Can a burned out lawyer with a drinking problem figure out who killed Auntie Freda? PJ Donison’s Death Comes For Christmas is a soft-boiled whodunnit with a smart female sleuth.
Two bodies, days apart, prove more than alpacas are breeding in Grant’s Crossing. Murder is propagating, too.
The sixteen short stories in Crime Wave 2: Women of a Certain Age range from light-hearted to heart-breaking, and from romantic to treacherous.
In Crime Wave 2, "The Air Affair," a short story of sleuths of a certain age, set in the Mysterious Devices steampunk world.
Claire trips on murdered man while guiding a tour to the Yorkshire country. Her tourists are shocked, but dangerously curious.
In a formerly-grand haunted hotel a woman must rely on her infamous hitman father’s lessons in survival after a body is found.
Murder, Mystery and Truffles, set on Vancouver Island. Emma Everett new to the Island trying to forget her past love.
When murder strikes, you’d better know
Who’s friend?
Who’s foe?
The first three novels in the series The ABC Files are collected here.
A timid travel editor, opera and Greece: Part mystery, part romance, part ghost story, and wholly entertaining.
🏆 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.
Death from drug overdose at the local high school leads Cameron and Carroll to investigate a sailing ship for at-risk teens.
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.
Retired judge Hamish Cameron becomes a sleuth when his friend in a retirement home dies suddenly.
Criminals arrive in Lamb's Bay just before Christmas bringing murder and mayhem in their wake.
Claire expected her hostess to be boring, not dead. A body in the pavilion is too much reality for tour guide Claire Barclay.
A honeymoon in Puerto Vallarta is a very Edmonton thing to do. Murder is a very Randy Craig thing. Combine and stir.
Who knew that the elderly knitters at a Christmas craft fair would take their rivalry so far that someone could die?
For Charlie Hillier, a posting to Cuba could be the perfect place to start his new life - if he survives it
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