Crime Writers of Canada - Book Catalogue

All results for year 2006

April Fool

William Deverell

Sequel to Trial of Passion, Nick Faloon, ex-jewel thief (once ranked number seven in the world)is accused of murdering an attractive Ann Landerish pop-therapist.

Bad Guys

Linwood Barclay

A Zack Walker Mystery: Zack writes a feature article on a P.I. that brings him face to face with the homicidal, doll-loving leader of a criminal gang.

Body Contact

Terry Carroll

When Tracy Hewitt goes missing, police officer and amateur goalie Carl North has enormous difficulty believing team-mate Rick Hewitt might be guilty of murdering his wife.

By the Time You Read This

Giles Blunt

A John Cardinal Mystery: Cardinal receives a string of menacing letters and finds himself tracking a killer...

A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery: It's winter in the idyllic Quebec village of Three Pines. Snow is gently falling and the residents are preparing their Christmas celebrations. But someone is preparing something far more sinister – murder.

Dead in the Water: An Anthology of Canadian Mystery Fiction

Therese Greenwood

An Anthology of Canadian Mystery Fiction: Over 80% of Canadians live near a body of water – and that means when Canadians turn to crime, somebody usually ends up all wet.

Deadly Lessons

David Russell

Winston Patrick and his best friend, Detective Andrea Pearson, find themselves immersed in a murder investigation that could cause an international incident...if it doesn't cost Winston his own life first.

Deadly Slipper

Michelle Wan

A Novel of Death in the Dordogne: Mara Dunn seeks her sister Bedie, who vanished on a hiking holiday in southwestern France.

Does Your Mother Know?

Maureen Jennings

Does Your Mother Know? is the first of an original series featuring Canadian forensic profiler Christine Morris.

Every Fear

Rick Mofina

A Jason Wade Thriller: "Pushes crackling suspense to the breaking point and beyond!" Kay Hooper, New York Times bestselling author.

Family Claims

Twist Phelan

A Pinnacle Peak Mystery: Hannah Dain's plan to leave the family firm is derailed when a deal she’s put together goes bad.

Hiding in Hawk’s Creek

Brenda Chapman

A Jennifer Bannon Mystery: Hawk's Creek holds dark secrets, and Jennifer is soon drawn into the troubled world of Audrey Musquash

Honour Among Men

Barbara Fradkin

An Inspector Green Mystery: In the fifth of this award-winning series, a routine murder inquiry heats up when Green finds a Halifax train ticket and a stolen military medal in the dead woman’s possession.

Kindness and Lies

S.P. Hozy

Amid the turmoil of 1927 Shanghai, three women – one Russian, one Chinese, and one French – determine the tragic fate of a young piano prodigy.

Red Ice for a Shroud

R.J. Harlick

Sex, drugs and ice, a deadly mix

Season of Iron

Sylvia Maultash Warsh

A Dr. Rebecca Temple Mystery: In 1979 Toronto, a schizophrenic homeless woman is killed. Rebecca’s investigation into the death leads her to a German fencing instructor and an Egyptian physician, but neither man is who he appears to be.

Sign of the Cross: A Collins/Burke Mystery

Anne Emery

An acerbic Catholic priest is the prime suspect in the murder of a young woman, and Monty Collins must defend him.

Stain of the Berry

Anthony Bidulka

A Russell Quant Mystery: Everyone has their Boogeyman. But who – or what – is scaring Saskatoon locals to death? Private detective Russell Quant falls into a nightmare case...

Still Life

Louise Penny

A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery: Still Life introduces Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and the tiny Quebec village of Three Pines. The village is so peaceful it doesn’t even have police, so when a beloved retired school teacher is killed...

The Dying Hour

Rick Mofina

A Jason Wade Thriller: Jason pursues the case of a Seattle college student whose car was found abandoned on a lonely stretch of highway near the Canadian border.

The Inquisitor

Peter Clement

An Earl Garnet Medical Thriller: In the chilling nether world of the near-death experience, cancer patients on a terminal ward are pursued by the Dark Man.

The Jungfrau Watch

René Natan

The collapse of the Soviet Union leaves two prominent members of the Red Brigades without funds, without a job, and without a cause. They both find asylum, under false identities, in Canada.

The Lucky Elephant Restaurant

Garry Ryan

A Detective Lane Mystery: When the young daughter of popular radio talk show host Bobbie Reddie disappears along with Bobbie's ex-husband, Detectives Lane and Harper are on the case.

Vices of My Blood

Maureen Jennings

A Detective Murdoch Mystery: The sixth in the Detective Murdoch series set in Toronto of 1896 finds Murdoch investigating the savage murder of Reverend Charles Howard, a well-liked pastor of a Toronto Presbyterian church.

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