Crime and mystery fiction
As We Forgive Others
On a cold December day in a northern countryside, a strange woman appears on the doorstep of the farmhouse Hugh Mercer is renting, warning him that a local named Elizabeth Goode is about to vanish under ...
False Bodies
A genre-bending noir, and perhaps the squiddiest novel ever written, False Bodies creates a horror/thriller blend of the renowned Newfoundland culture seen in shows like Come From Away with the heart-pounding ...
Pet, Pet, Slap
Rocky meets Elmore Leonard meets Miranda July as Pillow Wilson, a past-his-prime boxer, trains for his last title shot. Shenanigans ensue.
Boxer ‘Pillow Fist’ Pete Wilson should be preparing for ...
Call of the Void
Now a fully-fledged private investigator, Sloane Donovan is bored by her latest task of keeping a debauched starlet alive and out of the headlines as she films a movie in Vancouver. When she and her partner ...
Cat Looked Back, The
Housekeeper Prudence Crick expects a peaceful month by the river housesitting at The Maples, her employer Gerry Coneybear's beautiful old home. (And cat-sitting Gerry's twenty cats, too!) But instead ...
Sing a Song of Summer
It's a hot dry summer and a pall of smoke from the forest fires drifts over the lakeshore. Still, tourists and cottagers flock to Cullen Village, including the Borthwicks, who own Hazeldean, a treasured ...
Cold Mourning
When murder stalks a family over Christmas, Detective Kala Stonechild trusts her intuition to get results.
“Sneaks up on you with its grit and promise.” — National Post
It’s a week before Christmas ...
Beneath the Willows
The Wright family was sharecropping in Alcott, New York. After years of plowing fields and hanging tobacco, they had an opportunity to own a small farm in southern Ontario. Beth, their only daughter, ...
Four for Fogo Island
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The Crooked Knife
Distraught by the murder of a popular teacher on a First Nations reserve in Labrador, Constable Nell Munro battles deception and prejudice in this gripping "Canadian northern noir".