Colleen Baxter Sullivan, Yolk, Waldorf Publishing

Yolk is a fun, fast-paced, but ultimately suspense-filled novel filled with complex characters and a mystery that unfolds in an exciting way.

 Linwood Barclay, Chase, Puffin Canada

The Incredible Journey meets Gordon Korman's On the Run in this exciting middle-grade thriller.

 Louise Penny, Glass Houses, Minotaur Books, St. Martin’s Publishing Group

Number-one New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny shatters the conventions of the crime novel to explore what Gandhi called the court of conscience.

J.B. Cameron, Reading The Dead: Fidelis In Aeternum

A copycat killer is on the loose, emulating the murders of Detective Sarah Milton's most dangerous foe. Aided by her ghostly sidekick, the pair must battle a supernatural threat unlike anything they've experienced...

 Trine Bronken, The Bloody Business of Luck, Trine Bronken

Communications manager Kate Logan and investigative reporter Rhys Wilson, butt heads and dodge bodies to avoid being the next victims of the Provincial Lottery Corporation.

 Sandra Orchard, Over Maya Dead Body, Revell Publishing

FBI agent Serena Jones must unearth the ringleader of an antiquities smuggling ring on Martha's Vineyard before another dead body turns up.

Anna Dowdall, After the Winter, The Wild Rose Press

It's classic romantic suspense, with a spiked ending. But the wintry landscape, the secrets, the Gothic house on a hill, they're all there. Plus a curious Canadian heroine.

Jay Zendrowski, Every Breath You Take

Police Detective Tee Pepper and his partner, Rupert Wallace, use all their ingenuity as they probe deeper into the sick mind of a serial killer intent on testing them.

Junie Coffey, Beachbound. Lake Union Publishing

Living well is the best revenge...but not the only one.

 Janet Kellough, The Heart Balm Tort, Janet Kellough

Preacher Thaddeus Lewis investigates seduction, arson and murder in London, Canada West. When his granddaughter Martha is threatened by the killer, Thaddeus gets some unexpected help...