Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths
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A Tangled Web of Deception
by Barbara Brady
High-flying forensic accountant Thomas Crawford couldn’t be happier. Having been made partner in a prestigious accounting firm in downtown Toronto, his desire to get out from under the suffocating grip of his abusive father has finally been...
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The Queen of Swords
A Tarot Card Murder Mystery by Connie L. Cook
When Jennifer’s best friend Deslyn vanishes after a date with an online stranger, her world is thrown into chaos. As a seasoned ER nurse, Jennifer thrives under pressure, but this time it’s personal—and she refuses to sit idly by. Meanwhile,...
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I Swear to God
by David Laing Dawson
What do you do when your son is arrested for murder? Sharon Gibson, a Hamilton, Ontario, Emergency Room nurse and divorced mother of Alicia (14) and Christian (17), doesn’t have things easy. Dealing with her ex-husband, juggling night shifts in...
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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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Question Everything
by Frances Schepp Ruh
On a stormy spring afternoon, middle-aged Betsy Flemming is shocked by her husband’s announcement that he’s leaving her for her best friend—a betrayal that spins her into a crisis of confidence, struggling to maintain a relationship with their...
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HR Can Be Murder
by Melanie Peacock
Tasha Martin has recently graduated from her local college and takes an HR job at a law firm in the city, leaving the comfort of her childhood home to embark on her adult life. A self avowed introvert, this brings about challenges as she...
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Murder by a Dam Site
by Ray Love
It is spring on the French River, and thoughts have turned to fishing. On his first outing, a young fisherman discovers a body floating face down in the river by a dam site. All signs point to a murder. The victim turns out to be a widower who...
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Waiting in the Wings
by KJ Johns
After an eventful spring, Kay Gates has finally settled into a new chapter in her life in Sydenham, Ontario, but her past refuses to stay in the past. She briefly runs into two classmates from high school during a grocery run, but doesn’t think...
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Death of a Codebreaker
by Max Folsom
OLD CONSPIRACIES, NEW COLD-BLOODED MURDER When Darlene Johanson, a young librarian in Ottawa, Ontario, goes missing, private investigator Baker Somerset soon discovers a tangled web that leads her to a decades-old murder. Darlene’s great-aunt...
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Trusting Claire
by Alyssa Hall
Claire Perova has always struggled to find the people and places that make up “home.” After a lengthy university adventure in Greece, she returns to Canada where she eventually meets two men. But just as her romantic life starts getting...
