Small Town Books

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Small Town Books (34)

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Widows and Orphans

by Elizabeth Renzetti, Kate Hilton

Part of: Quill & Packet Mystery

Ontario

Small Town

Journalist Cat Conway is looking forward to an easy assignment covering a major wellness and self-actualization summit at…

Maude Kirby has recently been dumped by her diplomat husband and has returned to her quirky hometown of West Elk, BC, to…

Maggie, a mediocre angler, is escaping burnout by way of fly fishing. When dead bodies start popping up in her river, she…

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Three Bengal Kittens

by Philipp Schott

Part of: Dr. Bannerman Vet Mysteries

Manitoba

Small Town

In the fourth book in the series, Dr. Peter Bannerman’s brother Sam takes in three Bengal kittens after the previous owner,…

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Ice Box

by Lisa Adair

Part of: Glenmere Box Mysteries

Saskatchewan

Small Town

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

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Bury the Lead

by Elizabeth Renzetti, Kate Hilton

Part of: Quill & Packet Mystery

Ontario

Small Town

A big-city journalist joins the staff of a small-town paper in cottage country and finds a community full of secrets … and…

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Eleven Huskies

by Philipp Schott

Part of: Dr. Bannerman Vet Mysteries

Manitoba

Small Town

Peter Bannerman, veterinarian and amateur detective, deserves a summer vacation. Peter and his family head to a remote fishing…

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Six Ostriches

by Philipp Schott

Part of: Dr. Bannerman Vet Mysteries

Manitoba

Small Town

It’s springtime in rural Manitoba, and the snow has finally left the exotic animal farm when an ostrich finds and swallows…

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The Puzzle Box

by Lisa Adair

Part of: Glenmere Box Mysteries

Saskatchewan

Small Town

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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Fifty-Four Pigs

by Philipp Schott

Part of: Dr. Bannerman Vet Mysteries

Manitoba

Small Town

Peter is an odd duck, obsessed with logic and measurable facts, an obsession he puts to good use in his veterinary practice.…

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Why the Rock Falls

by J. E. Barnard

Part of: The Falls Mysteries

Alberta

Small Town

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

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Where the Ice Falls

by J. E. Barnard

Part of: The Falls Mysteries

Alberta

Small Town

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

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When the flood falls

by J. E. Barnard

Part of: The Falls Mysteries

Alberta

Small Town

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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Cod Only Knows

by Hilary MacLeod

Part of: The Shores Mysteries

Prince Edward Island

Small Town

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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Frost Bite

by Nelson Brunanski

Part of: Small-Town Saskatchewan Mysteries

Saskatchewan

Small Town

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

Small Town

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

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Burnt Out

by Nelson Brunanski

Part of: Small-Town Saskatchewan Mysteries

Saskatchewan

Small Town

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

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Something fishy

by Hilary MacLeod

Part of: The Shores Mysteries

Prince Edward Island

Small Town

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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A Dismal Thing to Do

by Charlotte MacLeod

Part of: Madoc and Janet Rhys Mysteries

New Brunswick

Small Town

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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The Wrong Rite

by Charlotte MacLeod

Part of: Madoc and Janet Rhys Mysteries

New Brunswick

Small Town

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

Small Town

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

Small Town

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

Small Town

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

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The Grub-And-Stakers Pinch a Poke

by Charlotte MacLeod

Part of: Grub-and-Stakers

Ontario

Small Town

When Jenson Thorbisher-Freep announces an amateur theatrical contest, the women in the Grub-and-Stake gardening club race…

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The Grub-and-Stakers House a Haunt

by Charlotte MacLeod

Part of: Grub-and-Stakers

Ontario

Small Town

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

Small Town

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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Mind Over Mussels

by Hilary MacLeod

Part of: The Shores Mysteries

Prince Edward Island

Small Town

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

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Revenge of the lobster lover

by Hilary MacLeod

Part of: The Shores Mysteries

Prince Edward Island

Small Town

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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Crooked Lake

by Nelson Brunanski

Part of: Small-Town Saskatchewan Mysteries

Saskatchewan

Small Town

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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Trouble in the Brasses

by Charlotte MacLeod

Part of: Madoc and Janet Rhys Mysteries

British Columbia, New Brunswick

Small Town

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

The tiny New Brunswick village was a lifetime away from the world of a New York fashion model, but a freak accident had…

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The Grub-and-Stakers Quilt a Bee

by Charlotte MacLeod

Part of: Grub-and-Stakers

Ontario

Small Town

The Grub-and-Stakers gardening club has traditionally limited its activities to serving tea and gossiping about wildflowers,…

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The Grub-And-Stakers Move a Mountain

by Charlotte MacLeod

Part of: Grub-and-Stakers

Ontario

Small Town

Anyone growing up in Lobelia Falls is taught to learn the elegant, ancient, and occasionally deadly art of shooting with…