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Drew Benson has a secret. She gets visions, something she hasn’t tapped into since she was a teenager, when her late aunt,…
When Kausar Khan decided to move back to Toronto to be closer to her family, she didn't expect to have another murder investigation…
Journalist Cat Conway is looking forward to an easy assignment covering a major wellness and self-actualization summit at…
Lane Winslow is known in her idyllic British Columbia laketown of King's Cove for a bad habit of finding dead bodies. This…
Val Jenkins is stuck. A journalist for the Halifax Post, she's been writing a local books column for over a decade. But…
In the fourth book in the series, Dr. Peter Bannerman’s brother Sam takes in three Bengal kittens after the previous owner,…
Belinda Bishop is unemployed and single. At thirty-two, her journalism career feels stuck, and let’s not even speak about…
Valerie Rankin, manager of the Gasper’s Cove Crafter’s Co-op, is ready for a successful Spring Craft Show, until the lights…
When talented interior designer Minna Halonen returns to her idyllic northern hometown after decades away, she's ready for…
Leaves are turning red in cottage country, and Charley Scott is putting together a Halloween pulp art installation inspired…
After her husband’s unexpected death twelve months earlier, Kausar Khan never thought she’d receive another phone call as…
Lane faces one of her most emotionally charged cases when a kidnapping exposes deep fractures within the community. As she…
The long, frigid winters of Nova Scotia are perfect for crafting—but when a once-in-a-lifetime snowstorm cuts off Gasper’s…
Lies, chaos, and an unexpected death—the hunt for a killer begins. When a blunder among the senior members threatens to…
When a feisty dude ranch owner, a woman of ‘a certain age,’ famous for dumping men and nailing murderers, teams up with…
All Ethan Baines wants is to get on with his life and find a farm where he can operate an organic co-op farm. Little does…
A big-city journalist joins the staff of a small-town paper in cottage country and finds a community full of secrets … and…
Beginning with a dramatic explosion, this installment plunges Lane into a case involving sabotage, personal vendettas, and…
Peter Bannerman, veterinarian and amateur detective, deserves a summer vacation. Peter and his family head to a remote fishing…
A lot has changed at Rankin’s General. Valerie becomes the new manager, while her cousin Rollie opens a B&B with his librarian…
Valerie Rankin returns to Gasper's Cove just as a tumultuous mayoral election throws the small town into chaos. When her…
Leaving her past in Germany, Gretha Braun’s new life on Cape Breton Island Canada is cut short when she is brutally murdered.…
Spanning both world wars, this mystery forces Lane to confront old loyalties and buried histories. When a man disappears…
It’s springtime in rural Manitoba, and the snow has finally left the exotic animal farm when an ostrich finds and swallows…
Two generations ago, Winston Churchill’s greatest lie washed ashore in Nova Scotia. Before anyone can recover what was lost,…
Valerie Rankin, a seamstress and empty-nester, is determined to put Gasper’s Cove, Nova Scotia on the map by opening a crafter’s…
Crescent Cove, a small hamlet on Vancouver Island, is the last place out-of-work investigative journalist Luke Tremblay…
Charley Scott is thrilled to be running a summer pop-up gallery in cottage country. Returning to the lakeside village, not…
Ottawa lawyer and victims’ advocate Camilla MacPhee has finally agreed to elope to Cape Breton with her long-time partner,…
Caught up in an investigation that threatens the lives of those he loves, Detective Gordie MacLean and his partner are drawn…
It’s early spring 1948 and Lane arrives in New Denver to find that her friend, Peter Barisoff, is not at home. Instead,…
Peter is an odd duck, obsessed with logic and measurable facts, an obsession he puts to good use in his veterinary practice.…
Gordie MacLean, a 53-year-old bachelor detective is content minding his own patch of Cape Breton Island with its rugged…
Lane becomes involved in a case centered on a local schoolteacher and a troubling incident that threatens the community’s…
Crime has never been so funny. A corpse, a goat yoga disaster, a spitting llama, a mechanical bull gone berserk, and an…
Detective Toby, our favorite feline sleuth, is upset at who and what he sees moving in next door, where his friend, Emma,…
Lane and Darling travel to Tucson for their honeymoon, only to witness a wealthy guest shot in broad daylight. Their romantic…
Emma Gale has never escaped her past ghosts, and when she finds herself alone, her brother imprisoned for his crimes, Emma…
Randy and Steve have finally tied the knot and head south to Puerto Vallarta to celebrate. Unfortunately, Randy’s romantic…
