Winnipeg Free Press

The Great Lunenburglary got a fantastic review from the Winnipeg Free Press.

"Bryn Pottie’s The Great Lunenburglary has more laughs per square inch than most crime novels.

Set in a cheerfully anachronistic version of Nova Scotia in the early 1920s, it tells the story of a plot to “borrow” the world-famous Bluenose schooner that goes spectacularly, and hilariously, wrong. The novel is set mostly in and around Lunenburg, but familiarity with the area is not required. Much of the humour comes from the characters and from clever wordplay; it works even if you’ve never set foot in the Maritimes.

Let’s face it: Pottie isn’t exactly being historically accurate here. There was never actually a “thrash fiddle” band in 1922 called Jigtallica (hit song: Nothing Else Mackerel); Beep, a local drink, makes a brief appearance, but wasn’t actually created until forty-some years later; and there never was a radio show called Wharton’s Menstrual Powder Presents: Rita MacMurphy’s Down Home Kitchen Party.

It’s a goofy, joyfully anachronistic, wildly inventive, gut-shakingly funny novel."