Fiction, Mystery & Detective
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A Plague of Death
by Grant N. Pierce
The whispers of the spectators on the street were rapidly evolving into cries of concern. The sky was alight with fire … Great globs of black ash rained down and clamped onto each tunic, each dress, covering them with black soot. Swiftly, the...
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Fair of Face
by Rosemary Hurren
Welcome to Edenvale, a small town … with big secrets. When Private Investigator Kit Kotcka arrives in Edenvale, Ontario, to look into the background of a teenage mother whose infant child recently died of starvation, an ethereal smell of smoke...
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Slam!
A Death in Custody by Kevin West
“Okay, look. Here’s what I know.” Jake paused before laying into her. “I don’t need an assistant or FIO or whatever you want to be called. Especially one fresh out of kindergarten or who was promoted because of…well, never mind.” He’d tried to...
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Malraux
Scent of the Viper by Ray Sproule
Matthew Thorne, a former Army intelligence officer fresh off an adventure in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon, is sent to Morocco in 1959 on a perilous mission. As a favor to a shadowy éminence grise named Aristide, Thorne takes on the task of...
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Restoration Games
by Bob Oliver
Gary Denson has survived and thrived by developing his own moral code—one built on stealing, cheating, and taking advantage of others at any opportunity. His sophisticated and corrupt career as a con artist has taken him from city to city across...
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Lost Village
by Michael Saver
A pair of brutal murders shatters the uneasy peace of the tiny town of Conawalki, Ontario, threatening to rip the community apart. For years, the residents have struggled to rebuild their lives and their community’s identity after the town was...
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The Boutique Hotel
A Novel by Melissa D MacKinnon
What happened in the days leading to murder at a glamourous destination wedding? The story is set against the sophisticated backdrop of Nice, France. Evie Hansen, a travel agent determined to prove her worth, attends a destination wedding at the...
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The Newfoundland Lunch Party
A Sisters of the Soil Novel With Recipes by Sonia Day
The Sisters of the Soil meet up again for fun times and good food – this time in Newfoundland – where Hannah, from the U.K., makes an extraordinary find outside Rhodo’s saltbox house by the sea. She insists it’s worth a fortune. But is she right?...
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Death at High Tide
by Jeanne Flemming
The sleepy village of St. Mark’s, on the Bay of Fundy, groans as the storm of the century roars through leaving driftwood, ripped up seaweed and a female corpse on the beach. Accident or murder? As a newcomer, Constable Laura West treads...
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Beyond Rigor Mortis
by BJ Lucknow
Ian McLintock seems to have it all. A respected physician and surgeon, he’s happily married, with one little girl and a new baby expected any day. But then, disaster strikes: after an onslaught of casualties from an explosion and an unexpected...