The first three novels in the series The ABC Files are collected here.
Relegated to desk duty, Detective Chantal Pouliot seizes a cyber-crime case—only to land in a deadly game where murder, betrayal, and her past collide.
🏆 Winner – BEST CRIME NOVELLA – Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence 2022
A charming coming of age story wrapped around a murder, a betrayal and a national crisis.
Eleven-year-old Johnny tries to make sense of a murder, an absent father, and the FLQ Crisis through heart and humour-filled letters to hockey legend Dave Keon.
When Thousand Islands bookstore owner Shelby Cox finds a body wedged between her houseboat and the dock, her sleuthing leads to the crime scene on Blye Island, site of her bookstore and the last spot the victim was seen. With too many suspects, it could lead to a deadly last chapter for the determined sleuth.
A box goes missing in the state archives, and no one is entirely sure of its contents. The police aren’t interested in investigating the case. A young journalist looking into its disappearance is struggling to recover from his last article, which caused a scandal at his newspaper. He is paired up with a senior journalist who is not well-liked in the organization. As they start investigating the disappearance of the box, they quickly realize that it is connected to other incidents—one with deadly consequences. As they start getting closer to the truth, they find that no one wants the contents to be made public. They are unsure of whom to trust, and the story has the makings of a deep-rooted conspiracy. Help and resistance both come from unlikely sources. Any action they take will have profound personal consequences for the people involved and create a nationwide uproar. In the midst of an election, there are too many powerful forces working against them. They must decide how far they want to go and whether solving the mystery of the missing papers is worth the price and the risks.
Death from drug overdose at the local high school leads Cameron and Carroll to investigate a sailing ship for at-risk teens.
When the man responsible for killing Detective Amanda Steele’s family is found murdered, she can’t keep away from the case.
Like 20 years before, a girl has disappeared in Riverview. What did the two have in common, and who is the culprit?
Some secrets are worth killing to protect...
In 1978, a horrific murder takes place in the small idyllic town of Callipur, India. The murder and a string of robberies have the town on edge. The mystery baffles the police department and the young officer who is desperately searching for the truth. In Shankar Sen's first case, each turn and clue seems to lead to a dead end. The young man who was killed is well-liked and has no enemies. Is it a robbery gone wrong? Or is there something sinister going on that someone is trying to hide? As the young detective steadfastly investigates the mystery, he finds that he cannot always rely on his own department. But he gets help from an unlikely source. As the investigation heads towards its conclusion, more secrets are revealed, and uncovering the truth may not necessarily mean getting justice.
The seventh book in the national bestselling Lighthouse Library series by Vicki Delany writing under the name of Eva Gates
Pat Tierney ventures into uncharted waters when she purchases her own business, and finds herself swimming with sharks.
When a crisis explodes at New York City Hall, it’s up to the NYPD Hostage Negotiation Team to save the hostages lives.
Augusta (Gus) Monet is living an aimless existence with her grifter boyfriend when she inherits her great-grandmother’s house. Ditching her boyfriend, Gus returns home. Her inheritance turns out to be a dilapidated house and an old dog named Levi. While combing through her great grandmother’s possessions, Gus stumbles across an old trunk filled with long-lost childhood belongings. Inside, she discovers cold case files that belonged to her mother, a disgraced police detective who died in a car accident when Gus was eight. Gus remembers her mother obsessing over these documents and photographs. As her own obsession grows, she inadvertently stirs up the evils of the past, putting her life in danger. Undeterred, Gus is committed to uncovering long-buried secrets, including the secrets surrounding a missing geology student, the young ballerina in the Polaroid, a prominent family’s devastating legacy, and a toxic blast that blew an entire town off the map.
Cait Morgan's in Jamaica, facing an impossible locked-room murder, a treasure hunt, and deadly secret-service shenanigans.
What would you risk to save a friend? A massage therapist obsessed by patterns must use his condition to stop a deadly nurse.
Retired judge Hamish Cameron becomes a sleuth when his friend in a retirement home dies suddenly.
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