Like 20 years before, a girl has disappeared in Riverview. What did the two have in common, and who is the culprit?
In 1918 Calgary, the police investigate the suspicious death of a man who died after drinking a glass of tainted whisky.
Clergy abuse is an explosive issue. Get inside the mind of Father John Damon, and discover what makes him tick.
Reunions can be hell, especially when a murderer returns to finish off what was started twenty years ago.
Reminiscent of Alice Munro-these stories are heart wrenching, authentic, and luminous.
~ Ginger Bolton
When danger threatens Grand Bank, will Sgt. Windflower step back into the line of fire?
Everything that happens in a yoga studio is not Zen. Sometimes it’s grand larceny. Three yogis, two cops, and one damn cute dog join forces to discover who’s stolen a Patek Philippe watch from what was supposed to be a secure locker. Time is ticking.
"He said he'd call the RCMP immediately, and that I did some good work. He also told me to get the hell away from there. I was inclined to do what he said, for once. I was standing in the middle of a downtown parking lot in someone else's bathing suit and flip-flops. And my hair was wet."
Meet Zack Virtue. He makes a lot of bad decisions. The first was to become a full-time artist. The second was to moonlight as a private investigator.
Whether it's foiling nuclear terrorists and bank robbers, or finding missing persons and beating the crap out of Russian mobsters, Virtue is on the case. As a private investigator, he's a great painter. As an artist, he's a great magnet for bullets.
Supporting him is Vijay Dhaliwal, a computer genius who throws the occasional security agency job his way. He tries to lure Virtue into the business, but our artist-turned-vet-turned-janitor-turned-artist wants nothing to do with Vijay's shenanigans. Until, of course, the money runs out.
Then there's William Lacroix, the dude-bro cop who never grew up. Kind of like Peter Pan meets Joe Friday. Virtue puts up with his attitude in exchange for access to the police.
In this collection of stories, Zack Virtue tries to navigate the seedy world of private investigation, while half-assing his way through the seedy world of professional artists.
"Blog Me Deadly" is the title story, where Virtue tries to blog his psychological issues away. He finds out quickly that even a baggage-laden artist with a highly varied skill set can become a force to be reckoned with-whether he's wielding a paintbrush or a gun.
What do a political campaign and multi-million dollar project have in common? Secrets and murder.
Three years after a devastating disappearance during a camping trip, Gus Monet and her young daughter, Bly, are drawn back to Prince Edward County when new evidence emerges that turns the cold case red hot. Searching for answers, the pair vow to expose whoever went to deadly lengths to destroy their lives. Told in the compelling voice of young Bly, this edge-of-your-seat thriller culminates in a heart-pounding, soul-crushing finale. Infused with vivid summer imagery, eerie abandoned places, and sinister small town secrets, Buried Road is the story of a young girl led ever closer to danger by her mother’s unwavering resolve to uncover the truth. Yet it’s this very resolve that might, in the end, ensure their survival.
Finding the Inca’s lost City of Gold would be the discovery of a lifetime. But failing could mean her death…
An unsolved mystery in the Archives and present day bodies piling up makes Randy question if the past isn't catching up.
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.
Welcome to Cascade, the lovely village where quirky folks abound!
And where murder almost never happens…
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 middle-aged women from the Barrachois army base die. Jimmy
and Notepad Urquhart are summoned to investigate – but on the strict
understanding there will be no hope of ever prosecuting the murderer.
This will be a Death in Secret.
Death of a Codebreaker will keep you turning pages until your hand ~ goes numb or your alarm rings.
A sunny, lazy autumn day. A bronze plaque, with the names of WWII dead, is being mounted on the city cenotaph. A chain breaks; the heavy plaque swings wildly and pierces the wall of the memorial.
A police officer and his wife raise their family in a dangerous area. They move, and trouble follows, haunting them in every way.
Awakened in the middle of the night by a panic call for help from his high-school hearthrob, Sean makes a grisly discovery.
One sunny afternoon in 1968 twenty-year-old Sandy Chambers' desperate wish to lose her virginity cost her lover his life.
Small towns can be murder -- a haunting story of lies, betrayal and deadly repercussions.
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