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Long-Shot Trial

by William Deverell

Part of: Arthur Beauchamp

British Columbia

Legal

Arthur Beauchamp is mortified. A biography of his early career as a lawyer paints him as a dissolute womanizer. So he sweats…

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Counted among the Dead

by Anne Emery

Part of: Collins-Burke Mystery

Nova Scotia

Legal

Monty defends a client accused of killing his wife, but the case quickly spirals into a tangle of lies, community tensions,…

Dr. Tim Dare is a forensic psychiatrist whose life is in a mess: his wife has just left him to find herself; his mother…

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Postmark Berlin

by Anne Emery

Part of: Collins-Burke Mystery

Nova Scotia

Legal

A Cold War mystery resurfaces when a letter from Berlin arrives decades late. Monty and Brennan uncover espionage, family…

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Stung

by William Deverell

Part of: Arthur Beauchamp

British Columbia, Ontario

Legal

Lawyer Arthur Beauchamp is facing the most explosive trial of his career: the defence of seven boisterous environmentalists…

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

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Snow Job

by William Deverell

Part of: Arthur Beauchamp

British Columbia, Ontario

Legal

In this zany political thriller, the leader of the despotic Asian nation of Bhashyistan declares war on Canada after a limo…

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Kill All the Judges

by William Deverell

Part of: Arthur Beauchamp

British Columbia

Legal

Is someone systematically killing the judges called to the British Columbian bar? At least one has been murdered and several…

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Whipped

by William Deverell

Part of: Arthur Beauchamp

British Columbia, Quebec

Legal

Montreal journalist Lou Sabatino, under witness protection after nearly being gunned down by the Mafia, is sucked into the…

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Lament for Bonnie

by Anne Emery

Part of: Collins-Burke Mystery

Nova Scotia

Legal

Twelve‑year‑old Bonnie MacDonald vanishes after a family party. Monty’s search pulls him into the Halifax music scene, exposing…

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April Fool

by William Deverell

Part of: Arthur Beauchamp

British Columbia

Legal

Arthur Beauchamp, the scholarly, self-doubting legend of the B.C. criminal bar, is enjoying his retirement on B.C.’s Garibaldi…

When Claire and Bram's only child dies suddenly, it at first appears to be a case of crib death. But when the real cause…

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Sing a Worried Song

by William Deverell

Part of: Arthur Beauchamp

British Columbia

Legal

Everything is going well for Arthur Beauchamp in his early middle age. Life is so good for the top-notch defence lawyer…

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Blood on a Saint

by Anne Emery

Part of: Collins-Burke Mystery

Nova Scotia

Legal

After a young woman claims the Virgin Mary appeared in Father Burke’s churchyard, Halifax is flooded with pilgrims and reporters.…

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Don't Forget You Love Me

by Rosemary Aubert

Part of: Ellis Portal Mysteries

Ontario

Legal

Ellis Portal has resigned from solving mysteries. Or so he thinks. When a profound personal tragedy propels him into a puzzling…

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Stray Bullets

by Robert Rotenberg

Part of: Detective Greene

Ontario

Legal

On a snowy November evening in a bustling downtown doughnut shop. Gunshots erupt, and a young boy is critically injured.…

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Guilty Plea

by Robert Rotenberg

Part of: Detective Greene

Ontario

Legal

On the morning that his headline-grabbing divorce trial is set to begin, Terrance Wyler, youngest son of the Wyler Food…

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Cherry Beach Express

by R. D. Cain

Part of: Steve Nastos Mystery

Ontario

Legal

Until recently, Steve Nastos was a respected Toronto detective and a member of the sexual assault unit. Now he’s in custody,…

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Children in the Morning

by Anne Emery

Part of: Collins-Burke Mystery

Nova Scotia

Legal

Monty defends flamboyant lawyer Beau Delaney, accused of murdering his wife. Family secrets, a mysterious child, and fractures…

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Cecilian Vespers

by Anne Emery

Part of: Collins-Burke Mystery

Nova Scotia

Legal

A German theologian is found nearly decapitated on a Halifax church altar during Vespers. Monty and Brennan navigate church…

Following a night at The Silver Dollar dance hall, a teenage girl turns up dead in a gravel pit. The last person reported…

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Barrington Street Blues

by Anne Emery

Part of: Collins-Burke Mystery

Nova Scotia

Legal

When two men are found shot outside a Halifax bar, police call it a murder‑suicide, but Monty Collins isn’t convinced. His…

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Old City Hall

by Robert Rotenberg

Part of: Detective Greene

Ontario

Legal

Kevin Brace, Canada’s most renowned radio personality, stands in his opulent condominium doorway, bloodied hands gripping…

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Law & disorder

by Mary Jane Maffini

Part of: Camilla McPhee Mystery

Ontario

Legal

One of Canada’s best-loved sleuths returns in her sixth hair-raising adventure. Victims’ advocate Camilla MacPhee is following…

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Sign of the cross

by Anne Emery

Part of: Collins-Burke Mystery

Nova Scotia

Legal

Be careful what you wish for, his mother used to say. Yet how many times, in his twenty years defending the underprivileged,…

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The Dead Don't Get Out Much

by Mary Jane Maffini

Part of: Camilla McPhee Mystery

Ontario

Legal

Remembrance Day is a proud day for Camilla MacPhee’s good friend, Mrs. Violet Parnell, one of five thousand Canadian women…

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Red mass

by Rosemary Aubert

Part of: Ellis Portal Mysteries

Ontario

Legal

The fifth and final episode in Aubert's prize-winning series finds once-disgraced Toronto attorney Ellis Portal readmitted…

Twenty members of a cult are found massacred on an isolated island on Canada’s West Coast. Their leader, Shiva Ram Acharya,…

This legal thriller follows the lives of three young, ambitious lawyers in 1980 as they are setting up their own practice.…

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Leave Me By Dying

by Rosemary Aubert

Part of: Ellis Portal Mysteries

Ontario

Legal

In this prequel to the earlier books in the series, Ellis Portal, the disgraced former judge turned sleuth, is taken back…

Lawyer Foster Cobb’s objective is to bring down the mysterious Dr. Au, responsible for the drugs that flow through Vancouver.…

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Trial of Passion

by William Deverell

Part of: Arthur Beauchamp

British Columbia

Legal

Arthur Beauchamp, one of Vancouver’s most heralded criminal lawyers, has moved to a quiet island off the British Columbia…

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The icing on the corpse

by Mary Jane Maffini

Part of: Camilla McPhee Mystery

Ontario

Legal

In the second Camilla MacPhee mystery, it’s now forty below in Canada’s capital, but victims’ advocate Camilla is feeling…

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The ferryman will be there

by Rosemary Aubert

Part of: Ellis Portal Mysteries

Ontario

Legal

Disgraced former judge and uncoventional sleuth Ellis Portal is recruited by the Toronto police to catch the killer of a…

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The feast of Stephen

by Rosemary Aubert

Part of: Ellis Portal Mysteries

Ontario

Legal

A serious of seemingly routine deaths by exposure in Toronto are revealed to have a much more sinister origin when all the…

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Speak ill of the dead

by Mary Jane Maffini

Part of: Camilla McPhee Mystery

Ontario

Legal

Camilla MacPhee is the black sheep of her perfect, blonde family, although she runs a law office specializing in Justice…

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Free reign

by Rosemary Aubert

Part of: Ellis Portal Mysteries

Ontario

Legal

Ellis Portal had once been an esteemed judge. Now, he lives as a vagrant in the wilderness that runs through the heart of…

In rugged, remote Newfoundland, a merry band of smugglers is carrying on a grand tradition, handed down over centuries.…