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Crime Fiction |
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- Lou Allin
- That Dog Won’t Hunt
- Orca Book Publishers
- ISBN 9781554693399
- October 2010
- Paperback
- $9.95
A drifter takes a job at a hunting lodge in Northern Ontario, with the expectation of a big payday for the summer's work. But when the eccentric owner decides to renege on her promises, she ends up dead.
Rapid Reads (a quick read for adults)
Author’s Region: BC |
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- Lou Allin
- She Felt No Pain
- RendezVous Crime
- ISBN 978-1926607078
- October 2010
- Trade paperback
- $16.95
RCMP Corporal Holly Martin finds the corpse of a homeless man in the bush. Is there trouble in paradise?
Police Procedural
Author’s Region: BC |
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- Leslie Bendaly
- Deadly Mementos: A Detective Keith Carson and Sara Porter Mystery.
- iuniverse
- ISBN 9781450233231
- September 2
- Trade paperback
- $18.95
Sara Porter has little memory of the night the woman she hated was murdered. When she discovers her deceased aunt was involved in a murder in the 1940’s, she fears murder may run in her family. Toronto detective, Keith Carson, risks his career to prove Sara innocent and Sara risks her life to do the same for her aunt.
Author’s Region: St Maarten, Netherland Antilles and Toronto, ON. |
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- Gail Bowen
- One Fine Day You’re Gonna Die
- Orca Book Publishers
- ISBN 9781554693375
- October 2010
- Paperback
- $9.95
Events on Charlie D's radio show take a bizarre turn when one of his callers threatens to kill not only himself but also the young daughter of Charlie's on-air guest, who happens to be an expert on death and dying.
Rapid Reads (a quick read for adults)
Author’s Region: SK |
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- Ron Chudley
- Act of Evil
- TouchWood Editions
- ISBN: 978-1-926741-06-2
- September 2010
- Hardcover
- $24.95
Actor Hal Bannatyne, on Vancouver Island to shoot a big-budget film, reconnects with an old flame and her family. He soon finds himself mixed up in a conflict between the family and a land-developer. The intrigue escalates when a crooked land-development scheme leads to attempted murder. Bannatyne must stop a plot fuelled by greed in order to protect his friends and family from a true Act of Evil.
Author’s Region: Mill Bay, BC |
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- Hilary Davidson
- The Damage Done
- Tom Doherty Associates
- ISBN 9780765326973
- September 28, 2010
- Hardcover
- $28.99 (Canada); $24.99 (US)
Lily Moore, a successful travel writer, fled to Spain to get away from her troubled, drug-addicted younger sister, Claudia. But when Claudia is found dead in a bathtub on the anniversary of their mother's suicide, Lily must return to New York to deal with the aftermath. The situation shifts from tragic to baffling when the body at the morgue turns out to be a stranger's.
Sub-genre: Noir
Author’s Region: New York, NY, USA |
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- Vicki Delany
- Negative Image
- Poisoned Pen Press
- ISBN: 978-1590587881 (hardcover) 978-1590587904 (tradepaperback)
- November 2, 2010
- Hardcover/Trade Paperback/Large Print/Audio
- $24.95 (hardcover) $14.95 (tradepaperback) $22.95 (Large Print)
When his wife’s former fiancé is found dead of a single shot to the back of the head, Trafalgar Police Sergeant John Winters is forced to make the most difficult decision of his life: loyalty to his job or to his wife. Meanwhile, tragedy strikes the heart of Constable Molly Smith’s family. Fourth in the critically acclaimed series.
Author’s Region: Prince Edward County, ON
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- Vicki Delany
- Winter of Secrets: A Constable Molly Smith Mystery
- Poisoned Pen Press
- ISBN: 978-1590587812
- November 2, 2010
- Trade Paperback
- $14.95
Christmas Eve and the snowstorm of the decade has settled over the town of Trafalgar, B.C. Constable Molly Smith has a busy shift attending fender-benders, tumbling pedestrians, and Christmas tree fires. Then at the stroke of midnight a vehicle goes off the road into the frozen river. An accident, but the autopsy reveals a shocking secret.
Police Procedural
Author’s Region: Prince Edward County, ON |
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- William Deverell
- Snow Job: An Arthur Beauchamp novel
- McClelland & Stewart
- ISBN 978-0-7710-2723-9
- October 5, 2010
- $9.99
Arthur Beauchamp has followed his wife, the leader and first elected member of the Green Party, to Ottawa. When a delegation of government officials from Bhashyistan is blown sky high on Bronson Avenue and the shares of a Calgary-based oil company promptly drop like a stone, Arthur is only too happy to jump to the defence of the missing suspected assassin.
Wildly imaginative, utterly Canadian, and irresistibly funny.
Mystery & Detective
Author’s Region: BC |
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- Allan Donaldson
- The Case Against Owen Williams
- Nimbus Publishing
- 978-155109-776-3
- Paperback
- $19.95
Allan Donaldson’s first novel, Maclean, was shortlisted for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Donaldson’s new novel is a literary mystery set in the fictional town of Wakefield, New Brunswick, against the backdrop of the Second World War. The Case Against Owen Williams explores the potential for wrongful conviction and the gaps in the justice system that allow it to flourish.
Author’s Region: Fredericton, New Brunswick |
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- Sandy Frances Duncan and George Szanto
- Always Kiss the Corpse on Whidbey Island
- TouchWood Editions
- ISBN 978-1-926741-05-5
- September 2010
- Hardcover
- $24.95
Whidbey Island Hospital nurse Sandro Vasiliadis supposedly died of a heroin overdose. At the funeral viewing, his mother shrieks, "That's not Sandro!" Convinced that her son must still be alive, she hires Kyra and Noel of Islands Investigations International. As the investigators encounter hesitant friends and secretive family, the old adage comes clear: one can't solve the mystery of a death, without first understanding the life.
