Fiction, Mystery & Detective
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Topology of Sexy Shoes
by Erik Talvila
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...
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Butcher's Block
by J.D. Langlois
“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...
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The Chase
by Marianne Perry
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...
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Maniac
by James P. Doyle
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...
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Avignon
by Mitchell J. Mueck
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...
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You Can Never Go Back
by Alyssa Hall
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....
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The Law of Parsimony
by Michael Porteous
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...
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Remember, You Must Die.
by p.w. jones
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...
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A Beacon in the Mist
A Novel by Robert J. Daley
Obsession cuts both ways. Dr. Liam O’Keefe is a top surgeon in Washington, D.C., a master of control in the operating room. At home, it’s a different story. With three young children and a wife, Sara, who feels her career as an investigative...
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Without Conviction
by J.T. Brown
Abbottsville, at its surface, is a charming border-town on land never meant to be settled. It’s land that some say is cursed, but that many others have made a suspiciously lucrative living; at a cost that is often unchallenged by its citizens....
