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  • The Iron Pig

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    The last of the old breed, he works the street, part of a broken justice system he no longer trusts or believes in. He struggles to understand the new generation of street soldiers, and rails against the way technology has stripped the job of its...


  • 45's & A Trench Coat

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    Set in the seaside town of White Rock, B.C., Private Investigator Jackson Cole may be a nostalgia buff, but he’ll be the first to tell you that not everything is better when it’s older: the trail of accountant William Moore has certainly not...


  • The Chase

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    What if Anna was in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease? Or, were the nightmares simply the result of emotional and physical fatigue from juggling a demanding career, long-distance relationship with her adult children, and helping the family...


  • Topology of Sexy Shoes

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    A middle-aged mathematician meets a mysterious Gypsy in a bar. A nutty math whiz disappears from his home, leaving behind his cellphone and a series of cryptic notes. A jilted sessional lecturer flounders for solid ground—no small feat now that...


  • Butcher's Block

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    “Blessed” with a near photographic memory, Arlo Becker has been called a lot of things over the course of a long and successful career, not all of them fit to print. The heaviest mantle, however, has always been “Butcher,” a decades-old moniker...


  • Maniac

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    In a quiet town in Ontario, a grisly murder rocks the community to its core. And sitting at the centre of the violence is the killer—Jacob Dorrit. Dorrit willingly turns himself in. But why? When Detectives Steve Warner and his partner, Mark...


  • Avignon

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    William was a physically powerful man, but he was something more than physically strong. There was a strength of character that just seemed to exude from him. He was a good man. Alexandre wasn’t able to think of anyone he had ever met that...


  • You Can Never Go Back

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    Troubled by the way his last case ended, Private Investigator Joe Parrott wonders if he’s on the right path. Then, during a wintry storm, a strange, unexplainable noise shakes him to his core—and from that moment on, nothing seems the same....


  • The Law of Parsimony

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    From rookie beat cop patrolling Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside to rising through the ranks as a homicide detective, Mike St. James has gone from rubbing elbows with the desperately addicted to chasing professional killers, and taking on the city’s...


  • Remember, You Must Die.

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    Tim Scott, funeral director of the sunny (if slightly off-kilter) community of Swinging Palms, Florida, is used to the ebb and flow of local mortality. So when the death rate suddenly plummets, Tim notices. And when it suddenly surges, he really...