The Way the Crow Flies

The story revolves around a fictionalized version of the death of Lynne Harper, and the subsequent murder trial of Steven Truscott.

The novel is set in the early 1960s predominantly at the Royal Canadian Air Force Station Centralia located in a small town near London, Ontario.

In the story, the character Ricky Froelich, a Métis foster child, is the fictionalized version of Steven Truscott.

In The Guardian, Aida Edemariam wrote that "the novel is a thriller, too, as tightly wrought and formal as a Hitchcock storyboard, all the way to the sudden vertiginous surprise at the end".

[4] Drainie wrote that, while "the first three-quarters of The Way the Crow Flies are solid and captivating, the final quarter [is] a somewhat disappointing and navel-gazing denouement".