Wet Money – Kobo eBook

The rain doesn’t discriminate. The city does.

Vancouver is drowning. An atmospheric river is parked over the Lower Mainland, the storm drains have given up, and somewhere in the chaos a black hockey bag holding $2.3 million in cash has gone missing.

Jit Sandhu just wants to tow cars, pay his bills, and someday own a little hall of his own. Then his cousin Goldy asks him for one small favour, and by Wednesday night Jit is standing on a film set in Gastown, where eleven people are pointing fourteen guns at one another and nobody is entirely sure which ones are real.

Dee Okafor has spent twenty years making fake things look expensive. As a props master, she knows exactly what $2.3 million should weigh, and exactly how much trouble she’s in when the real thing turns up in her workshop.

Now everybody wants the money. Nobody wants the bag.

There’s Auntie Mei, who runs a ballroom studio above a bubble tea shop in Richmond and claims the cash is hers. There’s Chase Whitlock, a wellness entrepreneur who owes it to people who don’t do mindfulness. There’s Priscilla Dunsmore, Realtor of the Year, whose smile is on every bus bench in the city and whose plans are not. There’s a police constable with a debt problem, an outreach worker with a conscience, a biker who once planted three million trees, and two brothers from Vancouver Island who insist, loudly and to everyone, that this is all about the clams.

Over three soaking days, the bag travels from a film set to a flooded mansion in Shaughnessy, from a Surrey tow yard to a jammed highway on the North Shore, and finally onto the last ferry out of Horseshoe Bay, where a storm is rolling in across the Strait of Georgia and every person who wants that money is suddenly on the same boat.

Nobody can leave. Nobody trusts anybody. And everyone has a perfectly reasonable explanation.

Wet Money is a fast, funny, foul-mouthed comic crime novel about real estate, rain, family, and the lengths ordinary people will go to for money that was never theirs. Sharp, warm and unmistakably Vancouver, it’s a caper for anyone who has ever paid too much rent, waited too long for a ferry, or wondered what’s really inside the bag.