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It is the summer of 1940 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, a city that has become a bustling strategic port for the war raging in…
The final stop on Synard’s lighthouse tour is the one at L’Anse Amour, Labrador, the highest in all Atlantic Canada. It’s…
In Three for Trinity, the third book in the Sebastian Synard Mystery series, offbeat humour meets suspense as a nefarious…
ebastian Synard is back. It’s the off-season, and the Newfoundland tour guide introduced in One for the Rock has crossed…
Jack Taggart discovers the guns are being smuggled into Canada from the United States. After a fellow officer is murdered…
After the new leader of the Satans Wrath Motorcycle Club ordered the murder and torture of three people ― one who was wrongly…
As winter closes in and the roads snow over in Dawson City, Yukon, newly arrived journalist Jo Silver investigates the dubious…
Jack Taggart is once again going head to head with his nemesis, Damien Zabat, national president of the Satans Wrath Motorcycle…
Jack Taggart goes undercover to follow the trail of a cheap weapon found at the scene of a murder. He traces the gun to…
Jack Taggart is out for justice, and just a little revenge, when he goes undercover as a pimp to hunt down the murderer…
Twenty-nine-year-old Michael Drayton runs a private investigation agency in Vancouver that specializes in missing persons.…
While investigating a murder, RCMP undercover operative Jack Taggart finds himself in too deep when he tangles with an Asian…
Unable to just let his job go completely, Reid unwisely takes an assignment on his way north to investigate police corruption…
Reid Bennett, police chief of tiny Murphy's Harbour in Canada, is looking forward to a month's vacation. He plans to spend…
When gold is found in the mountains of Canada, it brings a rush of prospectors, pilots, and men looking to get rich quick.…
During the Ice Festival, there is a sudden blackout and the Queen of the Ice Festival disappears; in fact she has been kidnapped!…
After his life was destroyed because of his efforts to prevent a rape, Reid Bennett relocated to Murphy's Harbor, a quaint…
Corporate Asset takes undercover operative Jack Taggart into the world of white-collar crime and murder. Insurance companies…
Taggart investigates the murder of someone who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Wiretap information identifies…
RCMP detective Jack Taggart has avenged the murders of his niece and nephew, but the consequences linger. His deal with…
Jack Taggart, an undercover Mountie, lives in a world where the good guys and the bad guys change places in a heartbeat.…
A young woman is shot dead. Her boyfriend is the only witness but refuses to co-operate. Then he too is tortured and murdered.…
Jack Willows and Claire Parker are investigating the death of Kenny Lee, a local owner of a Chinese newspaper. He was discovered…
A blood-stained car is found, abandoned. Willows and Parker are called in to investigate a possible homicide: there is evidence…
But when you’re a cop, you’re never off the clock, and when he stumbles across the body of a young girl up in the mountains,…