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Anthony Bidulka, Stain of the Berry: A Russell Quant Mystery Everyone has their Boogeyman. But who – or what – is scaring Saskatoon locals to death? Private detective Russell Quant falls into a nightmare case when the family of a suicide victim hires him to uncover the real cause of death. Quant works to narrow his list of suspects, only to find the number of victims growing. From Saskatchewan’s summer storms to the menacing Lotus Land of Vancouver, Russell finally touches down in the Canadian Arctic where tragic hope resides. As Quant penetrates the truth of the Boogeyman, he finds himself on a perilous suspension bridge between idyllic childhood and grown-up violence. |
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Giles Blunt, By the Time You Read This: A John Cardinal Mystery Autumn is gorgeous in Algonquin Bay, but this year its beauty is tinged with something sinister. A young girl appears in a series of unspeakable photos being traded online among sexual predators, and background elements indicate she may live in Algonquin Bay. Sgt. Lise Delorme has to find the girl before she suffers more abuse. Delorme’s partner, John Cardinal, can’t help her because he has suffered a loss so devastating that his colleagues fear for his sanity. As Delorme closes in on one predator, Cardinal receives a string of menacing letters and finds himself tracking a killer so ingenious that the accepted bounds of criminal justice do not apply. |
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Ron
Chudley, Dark Resurrection
Elizabeth and Tom Drummond are
living quietly in Mill Bay, BC, when their tranquil existence is
disrupted by a singular event. Out of the ashes of 9/11, borne
by person believed long dead, come riches beyond anyone's
wildest dreams. But with the wealth comes danger
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lies, secrets, insidious temptation, and relentless pursuit by a
grim figure whose motives may be a lot darker than justice.
Fear, guilt and loyalty mean that
Elizabeth and Tom are on their own. All they desire, finally, is
to be rid of the dreadful fortune...and to survive the
attentions of those who would be rid of them.
Praise
for Ron's first mystery, Old Bones:
"A moody pyschological novel with a series of finely drawn
characters" –
Globe and Mail |
Trade paperback TouchWood Editions ISBN: 978-1-894898-48-5 October 2006 $12.95
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Emma Cole, Every Secret Thing
When an elderly man offers to tell her about an old murder,
journalist Kate Murray is too busy to listen...until he mentions her
grandmother. But she never hears the rest of Andrew Deacon's tale.
His sudden death draws her into an investigation, uncovering secrets
about the grandmother she thought she knew, and a man she never
did. Only a few people are still alive who know the story, and Kate
soon realizes her questions are putting them in danger. Stalked by
an unknown and sinister enemy, Kate must find the answers from the
past in order to have a future.
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Trade paperback Allison & Busby ISBN: 0-7490-8147-3 October 2006 $24.95
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Donna Carrick, The Noon God Living in the shadow of greatness can be difficult. Just ask Desdemona. When her father, the renowned writer J. Caesar Fortune, is found murdered inside the Faculty of Arts building, there is no shortage of people who carried a grudge. In a household pummeled by the dual forces of addiction and narcissism, Desdemona must face the fact that her father has hurt those closest to him. Now, as the new head of a once illustrious family, she must do whatever is necessary to save her only living sister from the far-reaching influence of an immortal. Praise for Donna’s first mystery: “In Gold and Fishes, author Donna Carrick pens an exciting blend of murder, mystery, disaster and rescue….” – New York Times best-selling author Ellen Tanner Marsh |
Trade paperback BookSurge Publishing ISBN: 1419641867 October 2006 US$12.99 |
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Terry Carroll, Body Contact When Tracy Hewitt goes missing, police officer and amateur goalie Carl North has enormous difficulty believing team-mate Rick Hewitt might be guilty of murdering his wife. North sets out to discover the truth behind her disappearance, risking his marriage, his job, and his life, as the trail through a small Ontario city’s politics leads inexorably toward shocking revelations. Men with power aren’t about to give it up, particularly when some of them have their own unhealthy secrets. “Perversion and violence behind the façade of a small Ontario town.” – Lion Sharzer
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Trade paperback The Mercury Press ISBN: 978-1-551281-26-1 November 2006 $16.95 (US$13.95)
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William Deverell, April Fool As this sequel to Trial of Passion opens, Arthur is married to Margaret, happily – except she is 50 feet up on a platform on an old-growth Douglas fir, saving the rain forest. Meantime, Arthur must journey to Vancouver to defend his long-time and quirkily engaging client, Nick (the Owl) Faloon, ex-jewel thief (once ranked number seven in the world), accused of murdering an attractive Ann Landerish pop-therapist. April Fool (hardcover edition released last October) won the 2006 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel. |
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W.G. Eggleton, Murder Makes Mischief What looks like an accidental mass poisoning at a local bank is quickly shown to be a cover for murder. The victim is Cynthia Harmon, a woman who enjoyed making enemies. No one shows much concern with the details of her death. In fact, it is an acceptable solution to many a person’s problem. That changes as the investigation progresses and secrets are exposed. The first is missing money: an embezzlement that leads to suicide – or does it? Along the way, relationships end, change, and maybe start. It’s hard to know what to do when anyone could be the murderer. All of which becomes irrelevant when a third body shows up. Only then do the shadows from long ago lead to the truth.