Author’s Region: Gabriola Island, BC |
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- Don Gutteridge
- Turncoat
- July 2010
- Touchstone
- ISBN-10:1439163693
- ISBN-13:9781439163696
- Paperback
- $19.99
1836, Ensign Marc Edwards, of His Majesty’s 24th Regiment of Foot, wants adventure. Unfortunately he’s posted to the backwater of Toronto. Marc learns that the locals are chafing under British Rule, and the countryside is a hotbed of Reformers, Yankees and smugglers. He finds another kind of action. Seduced by one farmer’s wife, and entranced by another, Edwards’ skills and loyalty to the Crown are put to the test.
Author’s Region: ON |
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- Donald Hauka
- She Demons
- Dundurn Press
- 978-1-55488-736-7
- Paperback
- $11.99
How can an enterprising newspaper reporter sell his Babji dolls when there’s a beheaded street youth, a Rave Messiah battling a berserk “God Squad,” and a conniving new editor to deal with? Hakeem Jinnah is back and as politically incorrect as ever. The chain-smoking, headline-chasing hypochondriac is in a race to find a killer and help save his buddy Sergeant Graham’s career.
Author’s Region: New Westminster, BC |
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- Roy Innes
- Murder in the Chilcotin
- NeWest Press
- ISBN-10: 1897126697
- ISBN-13: 978-189712669
- October 9, 2010
- Paperback
The third book in Roy Innes’ mystery series sends RCMP Inspector Coswell and the newly promoted Sergeant Blakemore to the district of West Caribou, BC. Here the murder of a neophyte Mountie, the son of a local rancher, threatens to ignite racial conflicts that have been simmering in the region ever since 1885, when five First Nations men were hanged for treason.
Author’s Region: BC |
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- Mike Knowles
- In Plain Sight
- ECW Press
- ISBN: 1-55022-948-6
- October 2010
- Hardcover
- $24.95 CAD
A random car accident destroys everything and puts Wilson into the crosshairs again, but this time the gun is in the hands of a cop. Justice isn’t blind in the city; it’s as bent as the tip of a bullet. Dirty cops are using Wilson as bait and the only way for him to stay out of cuffs is to help put someone worse in them. Wilson picks a fight with the Russian mob and lures both cops and robbers into his own trap. Everyone is crooked in the city, but not everyone is a survivor.
Hardboiled
Author’s Region: ON |
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- Robert Landori
- Havana Harvest
- Emerald Books, USA
- ISBN: 978-1-934572-55-9
- September 1, 2010
- Trade Paperback
- $15.95
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.
Author’s Region: Quebec
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- Peter Robinson
- Bad Boy: An Inspector Banks Mystery
- McClelland & Stewart
- 978-0-7710-7612-1
- September 18, 2010
- Hardcover
- $29.99
Things go very wrong when the police swoop down on a home in Eastvale to seize a reported handgun. In the confusion, Patrick Doyle, a former neighbour of Banks, is shot and while his daughter is in police custody, her house-mate, Tracy Banks, lets Erin's boyfriend know that the police have been around. When Banks returns home from holiday, Tracy is missing. And that's not the worst of it.
Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural
Author’s Region: UK |
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- Robin Spano
- Dead Politician Society
- ECW Press
- ISBN: 978-1550229837 (trade paperback) & 978-1550229424 (hardcover)
- September 1, 2010
- Hardcover & trade paperback (simultaneous releases)
- $14.95 (trade paper) & $24.95 (hardcover)
After the mayor falls down dead during a speech, a clandestine student society claims credit for his demise. Clare Vengel is given her first undercover assignment: to pose as a student and penetrate the society. Can she keep the world safe for politicians? Does anyone care?
Undercover detective
Author’s Region: Vancouver, BC
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Crime Nonfiction: “Just the facts, ma’am.” |
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Young Adult/Juvenile... Suitable for family viewing |
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en francais... la passion pour le crime |
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Short Crime Fiction... bite sized bits of murder and mayhem |
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- Alison Bruce
- “Legacy”, Canadian Voices Volume 2
- Bookland Press, Toronto
- ISBN 978-0-9784395-8-3
- September 2010
- Trade Paperback
- $25.95
Forced to retire from police services after getting shot in the hip, Joe Garrett turned to private investigation. He had a younger partner to do the leg work for him. So, why was he tailing one of his clients on a cold wet afternoon?
Author’s Region: ON |
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E-Books... of every virtual shape |
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- Donna Carrick
- Gold And Fishes
- Carrick Publishing
- ISBN 9781419641855
- August, 2010
- Kindle Edition (Also available in paperback and hardcover)
- $7.99 US
In the midst of universal tragedy, what is the value of a single life? Canadian aid worker Ayla Harris and her team struggle to bring hope to the ruins of post-tsunami Indonesia. But when she discovers her disreputable brother-in-law is missing she sets out to find him, only to realise her own life is in terrible danger.
Author’s Region: ON |
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- Donna Carrick
- The Noon God ~ Kindle Edition
- Carrick Publishing
- ISBN 9781419641862
- August, 2010
- Kindle Edition
- $6.99 USD
Living in the shadow of greatness can be a difficult thing. Just ask Desdemona. When her father, renowned author J. Caesar Fortune, is found murdered, there is no shortage of people who carried a grudge against him. In a household pummelled by addiction and narcissism, can Desdemona save her one surviving sister from the far-reaching influence of an immortal?
Author’s Region: ON |
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