You can change your name, but you cannot change the past.
That’s the premise behind Wellington author Ivanka Fear’s Blue Water mystery series, in which her intrepid investigator Svjetlana Babic encounters multiple murders in lightly fictionalized Ontario locations. Part of a planned five-book saga she’s been working on since 2023, Fear’s fourth adventure Deep and Deadly Secrets is due out on June 30.
“She keeps in mind that everything that happens to her, there’s that past that is a threat to her, so she’s always worried it will catch up again,” she told the Observer.