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In 2025, Hamilton, Ontario is plagued by abductions orchestrated by criminals seeking to form a “perfect family.” Danny…
Patrick Bird, police academy burnout turned PI, works divorce cases, using his camera to catch the unfaithful and the lonely…
Jacques Rouleau has moved to Kingston to look after his father and take up the position of head of the town’s Criminal Investigations…
When a female corpse is discovered meticulously dismembered and stashed in trash bags, Temperance detects an alarming pattern…
Reid Bennett, police chief of tiny Murphy's Harbour in Canada, is looking forward to a month's vacation. He plans to spend…
Ellis Portal has resigned from solving mysteries. Or so he thinks. When a profound personal tragedy propels him into a puzzling…
On a snowy November evening in a bustling downtown doughnut shop. Gunshots erupt, and a young boy is critically injured.…
On the morning that his headline-grabbing divorce trial is set to begin, Terrance Wyler, youngest son of the Wyler Food…
Kevin Brace, Canada’s most renowned radio personality, stands in his opulent condominium doorway, bloodied hands gripping…
The fifth and final episode in Aubert's prize-winning series finds once-disgraced Toronto attorney Ellis Portal readmitted…
In this prequel to the earlier books in the series, Ellis Portal, the disgraced former judge turned sleuth, is taken back…
In this final installment of the Charlie Salter mystery series, a sixty-something Salter struggles with the realities of…
Disgraced former judge and uncoventional sleuth Ellis Portal is recruited by the Toronto police to catch the killer of a…
A serious of seemingly routine deaths by exposure in Toronto are revealed to have a much more sinister origin when all the…
Ellis Portal had once been an esteemed judge. Now, he lives as a vagrant in the wilderness that runs through the heart of…
In Death by Degrees, Inspector Charlie Salter investigates the murder of a dean at Bathurst Community College, a case that…
Charlie Salter investigates the murder of actor Alec Hunter, who was found dead in a sleazy hotel. The investigation reveals…
Final Cut by Eric Wright follows Inspector Charlie Salter as he investigates a film set plagued by sabotage, including a…
Special Affairs Inspector Charlie Salter and Chief Investigator Sergeant Mel Pickett are tasked with the sensitive murder…
Inspector Charlie Salter investigates a string of anonymous threatening letters sent to Yorkville merchants, a case that…
In The Man Who Changed His Name, Inspector Charlie Salter investigates the murder of Nancy Cowell, a woman who met her killer…
In "Smoke Detector," Inspector Charlie Salter investigates the death of an antiques dealer who died in a fire later proven…
Inspector Charlie Salter, a detective with the Toronto Police Department, is assigned to solve the murder of Professor David…