Volunteerism
9 Down to Earth
10 The Degrees of Grouch
11 Timber Wolves
12 The Man Who Swamped for Paul
13 A Grain of Sand
14 Our Town
15 Letters From God
16 This Is Wonderland
17 Home Town
18 Friends and Family



19
Snakes and Adders
20 The Last Rose
21 Language Matters
22 Nature Is Red
23 Happiness Is
24 How Much Wood
25 Lest We Forget
26 The Secret Life
27 Pike's Peak
28 One of the Greatest
29 How the Smirk
                Stole Christmas
30 Copy This!
31 Spare That Tree
32 Follow Your Drum, Eh?
33 The Lisbon Earthquake
34 Stopping By Woods
35 Caveat Emptor
36 Where the Sidewalk Ends
Review of THE ANNALS OF GOSHEN
". . . Although Lavoie's quirky humour and social satire are the hallmarks of his style, stories such as "The Secret Life" and "Pike's Peak" demonstrate that where his writing really shines is in capturing the essence of the boreal forest and the ways in which the land has shaped its northern inhabitants."
                                                                             —  The Walleye: Thunder Bay's arts & culture alternative

VOL. 2 - The Jarheads of Goshen (2013)

Picture
1  Corner Gas II                     
2  Land o' Goshen
3  Fruit of the Vine
4  Shadow and Light
5  The First Rose
6  Grub Street Museums
7  Monuments of Sand
8  The Lord God Bird
9   A Good Kill
10  On Your Lonesome
11 Wild By Nature
12 The Yellow Peril
13 Nebuchita Mosquita
14 The Dam Consequences
15 Old Fossils
16 The Goshen Catnapper
17 Gardeners All
18 The Butterfly Effect
19 Stand of Trees
                                                            20 The True Cross




21
A Peckerhead Policy 
22 Bambi
23 Civil War Buffs
24 Charity Hurts
25 My Old House
26 My Country Is Winter
27 The Inukshuk Conspiracy
28 Bombs, Away!
29 Romancing the Stones 
30 The Wintering Place
31 The Chief Corner-Tree
32 Merry XX
33 Mr Dithers Dot Lib
34 The Mechanic
35 Wild Parrots
36 Save the Ling
37 Paddle to the Sea
38 March of the Penguins
39 Goshen's Great Whitecoat Hunt
40 Homes May Be Flat

The Kennet Forbes Mystery Series

In 2007, Kennet Forbes returns to Thunder Bay, Ontario, to take a post at the university. He  teaches journalism and media studies, a respite from the conflicts which he covered overseas as correspondent, and from the hectic world of investigative TV journalism based in Toronto.  During a stint covering the war in Afghanistan in '06, he acquired a  permanent black eye from an improvised explosive device. Along with it, he acquired a hankering for a bastion of security for the rest of his life.  He cannot ignore, however, the crimes against humanity occurring in his own backyard, the wilderness north
of Lake Superior where he grew up.

The Beardmore Relics (2011)

Picture
Kennet Forbes, teacher at Thunder Bay University, finds himself embroiled in violence, murder, and mystery.  Forbes, former high-profile newsman on national TV, volunteers to search for a colleague, an archaeologist who has gone missing in the field.  He returns
to the wilds north of Lake Superior. In the process he awakens his own demons, the ones that drove him to foreign shores, and drove him back again.


Reviews

"It talks about the geography and mining of this area, and the colourful local characters of Anytown, a close-knit community like many others.  It told the story of old,
dark secrets, of murder, romance and the thinking of keen minds. It talks about streets and businesses that exist to this day, that we can relate to . . . "

                               The Chronicle-Journal 
                                             (Thunder Bay)

"Lavoie is an experienced writer and has done a professional job with his novel. His characters are believable, his writing is tight, the plot keeps the reader riveted. It’s as good as anything of its ilk published by a
mainline publisher . . . "

                        — Elizabeth Campbell Books

Geraldton Back Doors (2013)

Picture
When a body turns up in the wilderness north of Lake Superior,
Kennet Forbes takes it personally.  Forbes, a former high-profile investigative journalist, finds himself wading through murder, violence, and drugs.  The pursuit of justice dredges up his
personal history, and threatens to mire him in doubts about mankind's capacity
for goodness.

Reviews cont'd

Lavoie can certainly weave a tale, and where the narrative pace lags or becomes tangential, it is made up for by rich description and Lavoie's vast knowledge of local history and geography.  The result is definitely satisfying and solidifies Lavoie's position as one of Northwestern Ontario's best.
 -The Walleye: Thunder Bay's arts & culture alternative

Reviews

This is a wonderful book! A mystery thriller that kept me on the edge of my seat right to the end.
  From the conflict in Sarajevo to the drug trade in northern Ontario, this story  never stops delivering the suspense and intrigue. It has action, really scary bad guys, and an Indian-Jones type of hero in former- war- correspondent-turned- University- Professor Kennet Forbes.
  Well-researched and convincing, it's a must-read for anyone who loves thrillers and/or northwestern Ontario.
                - Marianne Jones on Goodreads
A thrill ride set in quiet, dull, Northwestern Ontario with our calm
lakes, sleepy trout streams and placid sunsets?  Lavoie kicks those stereotypical images right off the pages . . . Following a placid, almost rural opening involving
horse-drawn timber harvesting, we are swept from war-torn Sarajevo, where our
narrator was a news journalist, to Montreal and the Hell's Angels and back to
Northwestern Ontario . . . And always the story is propelled forward by the business of how men relate [to] and manipulate each other.

-  The Chronicle-Journal (Thunder Bay)


Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.