Books from Ontario
Discover stories set in the beautiful province of Ontario
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Explore books that are set in or connected to Ontario. These stories showcase the unique landscapes, culture, and spirit of this Canadian province.
Books Set in Ontario (28)
After weeks of torture at the hands of Syria's secret police, the bombing of his villa in the ancient city of Aleppo, and…
According to detective John Cardinal, the truly diabolical thing about blackflies is their stealthy silence; there is no…
When centenarian Senator Miles “The Tank” Valentine meets an electrifying end at his own resort, Highclere Inn & Carriage…
Autumn has arrived in Algonquin Bay, and with it an unusual spate of suicides. The most shocking yet is Cardinal’s wife…
A year after the death of his beloved but troubled wife Catherine, John has moved into a new, but very humid, condo. He…
Born Kathleen to an immigrant Irish farming family in southern Ontario, Kit McNair has been a troublesome changeling since,…
A gruesome discovery in the wilderness north of Algonquin Bay leads detectives John Cardinal and Lisa Delorme to a remote…
Ellis Portal has resigned from solving mysteries. Or so he thinks. When a profound personal tragedy propels him into a puzzling…
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…
In the quiet Canadian town of Algonquin Bay, a frozen body has been found in an abandoned mine shaft. She is soon identified…
Ellis Portal had once been an esteemed judge. Now, he lives as a vagrant in the wilderness that runs through the heart of…
Zilla Trott is pouring her cat some chamomile tea when the drifter appears in her kitchen. He is grubby and crude—not at…
Anyone growing up in Lobelia Falls is taught to learn the elegant, ancient, and occasionally deadly art of shooting with…
When Jenson Thorbisher-Freep announces an amateur theatrical contest, the women in the Grub-and-Stake gardening club race…
The Grub-and-Stakers gardening club has traditionally limited its activities to serving tea and gossiping about wildflowers,…
When word gets out that Dittany Monk, the sleuthing gardener of Lobelia Falls, is expecting twins, every knitter in town…
When talented interior designer Minna Halonen returns to her idyllic northern hometown after decades away, she's ready for…
In this prequel to the earlier books in the series, Ellis Portal, the disgraced former judge turned sleuth, is taken back…
Vernard ‘Get’ McGetty is back from serving in Afghanistan, back dealing drugs in Detroit and looking to move up with his…
The fifth and final episode in Aubert's prize-winning series finds once-disgraced Toronto attorney Ellis Portal readmitted…
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…
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…
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…
Epidemic investigator Dr. Zol Szabo and his team are called to a panic’stricken high school in the heart of Ontario’s tobacco…
Nicole Patterson is a young, green and very eager probationary constable with the Ontario Provincial Police. Although she…