What happened to my mother on May 3, 1960?

Sally Tomiuk, my beautiful Ukrainian mother, died in her car in the wee hours of the morning on a lonely rail crossing, struck by an oncoming train. She was thirty-two. I was eight.

Was it suicide? Was it murder? To this day her untimely death is shrouded in mystery.

This is my journey of discovering my mother. The heroes and the villains in her life, the love and loss, the sex and immorality, the adultery and betrayal. Following her footsteps in 1950s and ’60s Montreal, I walk her path through her Ukrainian heritage, the glamour of her brief life as an hotelier, and her search for herself through the occult and divination.

This is a story of my mother and, in doing so, of finding myself.

“Roxanne Davies’ The Blue Riviera is a touching account of an archetypal search — a daughter’s search for a more complete understanding of a missing, beloved parent. This book reveals the tenderness and love that make us human. Highly recommended!”

~ Larry Dossey, MDAuthor: One Mind: Why Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters