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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…
On a dark night in False Creek, a distraught young woman jumps from the Granville Bridge. PI Dave Wakeland rescues Nicola…
The body of Pastor Sandy Gardner, a TV preacher with a global following, turns up near a Halifax container pier. The mysterious…
It is the summer of 1940 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, a city that has become a bustling strategic port for the war raging in…
Detective Casey Duncan and her husband, Sheriff Eric Dalton, are entering a new chapter of life as parents to their six-month-old…
It’s 1968 and James Anderson’s twin brother Dave has just been killed in the Vietnam war. Knowing his turn is next, James…
Maggie Zito is being held for murder. The volatile single mother is accused of killing the retired leader of the notorious…
When Anya Kurchenko, a woman recently arrived in Ottawa from Ukraine, is found murdered in an obscure alleyway, the only…
When an eccentric woman is found murdered in her secluded home in the Cape Breton woods, Detective Gordie MacLean and his…
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…
The night before the long-awaited return of the Highwater Revival Music Festival, an explosion shatters the calm—and among…
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…
As a new crime unfolds, Detective Gordie MacLean finds himself drawn into a web of intrigue that will not only test his…
A heist, a town on edge, and a secret buried beneath the surface collide in this tense installment. Grave consequences await…
A new murder grips Lake Pines, and everyone is a suspect. As the investigation deepens, long‑standing tensions and hidden…
While recovering from a professional setback, documentary filmmaker Jane Duvall stays at a remote hotel during the off season…
No one knows what happened to Tabitha Sorensen. The brilliant but troubled student seems to have vanished, leaving a deadly…
Chelsea Loam vanished eleven years ago. When Vancouver PI Dave Wakeland is hired to find what happened to the missing woman,…
The mayor’s brother is missing. A transit cop lies beaten and blinded, her service weapon stolen. A new series of graffiti…
Jacques Rouleau has moved to Kingston to look after his father and take up the position of head of the town’s Criminal Investigations…
Tempe is pulled into the investigation when she examines remains from a supposed lightning strike victim in Montreal. A…
When an act of treason leaves Justin and his Arctic team stranded on the ice, they must fight for survival in a deadly battle…
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.…
One body. Several suspects. A secret capable of destroying lives. As investigators peel back layers of deception, they discover…
A shocking Prohibition-era murder in a dusty Saskatchewan border town inflames the public’s suspicions about links between…
It’s not always easy to live in the hidden town of Rockton, something Detective Casey Duncan knows firsthand. Tucked away…
After nearly thirty years behind bars for a murder he insists he didn’t commit, a man returns to Lake Pines—only for new…
A recent death threatens to unravel a carefully woven web of lies. Echoes of guilt reverberate through the town as investigators…
Stinging deaths aren't uncommon in the summertime, but when Henry Wiest turns up stung to death at an Indian reservation,…
In one moment of public violence, everything changes for Dave Wakeland. When masked men and women storm an office building…
Sidelined to administrative duties, Inspector Michael Green misses the thrill of the chase. So when his daughter Hannah,…
Detective Casey Duncan has noticed fewer and fewer residents coming in to the hidden town of Rockton, and no extensions…
Even the most innocent residents of Lake Pines carry secrets—and one of those secrets has turned lethal. As the past resurfaces,…
An unidentified victim and international secrets thrust Lake Pines into a deadly conspiracy. Investigators must navigate…
A regatta at dawn turns deadly when a body is discovered, sending shockwaves through the quiet town of Lake Pines. As secrets…
Cat hasn’t been to Montgomery Falls, the town her family founded, since she was twelve years old. Since the summer she discovered…
It’s late summer and a restless Officer Kala Stonechild has taken her foster niece, Dawn, on a canoe trip at Pine Hollow…
Unexpectedly called in to the Charlotte PD’s Cold Case Unit, Dr. Temperance Brennan wonders why she’s been asked to meet…
Every season in Rockton seems to bring a new challenge. At least that's what Detective Casey Duncan has felt since she decided…
A DNA test and a cold case collide, pulling Lake Pines into a storm of revelations. As identities are questioned and loyalties…
A haunting crime from the past resurfaces during Lake Pines’ harsh winter. As temperatures drop, tensions rise, revealing…
When ominous signs and a murder coincide, Lake Pines is thrown into chaos. A flock of crows becomes an eerie symbol as investigators…
A corpse found at Deception Bay becomes the town’s worst nightmare as clues point toward a killer who knows how to hide…
The secret town of Rockton has seen some tough times lately; understandable considering its mix of criminals and victims…
David McKenna lies dying in a Kingston hospital, his children gathered from across the country to say a final goodbye. But…
The longer Oliver Brady stays in town, the more people seem to die around him. When evidence begins piling up that someone…
Sebastian Synard doesn’t want any more trouble than he already has. But when he leads a group of tourists along the cliffs…
English teacher, mother, wife, and convicted child predator Jane Thompson has made parole and she has a plan. She begins…
