T’wasn’t a Merry Christmas for all
Many gathered for the festivities
One never left alive…
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
In 1896, in Bear River, NS, someone brutally murdered Annie Kempton. Suspicion quickly focused on Peter Wheeler.
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.
Wedged between Vancouver and the U.S. Border, the Boundary Police are struggling to find the killer of one of their own officers. When a curler is murdered, the pressure intensifies.
Tate Boman, excited to be back in the field, is parachuted in from Vancouver to team with newly minted Detective Claire Kozak, intent on proving herself. Together they disinter the hidden truths, old and new, of the communities of Tsawwassen and Ladner.
From learning to curl, to exploring the dikes that protect the city from the Pacific Ocean, they cannot avoid the modern problems of climate change, drugs, race and bullying. Tate and Claire uncover important truths about themselves as they follow the tangled chain of events leading to a climactic confrontation.
Sixteen-year-old Charlie suspects her coworker is hiding a dangerous secret. As threats escalate, she must decide—stay silent or risk everything to expose the truth.
Jake discovers clues on his property that tie him to a murder victim, and he suspects he might be accused of one nasty crime.
Melding English and Drama depts to provide a Shakespeare camp at the outdoor festival offers a front row seat to murder.
Come back to Grand Bank for another adventure with Sgt. Windflower and the gang. Food, family and a few dead bodies.
A secret affair. A deadly agenda. A PI caught in the middle.
A Canadian farm cozy about the importance of land.
Reunions can be hell, especially when a murderer returns to finish off what was started twenty years ago.
Welcome to Cascade, the lovely village where quirky folks abound!
And where murder almost never happens…
Maybe it was silly to focus on those vet bills. But money fertilizes human weakness; it's important to know how it's spread.
Two small-time journalists take on an international cartel who try a hostile takeover of a Canadian mining company.
Since childhood, David Harris has had debilitating nightmares. Psychiatrists and other health professionals were unable to help. After learning he was murdered in his most recent past life and that his killer is still alive, he seeks revenge.
Clergy abuse is an explosive issue. Get inside the mind of Father John Damon, and discover what makes him tick.
"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.
A gripping noir mystery introducing artless young detective Patrick Bird, set in Toronto's Parkdale during the raucous '60s.
A private investigator on his first case finds himself attempting to assist the police in taking down a new violent white supremist organization.
A nation holds its breath.
On a perfect prairie summer evening, Saskatchewan Roughrider football star Dustin Thomson goes missing.
When danger threatens Grand Bank, will Sgt. Windflower step back into the line of fire?
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