As Lane prepares for her wedding, she assists an elderly Russian countess searching for her missing brother. A hunter’s…
After retiring from a long career in accounting, Abby Foster expects a peaceful life, but those plans vanish when she and…
Jack, a retired police officer, decides he and Toby, his oversized orange tabby, need a holiday after their last big case…
Camden Gale and his sister, Emma, have had a tough life. Camden has become paranoid/delusional about everything and everyone…
A young man is pulled from a sinking boat, gravely injured. As Darling and Ames hunt for his attacker, clues point toward…
Even the smallest, most idyllic communities have dangerous secrets. When the Hughes ladies—King Cove’s favourite mere et…
Anxiety is the watchword at most school reunions, with side-eye comparisons of greying hair and extra pounds around the…
Wherever Randy Craig goes, trouble seems to follow. With the help of her friend Denise, Randy has landed a summer job with…
Despite her best efforts to lead a peaceful life, murder, mystery and mayhem continue to follow reluctant sleuth Randy Craig.…
For anyone other than Randy Craig, a contract to do archival research and web development for Alberta's famed Rutherford…
For mounted policeman Madoc Rhys and his wife, Janet, the pains of traveling with an infant are worth taking young Dorothy…
Though he may not look the part, Madoc Rhys is a Mountie—and his keen sense of detection tells him it's time to ask Janet…
In a quiet small town in New Brunswick, old Agatha Treadway makes one last cranky complaint to her niece before dying on…
When Jenson Thorbisher-Freep announces an amateur theatrical contest, the women in the Grub-and-Stake gardening club race…
Zilla Trott is pouring her cat some chamomile tea when the drifter appears in her kitchen. He is grubby and crude—not at…
One of Canada’s best-loved sleuths returns in her sixth hair-raising adventure. Victims’ advocate Camilla MacPhee is following…
Poor Fiona Silk is broke again. Her romance writing career is tanking, and her tiny house in the lovely community of St.…
Belle Palmers old high-school boyfriend rents a property on her road. Zoologist Gary Myers is studying the behaviour of…
Remembrance Day is a proud day for Camilla MacPhee’s good friend, Mrs. Violet Parnell, one of five thousand Canadian women…
It’s Labour Day, Camilla’s favourite weekend of the year. She’s planning to relax and ponder what’s happening in her relationship…
In the third Belle Palmer mystery, Belle takes her friend and employee on a snowshoe trek. Miriam MacDonald brings her spoiled…
As if it weren’t bad enough being a failed romance writer with no sex life, poor Fiona Silk has to cope with the spectacularly…
Former University of Alberta lecturer Randy Craig is now working part-time at Edmonton's Grant MacEwan College, and struggling…
In the third Camilla MacPhee Mystery, Camilla’s looking forward to cutting loose at Ottawa’s Bluesfest, the huge open-air…
In the sequel to Northern Winters Are Murder, it’s now high summer in Northern Ontario, where everyone is bear bait, even…
When artists, writers, and performers gather at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the serene mountain setting is meant to inspire…
In the second Camilla MacPhee mystery, it’s now forty below in Canada’s capital, but victims’ advocate Camilla is feeling…
How dangerous can words be? The University of Alberta's English Department is caught up in a maelstrom of poison-pen letters,…
Another freezing winter descends in seeming peace upon the Northern Ontario lake where realtor Belle Palmer lives genteelly…
Camilla MacPhee is the black sheep of her perfect, blonde family, although she runs a law office specializing in Justice…
It is glorious August in Saskatchewan, and baseball writer Kate Henry is on a road trip home. Accompanied by her partner,…
With the boys of baseball out on strike, Kate Henry finds herself with time on her hands. Passing on the chance to sit in…
Spring training takes a grim turn when sports journalist Kate Henry and a fellow reporter find a local freelancer, Lucy…
As the baseball season heats up, a serial killer stalks young boys on the streets of Toronto. While sportswriter Kate Henry’s…
Although he is a decorated officer of the Mounted Police, Madoc Rhys's tin ear has long been an embarrassment to his musically…
For the first time in their history, the Toronto Titans are on a winning streak and headed for the World Series—a dream…
The tiny New Brunswick village was a lifetime away from the world of a New York fashion model, but a freak accident had…
The Grub-and-Stakers gardening club has traditionally limited its activities to serving tea and gossiping about wildflowers,…
Anyone growing up in Lobelia Falls is taught to learn the elegant, ancient, and occasionally deadly art of shooting with…