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Trade paperback Trafford Publishing ISBN: 1-4251-0664-1 December 2006 Price: TBA
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Stan Evans,
Seaweed on Ice
In Seaweed on Ice, an elderly
Jewish immigrant disappears. An old blind woman is murdered.
Valuable art stolen from German Jews during the Second World War
shows up for sale in Canada's auction houses, and the word on the
street is that collectors are planning to loot a
priceless aboriginal site. Unravelling these mysteries becomes a
life and death quest for Coast Salish detective Silas Seaweed, for
when investigations leads him to a certain beautiful lady, it's just
possible that she is a ruthless killer.
Praise for Stan's first mystery, Seaweed on the Street: "Makes great use of West Coast aboriginal mythology and religion...let's hope Silas Seaweed returns." – Globe and Mail |
Trade paperback TouchWood Editions ISBN: 978-1-894898-51-6 October 2006 $12.95
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Rick Gadziola, Drawing Dead: A Jake Morgan Mystery Jake Morgan just can’t seem to win. In Drawing Dead, the Las Vegas poker dealer falls for vice cop Laura Bulloch. However, while Morgan appreciates her bar-brawling and martial arts skills, he has a difficult time warming to her S&M fetishes. Subsequently, she gets him caught in the crossfire between two groups of dirty cops out to kill each other as he tries to help her stay alive. The attempts on his life seem to multiply as he gets closer to what he prays is not the ugly truth. Could he be on the wrong side? When he tries to walk away from Laura, Jake Morgan is placed in the crosshairs of an adversary who will not be denied. “Gadziola, himself a semipro gambler, captures an authentically seedy Vegas vibe that only the locals seem to notice. He…manages to run the table with a full house of entertaining characters.” – Booklist |
Hardcover ECW Press ISBN: 978-1-55022-738-3 October 2006 $28.95 (US$24.95) |
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Lina Gardiner, Grave Illusions New York City is in the grasp of a deadly, unseen enemy. At least, that is, unseen by normal society. Lieutenant Jess Vandermire is uniquely specialized to fight this threat. It’s her job to forge a black-ops team of men and women who wouldn’t be considered under normal circumstances. But these aren’t normal circumstances. Team members have to be tough and they have to be expendable. When Jess tells John Brittain, ex-cop and team member, the truth about herself, will he stay and fight or turn against her and not only threaten their lives, but destroy the fragile relationship developing between them?
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Trade paperback ImaJinn Books ISBN: 1-933417-95-1 November 2006 US$11.00
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Lee Goldberg, Diagnosis Murder: The Double Life When Dr. Mark Sloan wakes up in his own hospital's
I.C.U., he doesn't remember how he got there or anything from the last
two years of his life
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including a wife he doesn't recognize. He learns that he was run
down in the street while investigating a series of mysterious deaths,
all of whom were patients recently recovered from life-threatening
illnesses and accidents. Mark resumes his investigation, only to realize
that his "accident" was no accident and that there is little time left
to prevent another murder
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his own. |
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paperback Penguin/Putnam/NAL ISBN: 0451219856 November 2006 $9.99 |
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A.R.
Grobbo, Dog in a Manger: A Gloria Trevisi Mystery
All Gloria Trevisi wants is a peaceful family Christmas, as she fills the pages of the Plattsford Sun and finds the perfect gift for her perfect, but absent, mate. What she will get, however, is a series of painful needles, several threatening phone calls, uncomfortable confrontations with the past, a nasty dog bite, and the discovery of a grisly corpse or two. And the holiday edition of the Sun must hit the streets on time.... “Peace on Earth” may be in short supply, but Christmas, Plattsford style, is all wrapped up and ready to go in the second Gloria Trevisi mystery by A.R. Grobbo.
