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August 2020

A Garden of Thieves coverage in BC Booklook

Coverage of A Garden of Thieves in BC Booklook Magazine

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Dean Unger has self-published Garden of Thieves (Village Lane Press $17.99) and Blessed Be The Bones (Village Lane Press $17.99) to tell a murder mystery tale inspired by events on Texada Island and in Victoria between 1861 and 1872. He says it has taken him twenty-five years to uncover the details of a land grab that was partially orchestrated by Amor de Cosmos—the subject for the province’s first Royal Commission.

Book Review for A Garden of Thieves, in ABC Bookworld Magazine

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While advocating union with the rest of Canada, de Cosmos was a notorious bigot but not a dyed-in-the-wool British chauvinist. “I would not object to a little revolution now and again in British Columbia, after Confederation, if we were treated unfairly,” he said in 1870, “for I am one of those who believe that political hatreds attest the vitality of a State.”