R.S. Natanevan – Fire Underneath The Ice

Revenge is supposed to be sweet, but when Michael Hamming decides to take it out on the daughter of his nemesis, the sweetness is not what he expected.

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Marcelle Dubé – On Her Trail

After five years of covering Eastern European politics, Laura returns to Canada only to run afoul of the mob. When they try to kill her over an explosive exposé, she flees to her childhood home in the Yukon… to her estranged mother who is being haunted by the ghosts of her past.

Cherish D'Angelo – Lancelot's Lady

A Bahamas holiday from dying billionaire JT Lance, a man with a dark secret, leads palliative nurse Rhianna McLellan to Jonathan, a man with his own troubled past, and Rhianna finds herself drawn to the handsome recluse, while unbeknownst to her, someone with a horrific plan is hunting her down.

Peter Clement – Lethal Practice

When ER doctor Earl Garnet discovers the hospital's Chief Administrator murdered with a cardiac needle, he immediately becomes one of the suspects. Not every doctor is skilled with a cardiac needle, and Garnet is. Attempting to clear his name by identifying the real killer, Garnet also becomes the next target. And his investigation embroils him in a sinister conspiracy that threatens his whole medical world. Medical Thriller by Peter Clement; originally published by Fawcett.

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Peter Clement – The Darkness Drops

Dr. Terry Ryder, Chief Advisor to the White House for Bioterror Preparedness, faces a lethal outbreak, the cause unknown, its symptoms so bizarre they defy diagnosis, and for which no treatment exists. He also suspects its origins may lie in his own ruthless history. Not just another virus tale, this taut, richly-plotted thriller is a complex rendering of how, in a time of disease on a scale not seen since the pandemic of 1918, the human heart has reasons that reason knows not, and the so called objective practice of science and medicine is shaped by love and loss.

 

An e-book that packs a wallop!

Grant McKenzie – Switch

How far will one man go to save the people he loves most? Two strangers trapped in the same kidnapping nightmare face their worst fears when they are challenged to destroy everything they hold dear in order to save the ones they love.

Robert Landori – Havana Harvest

Based in part on a true story, Havana Harvest follows the maneuvers of two adversarial intelligence services in their attempts to inflict maximum damage on each other as they move through a maze of high-tension suspense.

CIA operative Robert Lonsdale is tasked with determining why a captain in Fidel’s army seeks U.S. protection from a Colombian drug cartel and the Cuban secret police. Lonsdale is quickly drawn into a maelstrom of intrigue and murder from which there seems to be no escape—unless he can convince General Casas to help.

A second explosive thriller from Robert Landori

Joan Hall Hovey – Chill Waters

What if evil visited the one place where you felt most safe? "... Joan Hall Hovey has penned as good a thriller as I have ever read...a superb tale of terror and suspense that puts her right up there with the likes of Sandford and Patterson..."Ingrid Taylor for Small Press Review 

C.B. Forrest – Slow Recoil

Former Toronto detective Charlie McKelvey is puttering through the first year of his forced retirement when his life is torn wide open when a friend enlists his help in locating a recent Bosnian immigrant who has been his lover and who has simply disappeared.

When a dead female body turns up in the friend's apartment, McKelvey is a prime suspect in an increasingly obscure murder investigation.

C. B. Forrest's Weight of Stones was a 2010 Arthur Ellis Finalist for Best First Novel

Mary Jane Maffini – Closet Confidential

“Show me your closets and I’ll show you your secrets,” professional organizer and amateur sleuth Charlotte Adams likes to say. This is too true for comfort in Charlotte's latest project. As Charlotte seeks to reassure her clients that the drowning death of their daughter was not murder, the truth turns out to be quite different. And naturally, much more dangerous.

Find other novels by Mary Jane Maffini in our catalogue

Brenda Chapman – In Winter's Grip

The last thing Maja Cleary wanted was to be drawn back to her childhood home in the depths of a snowy Minnesota winter, but news of her father's murder and her brother Jonas's arrest force her from the safe world she has so carefully constructed for herself in Ottawa. A killer is on the prowl in Duved Cove and somewhere in Maja's troubled past lies the trigger.

  

Catherine Astolfo – Seventh Fire

The fourth and final installment of the Emily Taylor Mysteries.

Emily and her husband, Langford, travel back, both in place and time, to the site of their dark and mysterious past; a past that twisted their ordinary lives into horror and pain. Along the journey to prove Langford’s innocence, they uncover an appalling secret that threatens their lives once more, and this time, the attack may be fatal.

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Elizabeth J. Duncan - The Cold Light of Mourning

Arthur Ellis Finalist: Best First Novel

The Welsh town of Llanelen is shocked when posh bride Meg Wynne Thompson goes missing on her wedding day. The last person believed to have seen her is manicurist Penny Brannigan, an expatriate Canadian. With her new friend, Victoria, Penny sets out to find the killer.

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Children of the Morning

Anthony Bidulka - Aloha, Candy Hearts

Arthur Ellis Finalist: Best Novel

From Pacific to Prairie, a teasing treasure hunt turns into a frightening game of cat and mouse. P.I. Russell Quant is plunged into the vagaries of a shocking hometown murder and the blasphemous blackmail of one of the literary world's most esteemed writers.

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High ChicagoHoward Shrier - High Chicago

2010 Arthur Ellis Award Winner: Best Novel

Toronto investigator Jonah Geller has opened his own agency, World Repairs, with best friend and partner Jenn Raudsepp. Asked to investigate the apparent suicide of a young woman, they’re drawn into the high-stakes world of construction and development on a long-neglected parcel of Toronto’s waterfront.

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