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Alibi By Accident

by Kayleigh Suggett

Part of: Verona Montero

Alberta

Mystery

Verona Montero loves calling herself a private dick because it makes her sound like she’s in a 1940s detective movie. And…

After the unexpected death of her grandmother, Mary inherits her property and returns home to western Newfoundland with…

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Hygge and Homicide

by A. L. Jensen

Part of: Hygge House Nordic Mysteries

Ontario

Mystery

When talented interior designer Minna Halonen returns to her idyllic northern hometown after decades away, she's ready for…

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Lights, Camera, Murder

by Maureen Fisher

Part of: Senior Sleuth Series

Alberta

Mystery

When a feisty dude ranch owner, a woman of ‘a certain age,’ famous for dumping men and nailing murderers, teams up with…

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Ice Box

by Lisa Adair

Part of: Glenmere Box Mysteries

Saskatchewan

Mystery

It’s 1985, and Glenmere, Saskatchewan, is still reeling from past scandals when sixteen-year-old Amy Young stumbles upon…

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The Split Pea Tango

by Josh Hellyer

Part of: Highclere Inn & Carriage House Mysteries

Ontario

Mystery

When the “Society for Transcendent Understanding of Past-Life Identification and Discovery” rolls into town, Mason Valentine…

It’s the summer of 1976 and Alice and Tom set out on the remote Canadian highways in their new RV, hoping to heal their…

While recovering from a professional setback, documentary filmmaker Jane Duvall stays at a remote hotel during the off season…

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A Box of Frogs

by Josh Hellyer

Part of: Highclere Inn & Carriage House Mysteries

Ontario

Mystery

When centenarian Senator Miles “The Tank” Valentine meets an electrifying end at his own resort, Highclere Inn & Carriage…

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The Puzzle Box

by Lisa Adair

Part of: Glenmere Box Mysteries

Saskatchewan

Mystery

She's desperate to escape, but Glenmere has other plans.After the sudden death of her grandmother, sixteen-year-old Amy…

Crescent Cove, a small hamlet on Vancouver Island, is the last place out-of-work investigative journalist Luke Tremblay…

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Evil Tale I Heard

by Seán Haldane

Part of: Chad Hobbes Historical Crimes

Prince Edward Island

Mystery

In 1871 Chad Hobbes and his Tsimshian wife Lukswaas are on their way to England when Chad is asked to solve a new murder…

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Bury Your Dead

by Louise Penny

Part of: Chief Inspector Gamache

Quebec

Mystery

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is on break from duty in Three Pines to attend the famed Winter Carnival up north. He has…

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Deadly Thanksgiving

by Maureen Fisher

Part of: Senior Sleuth Series

Alberta

Mystery

Crime has never been so funny. A corpse, a goat yoga disaster, a spitting llama, a mechanical bull gone berserk, and an…

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The Beautiful Mystery

by Louise Penny

Part of: Chief Inspector Gamache

Quebec

Mystery

No outsiders are ever admitted to the monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups, hidden deep in the wilderness of Quebec,…

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Why the Rock Falls

by J. E. Barnard

Part of: The Falls Mysteries

Alberta

Mystery

After a dinner-party clash between entrenched oil interests and liberal Hollywood insiders, only Michael and Tyrone, the…

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Bitter Paradise

by Ross Pennie

Part of: Dr. Zol Szabo Medical Mysteries

Ontario

Mystery

After weeks of torture at the hands of Syria's secret police, the bombing of his villa in the ancient city of Aleppo, and…

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Horsing Around with Murder

by Maureen Fisher

Part of: Senior Sleuth Series

Alberta

Mystery

After retiring from a long career in accounting, Abby Foster expects a peaceful life, but those plans vanish when she and…

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Where the Ice Falls

by J. E. Barnard

Part of: The Falls Mysteries

Alberta

Mystery

When Zoe and her teenage daughter discover an ice-covered corpse at her boss’s mountain chalet, ex-Mountie Lacey McCrae…

Private investigator Anne Brown works undercover at a seafood plant plagued by vandalism, loss, and bad luck. Meanwhile,residents…

