Mysteries set in Ontario
Discover mystery stories set in the beautiful province of Ontario
Books Set in Ontario (39)
When talented interior designer Minna Halonen returns to her idyllic northern hometown after decades away, she's ready for…
The Split Pea Tango
by Josh Hellyer
Part of: Highclere Inn & Carriage House Mysteries
Humor, Mystery
When the “Society for Transcendent Understanding of Past-Life Identification and Discovery” rolls into town, Mason Valentine…
When centenarian Senator Miles “The Tank” Valentine meets an electrifying end at his own resort, Highclere Inn & Carriage…
Born Kathleen to an immigrant Irish farming family in southern Ontario, Kit McNair has been a troublesome changeling since,…
After weeks of torture at the hands of Syria's secret police, the bombing of his villa in the ancient city of Aleppo, and…
Ellis Portal has resigned from solving mysteries. Or so he thinks. When a profound personal tragedy propels him into a puzzling…
Epidemic investigator Dr. Zol Szabo and his team are called to a panic’stricken high school in the heart of Ontario’s tobacco…
Zilla Trott is pouring her cat some chamomile tea when the drifter appears in her kitchen. He is grubby and crude—not at…
When Jenson Thorbisher-Freep announces an amateur theatrical contest, the women in the Grub-and-Stake gardening club race…
When word gets out that Dittany Monk, the sleuthing gardener of Lobelia Falls, is expecting twins, every knitter in town…
The High, a band with a few hit songs in the late 1970s, have reunited to play the nostalgia circuit at casinos. But for…
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…
In an affluent city perched on Ontario’s Niagara Escarpment, residents begin turning up on the pathologist’s autopsy table…
Though Zol and his team have investigated every centimetre of Camelot Lodge, a residence for healthy seniors blessed with…
A year after the death of his beloved but troubled wife Catherine, John has moved into a new, but very humid, condo. He…
Vernard ‘Get’ McGetty is back from serving in Afghanistan, back dealing drugs in Detroit and looking to move up with his…
According to detective John Cardinal, the truly diabolical thing about blackflies is their stealthy silence; there is no…
Autumn has arrived in Algonquin Bay, and with it an unusual spate of suicides. The most shocking yet is Cardinal’s wife…
In the quiet Canadian town of Algonquin Bay, a frozen body has been found in an abandoned mine shaft. She is soon identified…
The fifth and final episode in Aubert's prize-winning series finds once-disgraced Toronto attorney Ellis Portal readmitted…
A gruesome discovery in the wilderness north of Algonquin Bay leads detectives John Cardinal and Lisa Delorme to a remote…
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…
A serious of seemingly routine deaths by exposure in Toronto are revealed to have a much more sinister origin when all the…
Disgraced former judge and uncoventional sleuth Ellis Portal is recruited by the Toronto police to catch the killer of a…
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…
While vacationing with his family on Prince Edward Island, Toronto Detective Inspector Charlie Salter finds himself assisting…
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…
Anyone growing up in Lobelia Falls is taught to learn the elegant, ancient, and occasionally deadly art of shooting with…
The Grub-and-Stakers gardening club has traditionally limited its activities to serving tea and gossiping about wildflowers,…
In The Man Who Changed His Name, Inspector Charlie Salter investigates the murder of Nancy Cowell, a woman who met her killer…
Death in the Old Country is a mystery novel by Eric Wright featuring Toronto Police Inspector Charlie Salter. While vacationing…
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…