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With a toddler and a town to watch out for, Detective Casey Duncan and her husband, Sheriff Eric Dalton, have their hands…
Detective Casey Duncan and her husband, Sheriff Eric Dalton, are entering a new chapter of life as parents to their six-month-old…
Corporal Belvedere, a Mountie scarred by a brutal past, and Surgeon Virgil Montgomery, a newcomer haunted by his own doubts,…
In the rural community of Beacon, Newfoundland, Rebecca Blake's plans for her summer vacation are interrupted when she becomes…
Ray had it all—a loving relationship with his wife June, a busy farm, and two beautiful grown children. Until the night…
Ben Matthews is less than thrilled when he is posted to Canada from Washington, but he doesn’t have time to sit in his disappointment.…
It’s 1968 and James Anderson’s twin brother Dave has just been killed in the Vietnam war. Knowing his turn is next, James…
A chilling murder, a web of lies, and a legacy that won't stay buried. When RCMP officer Matt Brennan inherits Lonely Lake…
Haven’s Rock is a sanctuary town hidden deep in the Yukon for those who need to disappear from the regular world. Detective…
Haven’s Rock is a well-hidden town surrounded by forest. And it’s supposed to be, being that it’s a refuge for those who…
When a feisty dude ranch owner, a woman of ‘a certain age,’ famous for dumping men and nailing murderers, teams up with…
When the “Society for Transcendent Understanding of Past-Life Identification and Discovery” rolls into town, Mason Valentine…
When Ruby’s father passes away, but fails to leave her the millions some expected, Steve, her husband of 35 years, moves…
When centenarian Senator Miles “The Tank” Valentine meets an electrifying end at his own resort, Highclere Inn & Carriage…
The final stop on Synard’s lighthouse tour is the one at L’Anse Amour, Labrador, the highest in all Atlantic Canada. It’s…
When an act of treason leaves Justin and his Arctic team stranded on the ice, they must fight for survival in a deadly battle…
Leaving her past in Germany, Gretha Braun’s new life on Cape Breton Island Canada is cut short when she is brutally murdered.…
Deep in the Yukon wilderness, a town is being built. A place for people to disappear, a fresh start from a life on the run.…
It’s not always easy to live in the hidden town of Rockton, something Detective Casey Duncan knows firsthand. Tucked away…
Arthur Beauchamp, after a successful and much-lauded career at the criminal bar, is now retired to Garibaldi Island. His…
In Three for Trinity, the third book in the Sebastian Synard Mystery series, offbeat humour meets suspense as a nefarious…
Nothing exciting ever happens on Darby's Island, Newfoundland. That is until one summer afternoon in 1975 when a Chevy towing…
Detective Casey Duncan has noticed fewer and fewer residents coming in to the hidden town of Rockton, and no extensions…
Crime has never been so funny. A corpse, a goat yoga disaster, a spitting llama, a mechanical bull gone berserk, and an…
Into a tenuous calm left behind by the War in the Woods-which pitted environmentalists against loggers, and resulted in…
ebastian Synard is back. It’s the off-season, and the Newfoundland tour guide introduced in One for the Rock has crossed…
Every season in Rockton seems to bring a new challenge. At least that's what Detective Casey Duncan has felt since she decided…
After a dinner-party clash between entrenched oil interests and liberal Hollywood insiders, only Michael and Tyrone, the…
Montreal journalist Lou Sabatino, under witness protection after nearly being gunned down by the Mafia, is sucked into the…
The secret town of Rockton has seen some tough times lately; understandable considering its mix of criminals and victims…
After retiring from a long career in accounting, Abby Foster expects a peaceful life, but those plans vanish when she and…
When Zoe and her teenage daughter discover an ice-covered corpse at her boss’s mountain chalet, ex-Mountie Lacey McCrae…
The longer Oliver Brady stays in town, the more people seem to die around him. When evidence begins piling up that someone…
Casey and her fellow Rockton sheriff’s deputy Will chase a cabin-fevered resident into the woods, where they are stranded…
Everything is going well for Arthur Beauchamp in his early middle age. Life is so good for the top-notch defence lawyer…
Casey Duncan is a homicide detective with a secret: when she was in college, she killed a man. She was never caught, but…
Unable to just let his job go completely, Reid unwisely takes an assignment on his way north to investigate police corruption…
When gold is found in the mountains of Canada, it brings a rush of prospectors, pilots, and men looking to get rich quick.…
Edie Kiglatuk works as a summer school teacher in the Canadian arctic. When one of her female students is found dead in…
In Charlotte MacLeod’s A Dismal Thing to Do, Janet Rhys is thrust into a fight for survival after witnessing a truck crash…
RCMP Sergeant Booker Kennison knows more dirt than an officer should and has been exiled by his superiors to duty in Yellowknife.…
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a suspicious…
The sparsely populated Arctic is no stranger to murder. The fourth in the Meg Harris series follows Meg’s adventures into…
In the third action-packed thriller of the West Quebec series, Meg Harris is back more determined than ever to fight against…
Belle Palmers old high-school boyfriend rents a property on her road. Zoologist Gary Myers is studying the behaviour of…
A young Québécoise sneaks off to meet her Algonquin lover in an isolated hunting camp on the Migiskan Reserve. Five days…
Northern Ontario realtor Belle Palmer is showing the lakefront mansion of a prominent businesswoman when she discovers the…
Autumn has arrived in Algonquin Bay, and with it an unusual spate of suicides. The most shocking yet is Cardinal’s wife…
According to detective John Cardinal, the truly diabolical thing about blackflies is their stealthy silence; there is no…
In the quiet Canadian town of Algonquin Bay, a frozen body has been found in an abandoned mine shaft. She is soon identified…
In the remote wilderness of West Quebec, where trees outnumber people a million to one and lakes a thousand to one, Death’s…
A gruesome discovery in the wilderness north of Algonquin Bay leads detectives John Cardinal and Lisa Delorme to a remote…
Seven-year-old Matthew disappears in Depression-era Saskatchewan, followed by other children. A strange man named Abram…
In the sequel to Northern Winters Are Murder, it’s now high summer in Northern Ontario, where everyone is bear bait, even…
Marjorie, facing a lonely summer on her family’s Saskatchewan farm, investigates missing agricultural chemicals with neighbour…