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When the flood falls

by J. E. Barnard

Part of: The Falls Mysteries

Alberta

Mystery

With her career in tatters and her marriage receding in the rear-view mirror, ex-RCMP corporal Lacey McCrae trades her uniform…

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One For the Rock

by Kevin Major

Part of: Sebastian Synard Mysteries

Newfoundland and Labrador

Mystery

Sebastian Synard doesn’t want any more trouble than he already has. But when he leads a group of tourists along the cliffs…

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It Begins in Betrayal

by Iona Whishaw

Part of: Lane Winslow Mysteries

British Columbia

Mystery

Summer descends over the picturesque King’s Cove as Darling and Lane’s mutual affection blossoms. But their respite from…

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Cod Only Knows

by Hilary MacLeod

Part of: The Shores Mysteries

Prince Edward Island

Mystery

For the first time in thirty years, all the signs have returned to the waters off The Shores. Signs of a presumed gone,…

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The Brutal Telling

by Louise Penny

Part of: Chief Inspector Gamache

Quebec

Mystery

Chaos is coming, old son. With those words the peace of Three Pines is shattered. Everybody goes to Olivier's Bistro―including…

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An Old, Cold Grave

by Iona Whishaw

Part of: Lane Winslow Mysteries

British Columbia

Mystery

Even the smallest, most idyllic communities have dangerous secrets. When the Hughes ladies—King Cove’s favourite mere et…

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Gold Mountain

by Vicki Delany

Part of: Klondike Mystery Series

Yukon

Mystery

When Fiona MacGillivray refuses the bandit Paul Sheridan, it's up to her son to to save her. Book Three of the Klondike…

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Death in a Darkening Mist

by Iona Whishaw

Part of: Lane Winslow Mysteries

British Columbia

Mystery

On a snowy day in December 1946, Lane Winslow—a former British intelligence agent who’s escaped to the rural Canadian community…

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Nature Of The Beast

by Louise Penny

Part of: Chief Inspector Gamache

Quebec

Mystery

Hardly a day goes by when nine year old Laurent Lepage doesn't cry wolf. From alien invasions, to walking trees, to winged…

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Unreasonable Doubt

by Vicki Delany

Part of: Constable Molly Smith Mysteries

British Columbia

Mystery

What would it be like to return to your hometown after twenty-five years in prison for a crime you have maintained you did…

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Killer in King's Cove

by Iona Whishaw

Part of: Lane Winslow Mysteries

British Columbia

Mystery

It is 1946, and war-weary young ex-intelligence officer Lane Winslow leaves London to look for a fresh start. When she finds…

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Devil's Making

by Seán Haldane

Part of: Chad Hobbes Historical Crimes

British Columbia

Mystery

In the ramshackle capital of one of the last colonies in North America, a few thousand settlers aspire to the values of…

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Deja Dead

by Kathy Reichs

Part of: Temperance Brennan

Quebec

Mystery

When a female corpse is discovered meticulously dismembered and stashed in trash bags, Temperance detects an alarming pattern…

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Frost Bite

by Nelson Brunanski

Part of: Small-Town Saskatchewan Mysteries

Saskatchewan

Mystery

When the CEO of a muli-national corporation is found frozen to death under a pile of wheat in Crooked Lake, Saskatchewan,…

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Bodies and Sole

by Hilary MacLeod

Part of: The Shores Mysteries

Prince Edward Island

Mystery

The Shores is celebrating a killer 200th anniversary. A skull tossed up on the beach sparks a heritage murder investigation.…

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The long way home

by Louise Penny

Part of: Chief Inspector Gamache

Quebec

Mystery

At first enjoying a peaceful retirement, former Quebec homicide detective Armand Gamache reluctantly agrees to help a neighbor…

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Don't Forget You Love Me

by Rosemary Aubert

Part of: Ellis Portal Mysteries

Ontario

Mystery

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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Under Cold Stone

by Vicki Delany

Part of: Constable Molly Smith Mysteries

British Columbia

Mystery

Passionate environmentalist, old-time hippy Lucky Smith and Chief Constable of Trafalgar, British Columbia Paul Keller are…

