The Great Canadian Mystery Map
A directory of mystery novels set across Canada organized by place, series, and author.
Mystery Series Set in Canada
Chad Hobbes Historical Crimes
by Seán Haldane
British Columbia, Canada
The Chad Hobbes Historical Crime series by Seán Haldane is a collection of detective mysteries set in the Victorian era.…
Chief Inspector Gamache
by Louise Penny
Quebec, Canada
The series, also known as the Three Pines Mysteries, follows Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec as he…
Constable Molly Smith Mysteries
by Vicki Delany
British Columbia, Canada
The series follows rookie constable Molly Smith as she navigates the challenges of her new role while solving crimes that…
Ellis Portal Mysteries
by Rosemary Aubert
Ontario, Canada
The hero, Ellis Portal is down on his luck, fallen from his role as a respected judge and family man to the poverty-ridden…
Highclere Inn & Carriage House Mysteries
by Josh Hellyer
Ontario, Canada
A laugh-out-loud mystery series set in the Muskoka Lakes area.
Hygge House Nordic Mystery
by A. L. Jensen
Ontario, Canada
Hygge House Mysteries: where murder meets Scandinavian comfort in a rustic northern Ontario town.
John Cardinal and Lise Delorme
by Giles Blunt
Ontario, Canada
The John Cardinal and Lise Delorme series by Giles Blunt consists of six novels, each set in the fictional town of Algonquin…
Klondike Mystery Series
by Vicki Delany
Yukon, Canada
Series set in Dawson City, Yukon, during the Great Klondike Gold Rush of 1898
Lane Winslow Mystery
by Iona Whishaw
British Columbia, Canada
The books are set in 1946 in a charming backwater community in BC that the author lived in as a child. It is a community…
Nadine Lavoie
by Chevy Stevens
British Columbia, Canada
Nadine Lavoie is a psychiatrist who helps others confront their inner demons while grappling with her own traumatic past.
Temperance Brennan
by Kathy Reichs
Quebec, Canada
The Temperance Brennan series, written by Kathy Reichs, features a forensic anthropologist who investigates crimes in Montreal.…
The Shores Mysteries
by Hilary MacLeod
Prince Edward Island, Canada
The Shores Mysteries is a series that immerses readers in the quirky and colorful world of The Shores, a fishing village…
Tom & Liz Austen Mysteries
by Eric Wilson
Manitoba, Canada
The Tom & Liz Austen Mysteries series by Eric Wilson is a collection of young adult detective novels that follow the…
Stand-alone Canadian Mysteries
Killings at Little Rose
by Finley Martin
Prince Edward Island, Canada
Private investigator Anne Brown works undercover at a seafood plant plagued by vandalism, loss, and bad luck. Meanwhile,residents of Little Rose Harbour are shocked by the discovery of secretly-hidden human remains. Violence erupts, entangled secrets come to light, and Anne faces death.
How Elvis saved Quebec
by Ronald Sutherland
Quebec, Canada
Residents of a small Quebec village, half French and half English, are feuding as the referendum on separation from Canada approaches. Meanwhile, an Arab entrepreneur is busy buying property (restaurant, hardware store, marina, large houses), and an Abenaki Indian with a law degree from McGill has arrived in town, allegedly for the spring fishing.
A Winter Kill
by Vicki Delany
Ontario, Canada
Nicole Patterson is a young, green and very eager probationary constable with the Ontario Provincial Police. Although she spends much of her time breaking up bar fights, giving out traffic tickets and finding lost kids, she dreams of one day becoming a detective. Late one bitterly cold winter night, she comes across the body of a young woman lying on the edge of a snow-covered field on the outskirts of town. The girl appears to have been strangled. Nicole recognizes the victim as a local high school…
That Night
by Chevy Stevens
British Columbia, Canada
As a teenager, Toni Murphy had a life full of typical adolescent complications: a boyfriend she adored, a younger sister she couldn't relate to, a strained relationship with her parents, and classmates who seemed hell-bent on making her life miserable. Things weren't easy, but Toni could never have predicted how horrific they would become until her younger sister was brutally murdered one summer night. Toni and her boyfriend, Ryan, were convicted of the murder and sent to prison. Now thirty-four,…
Still missing
by Chevy Stevens
British Columbia, Canada
On the day she was abducted, Annie O’Sullivan, a 32-year-old realtor, had three goals - sell a house, forget about a recent argument with her mother, and be on time for dinner with her ever-patient boyfriend. The open house is slow, but when her last visitor pulls up in a van as she's about to leave, Annie thinks it just might be her lucky day after all.
Hitchhikers
by Chevy Stevens
British Columbia, Canada
t’s the summer of 1976 and Alice and Tom set out on the remote Canadian highways in their new RV, hoping to heal their broken hearts after a devastating tragedy. They’ve planned the trip perfectly, taken care of every detail. Then they meet two young hitchhikers down on their luck and offer them a ride. But Simon and Jenny aren’t what they seem. They’ve left a trail of blood, destruction, and madness behind them. Now Alice and Tom are trapped, prisoners in a deadly game, with nowhere to turn. As…
Searching for Terry Punchout
by Tyler Hellard
Nova Scotia, Canada
Adam Macallister's sportswriting career is about to end before it begins, but he's got one last shot--a Sports Illustrated profile about hockey's most notorious goon, the reclusive Terry Punchout--who also happens to be Adam's estranged father. Adam returns to Pennington, Nova Scotia, where Terry now lives in the local rink and drives the Zamboni. Going home means drinking with old friends, revisiting neglected relationships, and dealing with lingering feelings about his father and dead mother--and…
The Cure for Drowning
by Loghan Paylor
Ontario, Canada
Born Kathleen to an immigrant Irish farming family in southern Ontario, Kit McNair has been a troublesome changeling since, at ten, they fell through the river ice and drowned—only to be nursed back to life by their mother's Celtic magic. A daredevil in boy's clothes, Kit chafes at every aspect of a farmgirl's life, driving that same mother to distraction with worry about where Kit will ever fit in. When Rebekah Kromer, an elegant German-Canadian doctor's daughter, moves to town with her parents…
A Minor Chorus
by Billy-Ray Belcourt
Alberta, Canada
An unnamed narrator abandons his unfinished thesis and returns to northern Alberta in search of what eludes him: the shape of the novel he yearns to write, an autobiography of his rural hometown, the answers to existential questions about family, love, and happiness.
Body in the Back Garden
by Mark Waddell
British Columbia, Canada
Crescent Cove, a small hamlet on Vancouver Island, is the last place out-of-work investigative journalist Luke Tremblay ever wanted to see again. He used to spend summers here, until his family learned that he was gay and rejected him. Now, following his aunt’s sudden death, he’s inherited her entire estate, including her seaside cottage and the antiques shop she ran for forty years in Crescent Cove. Luke plans to sell everything and head back to Toronto as soon as he can…but Crescent Cove isn’t…