Are our animal companions angels or demons? Our friends or our betrayers? 13 Claws, the third anthology by The Mesdames of Mayhem contains 17 animal crime stories by established, critically acclaimed authors as well as three tales (pun intended) by newcomers to the genre.
A timid travel editor, opera and Greece: Part mystery, part romance, part ghost story, and wholly entertaining.
The detectives are frenetic, the villains are diabolic, the situations bounce from hilarious to macabre, and the pace is always unrelenting in this collection by a master crafter of the genre.
Foiling a kidnap plot leads Maddie to an undercover gig in a Gilded Age NYC mansion, up against her most ruthless enemy yet.
Comedy, suspense and noir: seven gripping stories and two novellas by Arthur Ellis and Derringer finalist, M. H. Callway
My ex-husband’s hiding inches away from my new boyfriend and there's a murdered man in rigour on the floor beside me. Buzzkill.
In 1977 Toronto, eighteen-year-old Johnny Wong tries to save his chaotic family and their Chinese restaurant from debt, by invoking the spirit of Bruce Lee and selling weed with deliveries. All this while juggling a first love, high school, and uncovering sordid family secrets.
Standalone sequel to Letters From Johnny
An aspiring tycoon partners with a racketeer to build a jukebox that makes millions, then takes the fall for the largest money laundering scheme in history.
🏆 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.
With a murderer on the loose in Santaland, April sets out to find the uncorked culprit before any auld acquaintances should be forgot . . . or worse.
April Claus’s first Christmas in Santaland might be her last-unless she unmasks a villain with a killer Christmas wish. . . .
Twelve 'killer' tales, each connected with one month of the year. Readers of Ace's two series will finally discover how Cait Morgan met Bud Anderson, and how the women of the WISE Enquiries Agency got together.
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