As a teenager, Toni Murphy had a life full of typical adolescent complications: a boyfriend she adored, a younger sister…

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Always watching

by Chevy Stevens

Part of: Nadine Lavoie

British Columbia

Mystery

When a distraught woman, Heather Simeon, is brought into the Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit after a suicide attempt, Nadine…

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Burnt Out

by Nelson Brunanski

Part of: Small-Town Saskatchewan Mysteries

Saskatchewan

Mystery

When fire destroys their fishing lodge in Northern Saskatchewan it soon becomes evident that nothing will ever be the same…

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Up in smoke

by Ross Pennie

Part of: Dr. Zol Szabo Medical Mysteries

Ontario

Mystery

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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Something fishy

by Hilary MacLeod

Part of: The Shores Mysteries

Prince Edward Island

Mystery

Herrings are falling from the sky over The Shores – an unusual phenomenon anywhere, but especially so in this case. A newcomer,…

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How the Light Gets In

by Louise Penny

Part of: Chief Inspector Gamache

Quebec

Mystery

In Three Pines Chief Inspector Armand Gamache investigates the disappearance of a woman who was once one of the most famous…

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Gold web

by Vicki Delany

Part of: Klondike Mystery Series

Yukon

Mystery

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…

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A Cold White Sun

by Vicki Delany

Part of: Constable Molly Smith Mysteries

British Columbia

Mystery

It's the end of March and Trafalgar, British Columbia, is preparing for the last influx of the seasonal skiers. Teachers,…

The High, a band with a few hit songs in the late 1970s, have reunited to play the nostalgia circuit at casinos. But for…

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A Dismal Thing to Do

by Charlotte MacLeod

Part of: Madoc and Janet Rhys Mysteries

New Brunswick

Mystery

In Charlotte MacLeod’s A Dismal Thing to Do, Janet Rhys is thrust into a fight for survival after witnessing a truck crash…

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Trouble in the Brasses

by Charlotte MacLeod

Part of: Madoc and Janet Rhys Mysteries

New Brunswick

Mystery

Although he is a decorated officer of the Mounted Police, Madoc Rhys's tin ear has long been an embarrassment to his musically…

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The Wrong Rite

by Charlotte MacLeod

Part of: Madoc and Janet Rhys Mysteries

New Brunswick

Mystery

For mounted policeman Madoc Rhys and his wife, Janet, the pains of traveling with an infant are worth taking young Dorothy…

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Murder Goes Mumming

by Charlotte MacLeod

Part of: Madoc and Janet Rhys Mysteries

New Brunswick

Mystery

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…

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A Pint of Murder

by Charlotte MacLeod

Part of: Madoc and Janet Rhys Mysteries

New Brunswick

Mystery

In a quiet small town in New Brunswick, old Agatha Treadway makes one last cranky complaint to her niece before dying on…

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The Grub-And-Stakers Spin a Yarn

by Charlotte MacLeod

Part of: Grub-and-Stakers

Ontario

Mystery

When word gets out that Dittany Monk, the sleuthing gardener of Lobelia Falls, is expecting twins, every knitter in town…

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…

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All is Clam

by Hilary MacLeod

Part of: The Shores Mysteries

Prince Edward Island

Mystery

It's Christmas at The Shores. There's no snow yet, but there are so many outdoor lights that the tiny coastal village can…

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Until the night

by Giles Blunt

Part of: John Cardinal and Lise Delorme

Ontario

Mystery

At first this newly-dead body sprawled in a motel parking lot looks run of the mill; the corpse has a big boot print on…

Nicole Patterson is a young, green and very eager probationary constable with the Ontario Provincial Police. Although she…

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Tampered

by Ross Pennie

Part of: Dr. Zol Szabo Medical Mysteries

Ontario

Mystery

Though Zol and his team have investigated every centimetre of Camelot Lodge, a residence for healthy seniors blessed with…

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Tainted

by Ross Pennie

Part of: Dr. Zol Szabo Medical Mysteries

Ontario

Mystery

In an affluent city perched on Ontario’s Niagara Escarpment, residents begin turning up on the pathologist’s autopsy table…

