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The body of Pastor Sandy Gardner, a TV preacher with a global following, turns up near a Halifax container pier. The mysterious…

An unnamed narrator abandons his unfinished thesis and returns to northern Alberta in search of what eludes him: the shape…

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Butterfly Kills

by Brenda Chapman

Part of: Stonechild and Rouleau Mystery

Ontario

Indigenous

Jacques Rouleau has moved to Kingston to look after his father and take up the position of head of the town’s Criminal Investigations…

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Cold Mourning

by Brenda Chapman

Part of: Stonechild and Rouleau Mystery

Ontario

Indigenous

Officer Kala Stonechild, who has left her Northern Ontario detachment to join a specialized Ottawa crime unit, is tasked…

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Framed in Fire

by Iona Whishaw

Part of: Lane Winslow Mystery

British Columbia

Indigenous

It’s early spring 1948 and Lane arrives in New Denver to find that her friend, Peter Barisoff, is not at home. Instead,…

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I'll See You in My Dreams

by William Deverell

Part of: Arthur Beauchamp

British Columbia

Indigenous

Arthur Beauchamp, after a successful and much-lauded career at the criminal bar, is now retired to Garibaldi Island. His…

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Reserved For Murder

by Kevin Hopkins

Part of: Ottawa Detective

Ontario

Indigenous

Everyone has a secret. And some people will go to any length to keep theirs. When the body of a teenage boy is found hanging…

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Closing Time

by Brenda Chapman

Part of: Stonechild and Rouleau Mystery

Ontario

Indigenous

It’s late summer and a restless Officer Kala Stonechild has taken her foster niece, Dawn, on a canoe trip at Pine Hollow…

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Bleeding Darkness

by Brenda Chapman

Part of: Stonechild and Rouleau Mystery

Ontario

Indigenous

David McKenna lies dying in a Kingston hospital, his children gathered from across the country to say a final goodbye. But…

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Shallow End

by Brenda Chapman

Part of: Stonechild and Rouleau Mystery

Ontario

Indigenous

English teacher, mother, wife, and convicted child predator Jane Thompson has made parole and she has a plan. She begins…

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Tumbled graves

by Brenda Chapman

Part of: Stonechild and Rouleau Mystery

Ontario, Quebec

Indigenous

When Adele Delaney and her daughter Violet go missing, Jacques Rouleau is called upon to investigate. However, struggling…

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The bone seeker

by M. J. McGrath

Part of: Edie Kiglatuk

Nunavut

Indigenous

Edie Kiglatuk works as a summer school teacher in the Canadian arctic. When one of her female students is found dead in…

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Up in smoke

by Ross Pennie

Part of: Dr. Zol Szabo Medical Mystery

Ontario

Indigenous

Epidemic investigator Dr. Zol Szabo and his team are called to a panic’stricken high school in the heart of Ontario’s tobacco…

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White heat

by M. J. McGrath

Part of: Edie Kiglatuk

Nunavut

Indigenous

Half Inuit and half outsider, Edie Kiglatuk is the best guide in her corner of the Arctic. But as a woman, she gets only…

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Arctic Blue Death

by R. J. Harlick

Part of: Meg Harris Mystery

Nunavut, Quebec

Indigenous

The sparsely populated Arctic is no stranger to murder. The fourth in the Meg Harris series follows Meg’s adventures into…

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The River Runs Orange

by R. J. Harlick

Part of: Meg Harris Mystery

Quebec

Indigenous

In the third action-packed thriller of the West Quebec series, Meg Harris is back more determined than ever to fight against…

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Memories Are Murder

by Lou Allin

Part of: Belle Palmer Mystery

Ontario

Indigenous

Belle Palmers old high-school boyfriend rents a property on her road. Zoologist Gary Myers is studying the behaviour of…

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Red ice for a shroud

by R. J. Harlick

Part of: Meg Harris Mystery

Quebec

Indigenous

A young Québécoise sneaks off to meet her Algonquin lover in an isolated hunting camp on the Migiskan Reserve. Five days…

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Blackfly Season

by Giles Blunt

Part of: John Cardinal and Lise Delorme

Ontario

Indigenous

According to detective John Cardinal, the truly diabolical thing about blackflies is their stealthy silence; there is no…

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Death's golden whisper

by R. J. Harlick

Part of: Meg Harris Mystery

Quebec

Indigenous

In the remote wilderness of West Quebec, where trees outnumber people a million to one and lakes a thousand to one, Death’s…

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Blackflies are murder

by Lou Allin

Part of: Belle Palmer Mystery

Ontario

Indigenous

In the sequel to Northern Winters Are Murder, it’s now high summer in Northern Ontario, where everyone is bear bait, even…

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The Shaman's Knife

by Scott Young

Part of: Inspector Matteesie

Northwest Territories

Indigenous

Inuit Matteesie Kitologitak, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police inspector, investigates a brutal double murder in a tiny Arctic…

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Murder in a cold climate

by Scott Young

Part of: Inspector Matteesie

Northwest Territories

Indigenous

When the mysterious connections between the disappearance of a small plane and the murder of a Native-rights activist are…