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Trade paperback & E-book Double Dragon Publishing ISBN: 1-55404-392-1 October 2006 US$20.99 (trade paperback); US$5.09 (e-book)
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Dan Kalla, Rage Therapy Dr. Joel Ashman, a young widowed psychiatrist, narrates two interwoven stories. One follows the fatal beating of his mentor Stanley Kolberg, and the other the suicide of a tragic young patient, Angela Connor. A year apart, the deaths are seemingly unrelated. But as the investigation into Kolberg's murder wades into an ugly world of sadomasochism and patient abuse, the relevance to the death of Joel's patient grows. And after the murder of a second psychiatrist, Joel realizes he is on a crash course with someone willing to do anything to conceal the past. "His first novel, Pandemic, was as fine a medical thriller as I've ever read; his newest, Rage Therapy, is a taut psychological thriller that will pull you into a world of sexual deviancy, murder, and mind games. A very good read." – Nelson DeMille, New York Times #1 best-selling author |
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Rene Natan, The Jungfrau Watch The collapse of the Soviet Union leaves two prominent members of the Red Brigades without funds, without a job, and without a cause. They both find asylum, under false identities, in Canada. One continues in his criminal activities; the other wants to make a break from his past. Years later, their paths cross again. When the prototype of the Jungfrau Watch is stolen, Alesh Sinkovich is hired to establish a fake laboratory based on the production of efficient fuel cells. Soon after a project is stolen from the lab, providing a major breakthrough. But the Red Brigades aren’t dead. Alesh Sinkovich will have to adopt drastic measures to save what’s very dear to him. |
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paperback PublishAmerica ISBN: 1-4241-3960-0 November 2006 US$18.95
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Louise Penny, Dead Cold: A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery It's winter in the idyllic Quebec village of Three Pines. Snow is gently falling and the residents are preparing their Christmas celebrations. But someone is preparing something far more sinister – murder. As Chief Inspector Gamache of the Sûreté investigates, he uncovers layers of secrets buried deep and long hidden...until now. But as he investigates, something old and cold is creeping up behind Gamache himself. Dead Cold is the second in the Armand Gamache series. The first, Still Life, won the Arthur Ellis Award in Canada and the New Blood Dagger Award in the UK, both for best first crime novel. |
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Louise Penny, Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Winner of the CWC's Arthur Ellis Award and the CWA's New Blood Dagger Award, both for best first crime novel, Still Life introduces Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and the tiny Quebec village of Three Pines. The village is so peaceful it doesn’t even have police, so when a beloved retired school teacher is killed everyone thinks it must have been a horrible hunting accident. But slowly the village gives up its secrets, some going back half a century. And soon the lovely façade begins to crumble. |
Mass market paperback Headline/McArthur & Company ISBN: 0-7553-2890-6 October 2006 $10.99 |
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Mobashar Qureshi, R.A.C.E. R.A.C.E. (Radical Association of Criminal Ethnicities) is a group on the verge of creating a new illegal drug, called Nex. When several veteran officers are sidelined by corruption charges, an error in his police file qualifies parking officer Jon Rupret for membership in an elite squad – Operation Anti-R.A.C.E. – speedily set up to stop the new drug before it can be sold on the street. Jon is partnered with jaded detective Phillip Beadsworth, who's none too thrilled with the situation. The story follows the criminals' desperate attempts to bully chemists into creating the ultimate drug, and the police, as they attempt to track them down. |
Trade paperback The Mercury Press ISBN: 978-15512-8124-7 November 2006 $16.95 (US$13.95)
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David Russell, Deadly Lessons
Winston Patrick, a successful but
dissatisfied criminal defence lawyer, thought he had left the law behind
him, trading in the courtroom for the classroom at a rough East
Vancouver high school. But soon a fellow teacher seeks his legal help
after a student threatens to expose a lurid teacher-student love affair.
Reluctantly, Winston has agreed to provide legal defense when the case
takes an uglier turn: the student is murdered. Winston and his best
friend, Detective Andrea Pearson, find themselves immersed in a murder
investigation that could cause an international incident...if it doesn't
cost Winston his own life first. |
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paperback RendezVous Press ISBN: 1-894817-35-9 October 2006 $13.95 (US$12.95)
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Michael Slade, Kamikaze Revenge is sweet… "A virtuoso breakout by Slade into another realm of creativity." – Jack Whyte, Knights of the Black and White |
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paperback Penguin Canada ISBN: 978-0-14-305327-9 October 2006 $24.00 |
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Michael Slade, Swastika Swastika embroils the Mounties, Pentagon hit men, and Nazi psychopaths in a modern puzzle concerning the long-kept secret of what crashed at Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. "Michael Slade has a reputation for conducting extensive research before beginning to write his novels, and there is much evidence of this in Swastika. The scenes in Hitler's bunker and the V2 rocket factory are so descriptive that it's difficult to know where historical fact leaves off and fiction begins. Swastika will please Slade's legion of fans and anyone who enjoys a good thriller with a historical bent." – Quill & Quire
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Mass market paperback Penguin Canada ISBN: 978-0-14-305326-2 October 2006 $10.99 |
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Sharon Wildwind, First Murder in Advent: An Elizabeth Pepperhawk/ Avivah Rosen Mystery As U.S. ground troops
withdraw from Vietnam, three stateside veterans find no peace at home.
Death and brutal winter weather surround the convent where they have
taken refuge. Caught in a curious battle, with Catholic nuns on one side
and a military think- tank on the other, they have little time to
celebrate Advent, the solemn pre-Christmas season. Will Pepper, Avivah,
and Benny manage to protect one another, find the killer, and save
themselves from the ravages of guilty consciences? |
Hardcover Five Star ISBN: 1-59414-527-X October 2006 US$25.95 |
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· Almark
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As the Plot
Thickens (Kingston,
ON)
· Chronicles
of Crime (Victoria,
BC)
· The
Mysterious Affair at Waterloo
(Waterloo, ON)
· The
Poisoned Pen
(Scottsdale, AZ)
· Prime
Crime Books (Ottawa,
ON)
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Scene
of the Crime
(St. Catharines, ON) (by appointment only)
·
Sleuth
of Baker Street
(Toronto, ON)
·
Well Read
Books
(Calgary, AB)
· Whodunit?
Mystery Bookstore
(Winnipeg, MB)
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