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Mind Over Mussels

by Hilary MacLeod

Part of: The Shores Mysteries

Prince Edward Island

Mystery

Nothing big ever happens in The Shores. Ceilidhs, yes. Killings, no. That all changes when amateur sleuth, Hy McAllister…

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A trick of the light

by Louise Penny

Part of: Chief Inspector Gamache

Quebec

Mystery

"Hearts are broken," Lillian Dyson carefully underlined in a book. "Sweet relationships are dead." But now Lillian herself…

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Among The Departed

by Vicki Delany

Part of: Constable Molly Smith Mysteries

British Columbia

Mystery

Fifteen years ago a young girl named Moonlight Smith went to her best friend Nicky Nowak's house for a sleepover. Moonlight…

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Never knowing

by Chevy Stevens

Part of: Nadine Lavoie

British Columbia

Mystery

At thirty-three Sara Gallagher is finally happy. Her antique furniture restoration business is taking off and she’s engaged…

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Still life

by Louise Penny

Part of: Chief Inspector Gamache

Quebec

Mystery

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a suspicious…

Vernard ‘Get’ McGetty is back from serving in Afghanistan, back dealing drugs in Detroit and looking to move up with his…

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Revenge of the lobster lover

by Hilary MacLeod

Part of: The Shores Mysteries

Prince Edward Island

Mystery

It's lobster season at The Shores, a fishing village isolated from The Island in a storm surge. Parker, a collector of antiquities,…

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Crime Machine

by Giles Blunt

Part of: John Cardinal and Lise Delorme

Ontario

Mystery

A year after the death of his beloved but troubled wife Catherine, John has moved into a new, but very humid, condo. He…

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Gold Fever

by Vicki Delany

Part of: Klondike Mystery Series

Yukon

Mystery

A newcomer to town has secrets Fiona doesn’t want revealed… Its the spring of 1898, and thousands of people, from all corners…

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Negative Image

by Vicki Delany

Part of: Constable Molly Smith Mysteries

British Columbia

Mystery

As the mountain town of Trafalgar, British Columbia, shakes off a long hard winter, famous photographer Rudolph Steiner…

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Winter Of Secrets

by Vicki Delany

Part of: Constable Molly Smith Mysteries

British Columbia

Mystery

Siblings Wendy and Jason Wyatt-Yarmouth and their friends have come to the peaceful mountain town of Trafalgar, B.C. to…

On the day she was abducted, Annie O’Sullivan, a 32-year-old realtor, had three goals - sell a house, forget about a recent…

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A rule against murder

by Louise Penny

Part of: Chief Inspector Gamache

Quebec

Mystery

t is the height of summer, and Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache are celebrating their wedding anniversary at Manoir Bellechasse,…

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Gold Digger

by Vicki Delany

Part of: Klondike Mystery Series

Yukon

Mystery

It’s the spring of 1898, and Dawson, Yukon Territory, is the most exciting town in North America. The great Klondike Gold…

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Valley of the Lost

by Vicki Delany

Part of: Constable Molly Smith Mysteries

British Columbia

Mystery

In the mountain town of Trafalgar, British Columbia, a young woman is found dead of a heroin overdose, her baby lying at…

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Sign of the cross

by Anne Emery

Part of: Collins-Burke Mysteries

Nova Scotia

Mystery

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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In the Shadow of the Glacier

by Vicki Delany

Part of: Constable Molly Smith Mysteries

British Columbia

Mystery

Trouble is brewing in the small, bucolic mountain town of Trafalgar, British Columbia. An American who came to Trafalgar…

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The Cruellest Month

by Louise Penny

Part of: Chief Inspector Gamache

Quebec

Mystery

It's Easter, and on a glorious Spring day in peaceful Three Pines, someone waits for night to fall. When Chief Inspector…

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A fatal grace

by Louise Penny

Part of: Chief Inspector Gamache

Quebec

Mystery

No one liked CC de Poitiers. Not her quiet husband, not her spineless lover, not her pathetic daughter—and certainly none…

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Crooked Lake

by Nelson Brunanski

Part of: Small-Town Saskatchewan Mysteries

Saskatchewan

Mystery

Easygoing Bart Bartowski doesn't like to stick his nose where it don't belong, but finds himself doing just that when his…