Casey and her fellow Rockton sheriff’s deputy Will chase a cabin-fevered resident into the woods, where they are stranded…
In 1922, U.S. Prohibition was in full swing, and the bootlegging business was booming for Jewish-Canadian entrepreneurs…
As winter closes in and the roads snow over in Dawson City, Yukon, newly arrived journalist Jo Silver investigates the dubious…
Linda Moore's longawaited sequel to Foul Deeds is another highly engaging mix of art and environmental justice. Finally…
When Adele Delaney and her daughter Violet go missing, Jacques Rouleau is called upon to investigate. However, struggling…
When the body of a missing heiress was discovered, Temperance Brennan and Lieutenant Ryan accompanied the remains from Montreal…
Casey Duncan is a homicide detective with a secret: when she was in college, she killed a man. She was never caught, but…
In 2001, a Canadian police constable murders his girlfriend in a fit of jealous rage. When he realizes what he's done, he…
Tempe investigates the charred remains of a nun in Montreal, uncovering links to deaths at a remote Quebec monastery. The…
When a female corpse is discovered meticulously dismembered and stashed in trash bags, Temperance detects an alarming pattern…
Twenty years ago, a raw and impressionable Detective Michael Green helped convict a young professor for the murder of an…
John Lowery was declared dead in 1968—the victim of a Huey crash in Vietnam, his body buried long ago in North Carolina.…
As a teenager, Toni Murphy had a life full of typical adolescent complications: a boyfriend she adored, a younger sister…
When a distraught woman, Heather Simeon, is brought into the Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit after a suicide attempt, Nadine…
No longer on the force, Karen Grant is now working as a journalist—and one of her two sources has just been murdered in…
When his teenage daughter goes missing on a summer wilderness canoe trip to the Nahanni River, Inspector Michael Green is…
Bones Are Forever
by Kathy Reichs
Part of: Temperance Brennan
Alberta, Northwest Territories, Quebec
Suspense
Tempe begins the case in Montreal before traveling to the Northwest Territories and Alberta to track a missing woman and…
Tempe investigates skeletal remains found in the basement of a Montreal pizza restaurant. The bones point to a decades‑old…
A biker‑gang war erupts in Montreal, pulling Tempe into a violent world of outlaw motorcycle clubs. When her nephew becomes…
He may have been cleared of murder charges, but that doesn’t mean Steve Nastos’s troubles are over. Some of his former colleagues…
Until recently, Steve Nastos was a respected Toronto detective and a member of the sexual assault unit. Now he’s in custody,…
RCMP Sergeant Booker Kennison knows more dirt than an officer should and has been exiled by his superiors to duty in Yellowknife.…
At thirty-three Sara Gallagher is finally happy. Her antique furniture restoration business is taking off and she’s engaged…
Inspector Green explores a web of betrayal and deceit. In the dead of night, the phone rings in the missing persons unit…
On the day she was abducted, Annie O’Sullivan, a 32-year-old realtor, had three goals - sell a house, forget about a recent…
Kevin Brace, Canada’s most renowned radio personality, stands in his opulent condominium doorway, bloodied hands gripping…
Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef is recovering from a bad year, and a traumatic back operation that has left her in the…
An old man is found beaten to death on a street corner in Ottawa’s Byward Market. Initially, the killing appears to be a…
Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef has lived all her days in the small town of Port Dundas and is now making her way toward…
A seventeen-year-old sets out to meet her secret lover by an Ottawa waterfall. Three days later, her body washes up in the…
Inspector Green is coping with an office job, still eager to get back into the day-to-day fray of policing. His chance comes…
Jack Taggart, an undercover Mountie, lives in a world where the good guys and the bad guys change places in a heartbeat.…
Accident or suicide? That’s the simple question put to Inspector Michael Green when a derelict stranger falls to his death…
The 1919 Winnipeg General Strike is the dramatic backdrop for the third instalment of the Sam Klein Mystery Series. The…
When an old man dies a seemingly natural death in a parking lot, only Inspector Michael Green finds it suspicious. A search…
Sins of the Suffragette is set in Winnipeg during the early 20th century and follows the investigation of the murder of…
Sam Klein is a bouncer and guardian of local brothel who investigates the murder of a young girl. The number one suspect,…
Ottawa homicide inspector Michael Green is absolutely obsessed with his job, a condition which has almost ruined his marriage…
While vacationing with his family on Prince Edward Island, Toronto Detective Inspector Charlie Salter finds himself assisting…
A young woman is shot dead. Her boyfriend is the only witness but refuses to co-operate. Then he too is tortured and murdered.…
Jack Willows and Claire Parker are investigating the death of Kenny Lee, a local owner of a Chinese newspaper. He was discovered…
A blood-stained car is found, abandoned. Willows and Parker are called in to investigate a possible homicide: there is evidence…
But when you’re a cop, you’re never off the clock, and when he stumbles across the body of a young girl up in the mountains,…
"The Goldfish Bowl" by Laurence Gough is the first book in the Willows and Parker mystery series. The story follows Detective…
The Judas Conspiracy by John Ballem is a political thriller set against the backdrop of an Alberta separatist movement.…
The story follows two teenage boys who are unexpectedly drawn into a web of espionage and moral dilemmas. They find themselves…