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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…
Corporal Belvedere, a Mountie scarred by a brutal past, and Surgeon Virgil Montgomery, a newcomer haunted by his own doubts,…
A gripping dual-timeline novel about the mysterious death of an indomitable female papyrologist during an archaeological…
Set in 1929, Rosie Ryan dreams of escaping Toronto’s rough Ward neighborhood by securing a position as a chambermaid at…
Lane struggles to distinguish friend from foe when a new case forces her to confront political intrigue, personal betrayal,…
Lane faces one of her most emotionally charged cases when a kidnapping exposes deep fractures within the community. As she…
The newspapers have reported on the arrest of two Black teenagers in a burglary, but did the pair actually commit the crime?…
Beginning with a dramatic explosion, this installment plunges Lane into a case involving sabotage, personal vendettas, and…
Born Kathleen to an immigrant Irish farming family in southern Ontario, Kit McNair has been a troublesome changeling since,…
Spanning both world wars, this mystery forces Lane to confront old loyalties and buried histories. When a man disappears…
A shocking Prohibition-era murder in a dusty Saskatchewan border town inflames the public’s suspicions about links between…
In a world still recovering from the War to End All Wars and the Spanish Influenza pandemic that killed fifty million people…
In the cold Toronto winter of 1895, the unclad body of a young woman is found naked and frozen in a quiet laneway. Acting…
It’s early spring 1948 and Lane arrives in New Denver to find that her friend, Peter Barisoff, is not at home. Instead,…
In 1871 Chad Hobbes and his Tsimshian wife Lukswaas are on their way to England when Chad is asked to solve a new murder…
Lane becomes involved in a case centered on a local schoolteacher and a troubling incident that threatens the community’s…
Charlotte’s boss at T. Gilmore and Associates takes off on a mysterious trip to Europe, leaving Charlotte in charge of the…
Lane and Darling travel to Tucson for their honeymoon, only to witness a wealthy guest shot in broad daylight. Their romantic…
It's July 1936 and Toronto is under a record-breaking heat wave. Charlotte Frayne is the junior associate in a two-person…
As Lane prepares for her wedding, she assists an elderly Russian countess searching for her missing brother. A hunter’s…
A young man is pulled from a sinking boat, gravely injured. As Darling and Ames hunt for his attacker, clues point toward…
Summer descends over the picturesque King’s Cove as Darling and Lane’s mutual affection blossoms. But their respite from…
In November 1917, Detective Murdoch investigates a series of murders in Toronto’s Ward. His son, Jack, recently returned…
Even the smallest, most idyllic communities have dangerous secrets. When the Hughes ladies—King Cove’s favourite mere et…
When Fiona MacGillivray refuses the bandit Paul Sheridan, it's up to her son to to save her. Book Three of the Klondike…
On a snowy day in December 1946, Lane Winslow—a former British intelligence agent who’s escaped to the rural Canadian community…
In 1922, U.S. Prohibition was in full swing, and the bootlegging business was booming for Jewish-Canadian entrepreneurs…
It is 1946, and war-weary young ex-intelligence officer Lane Winslow leaves London to look for a fresh start. When she finds…
In the ramshackle capital of one of the last colonies in North America, a few thousand settlers aspire to the values of…
The year is 1929 and Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Willa Cather and her partner Edith Lewis are summering on Grand Manan,…
In 1858, a young woman on her honeymoon is abducted and taken across the border from Canada and sold into slavery. Thirty-eight…
In his forties, the Reverend Charles Howard still cut an impressive figure. A married Presbyterian minister in Toronto’s…
The year is 1898. The place is Dawson City, Yukon. A man staggers out of the dusk to collapse at the feet of a startled…
In a small prairie school in 1929, Connie Flood helps a backward student, Michael Graves, learn how to read. Observing them…
A girl's gone missing. Can Suzanna solve the crime? It is 1905 and young Suzanna works at her family's inn in Loch Harbor,…
Following a night at The Silver Dollar dance hall, a teenage girl turns up dead in a gravel pit. The last person reported…
Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer, Thomas Kinnear, and Nancy Montgomery,…
A newcomer to town has secrets Fiona doesn’t want revealed… Its the spring of 1898, and thousands of people, from all corners…
It’s the spring of 1898, and Dawson, Yukon Territory, is the most exciting town in North America. The great Klondike Gold…
After thirteen-year-old Agnes Fisher faints at school, her teacher, the young and still idealistic Amy Slade, is shocked…
Women rich and poor come to her, desperate and in dire need of help – and discretion. Dolly Merishaw is a midwife and an…
Seven-year-old Matthew disappears in Depression-era Saskatchewan, followed by other children. A strange man named Abram…
Murdoch’s life and work overlap tragically. His sister, who long ago fled to a convent to escape their abusive father, is…
The 1919 Winnipeg General Strike is the dramatic backdrop for the third instalment of the Sam Klein Mystery Series. The…
Murdoch becomes involved with the apparent suicide of Constable Oliver Wicken – a man who was the sole support of his mother…
Sins of the Suffragette is set in Winnipeg during the early 20th century and follows the investigation of the murder of…
Sam Klein is a bouncer and guardian of local brothel who investigates the murder of a young girl. The number one suspect,…
Sexton Blake, on vacation in New Brunswick, crosses paths with Hammerton Palmer, a villain that Blake has dealt with in…