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By the time you read this

by Giles Blunt

Part of: John Cardinal and Lise Delorme

Ontario

Mystery

Autumn has arrived in Algonquin Bay, and with it an unusual spate of suicides. The most shocking yet is Cardinal’s wife…

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Blackfly Season

by Giles Blunt

Part of: John Cardinal and Lise Delorme

Ontario

Mystery

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

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Forty Words for Sorrow

by Giles Blunt

Part of: John Cardinal and Lise Delorme

Ontario

Mystery

In the quiet Canadian town of Algonquin Bay, a frozen body has been found in an abandoned mine shaft. She is soon identified…

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Red mass

by Rosemary Aubert

Part of: Ellis Portal Mysteries

Ontario

Mystery

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

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The Delicate Storm

by Giles Blunt

Part of: John Cardinal and Lise Delorme

Ontario

Mystery

A gruesome discovery in the wilderness north of Algonquin Bay leads detectives John Cardinal and Lisa Delorme to a remote…

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Leave Me By Dying

by Rosemary Aubert

Part of: Ellis Portal Mysteries

Ontario

Mystery

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

When artists, writers, and performers gather at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the serene mountain setting is meant to inspire…

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The last hand

by Eric Wright

Part of: Charlie Salter

Ontario

Mystery

In this final installment of the Charlie Salter mystery series, a sixty-something Salter struggles with the realities of…

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The ferryman will be there

by Rosemary Aubert

Part of: Ellis Portal Mysteries

Ontario

Mystery

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

Mystery

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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Murder on The Canadian

by Eric Wilson

Part of: Tom & Liz Austen Mysteries

Manitoba

Mystery

Tom Austen, an aspiring detective, finds himself in the midst of a murder plot while travelling on a three-day transcontinental…

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Free reign

by Rosemary Aubert

Part of: Ellis Portal Mysteries

Ontario

Mystery

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

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Death by degrees

by Eric Wright

Part of: Charlie Salter

Ontario

Mystery

In Death by Degrees, Inspector Charlie Salter investigates the murder of a dean at Bathurst Community College, a case that…

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A fine Italian hand

by Eric Wright

Part of: Charlie Salter

Ontario

Mystery

Charlie Salter investigates the murder of actor Alec Hunter, who was found dead in a sleazy hotel. The investigation reveals…

While vacationing with his family on Prince Edward Island, Toronto Detective Inspector Charlie Salter finds himself assisting…

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Final cut

by Eric Wright

Part of: Charlie Salter

Ontario

Mystery

Final Cut by Eric Wright follows Inspector Charlie Salter as he investigates a film set plagued by sabotage, including a…

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A sensitive case

by Eric Wright

Part of: Charlie Salter

Ontario

Mystery

Special Affairs Inspector Charlie Salter and Chief Investigator Sergeant Mel Pickett are tasked with the sensitive murder…

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A question of murder

by Eric Wright

Part of: Charlie Salter

Ontario

Mystery

Inspector Charlie Salter investigates a string of anonymous threatening letters sent to Yorkville merchants, a case that…

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The Grub-and-Stakers Quilt a Bee

by Charlotte MacLeod

Part of: Grub-and-Stakers

Ontario

Mystery

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…

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The man who changed his name

by Eric Wright

Part of: Charlie Salter

Ontario

Mystery

In The Man Who Changed His Name, Inspector Charlie Salter investigates the murder of Nancy Cowell, a woman who met her killer…

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Death in the old country

by Eric Wright

Part of: Charlie Salter

Ontario

Mystery

Death in the Old Country is a mystery novel by Eric Wright featuring Toronto Police Inspector Charlie Salter. While vacationing…

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Smoke detector

by Eric Wright

Part of: Charlie Salter

Ontario

Mystery

In "Smoke Detector," Inspector Charlie Salter investigates the death of an antiques dealer who died in a fire later proven…

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The night the gods smiled

by Eric Wright

Part of: Charlie Salter

Ontario, Quebec

Mystery

Inspector Charlie Salter, a detective with the Toronto Police Department, is assigned to solve the murder of Professor David…