National Bestseller

“A beautifully written and satisfying tale.”
 —Winnipeg Free Press

“There are no one-note emotions or motivations here—every feeling, impulse, is in flux, tangled and bleeding in each other, love the most complicated emotion of all.”
 —Ottawa Citizen

“Turtle Valley has all the hallmarks of the author’s previous bestsellers. . . . It zooms into the heart of rural life, with its family ties and rivalries, while ripping open the doors of family closets and letting the insecurities, eccentricities and dark secrets pour out. . . . Another suspenseful page-turner.”
 —The Vancouver Sun

“As with most celebrated fiction in this country, a sense of place is as important as the characters. . . . There is a homespun, 19th-century quality to Anderson-Dargatz’s work . . . [Anderson-Dargatz] is an authentic talent.” 
 —Calgary Herald

“Turtle Valley lives up to [Anderson-Dargatz’s] gothic reputation. . . . It’s a tense, passionate story of family and memory, haunting and history.” 
 —Vancouver Courier

“[Anderson-Dargatz] is skilled at peeling back the layers of love, commitment and confusion that most families experience.” 
 —The Globe and Mail

“Ghosts weave in and out of the smoke, decades-old passions are re-examined, life-changing options present themselves, life and loss continue, unabated. [Turtle Valley] is both haunting and haunted (as it’s both a romance-mystery and a ghost story) and it carries powerful magic all its own.” 
 —The Hamilton Spectator

“Part mystery, part memory story, part eco-conscious tale, but a rare take on illness in the context of a marriage is what makes Turtle Valley a winner. . . . Gripping.” 
 —NOW (Toronto)