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  • In Hardy's Shadow

    Another Henry and Julia Trevellyn mystery
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    Emigres Henry and Julia Trevellyn, have recovered from the unfortunate events that occurred a couple of years previously on their beloved Hecla Island, the location of their lakeside cottage two hours north of Winnipeg Manitoba. Henry a retired...


  • Cold Case in the Cariboo

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    Vernon Buckingham disappeared in 1969. At the time, all anyone knew was that he had gone on a hunting trip in the Cariboo region and never returned. But when human remains are found in the woods near Quesnel twenty-eight years later, Buckingham’s...


  • The Book of Gronsky

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    Gilbert Gronsky is at it again. The neophyte author of The Life of Gronsky has returned to the world of Danny Hawkins, a Vancouver Island-based P.I. whose midcentury sleuthing proves far more palatable than the grind of post-pandemic...


  • Fair of Face

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    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...


  • 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...


  • 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....


  • Without Conviction

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    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....


  • Family Connections

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    After Clare Allan’s son-in-law is murdered, the accomplished grandmother becomes a private investigator whose search for answers draws her into a massive gambling and global money-laundering operation. But she’s not the only person on the trail...


  • The Man with the Axe

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    Private investigator Mitch Watson makes a decent living in a small, Middle-American city. He mostly looks into fraud and insurance claims along with the occasional case of adultery. But the stakes rise when Henry, one of his poker buddies, calls...


  • In the Fog

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    I reach for my scotch glass. Empty. I slam it down and check my pockets. My hand fumbles with my pack of Woodbines. Damn. I need a ciggy, bad. I shake a smoke out and put it to my lips. I strike a match, light, and inhale. Ah, that’s the ticket....