Crime Writers of Canada - Book Catalogue

A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery: A trail of clues and treasures from first editions of Charlotte’s Web and Jane Eyre to a spider web with the word “WOE” woven in it...

Six Seconds

Rick Mofina

Release Date: January 01, 2009

Thriller

Ontario

A California mother's anguished search for her abducted son and a haunted Mountie's investigation into an American reporter's mysterious death in the Canadian Rockies uncover a global plot...

Valley of the Lost

Vicki Delany

Release Date: January 01, 2009

Mystery

Police Procedural

Ontario

In the bucolic mountain town of Trafalgar, B.C., a young woman is found dead of a heroin overdose, her baby at her side. Marks of restraint indicate that it wasn’t an accident...

A Twist of Orchids: A Novel of Death in the Dordogne

Michelle Wan

Release Date: January 01, 2009

Mystery

Ontario

Winter in the Dordogne. Mara Dunn and Julian Wood, living in an already uneasy relationship, are confronted by a series of shattering events...

Tainted

Ross Pennie

Release Date: January 01, 2009

Thriller

Dr. Zol Szabo gazes across the Niagara Escarpment, his fingers crossed. Three citizens on ice in the university’s morgue, mad-cow prions riddling their brains – it must be just a cruel coincidence...

Death Loves a Messy Desk: A Charlotte Adams Mystery

Mary Jane Maffini

Release Date: January 01, 2009

Mystery

Cozy

Recent murders have unbalanced Charlotte Adams's life and ruined her favorite footwear. The professional organizer and accidental sleuth...

Obit: A Collins/Burke Mystery

Anne Emery

Release Date: January 01, 2009

Mystery

Declan Burke fled Ireland for New York 40 years ago and has never looked back. Then he sees his own obituary in the paper...

Cecilian Vespers: A Collins/Burke Mystery

Anne Emery

Release Date: January 01, 2009

Mystery

Lawyer/bluesman Monty Collins is used to defending murderers, as well as occasionally investigating murders himself. But he's never come up against anything like the case...

Barrington Street Blues: A Collins/Burke Mystery

Anne Emery

Release Date: January 01, 2009

Mystery

A rich man and a poor man are found dead of gunshot wounds on Barrington Street. It's declared a murder-suicide, but Monty Collins suspects a double murder...

Gold Digger: A Klondike Mystery

Vicki Delany

Release Date: January 01, 2009

Historical Crime

Mystery

Ontario

It’s the spring of 1898 in Dawson, Yukon Territory. The Klondike Gold Rush is in full swing and Fiona MacGillivray has crawled over the Chilkoot Pass, determined to make her fortune...

Trail of Secrets: A Jennifer Bannon Mystery

Brenda Chapman

Release Date: January 01, 2009

Juvenile/Young Adult

Mystery

Ontario

Jennifer Bannon begins Grade 11 at Springhills High, and her life is far from settled.

Santa Baby

Melodie Campbell

Release Date: January 01, 2009

Anthologies and Collections

Short Stories

Mystery

Ontario

Santa got whacked sometime after midnight on the night before Christmas. Not a creature was stirring on most of the mountain, but 'twas a different story on Country Club Drive...

This Thing of Darkness: An Inspector Green Mystery

Barbara Fradkin

Release Date: January 01, 2009

Mystery

Ontario

In the seventh of this award-winning series, an elderly, retired psychiatrist is beaten to death one night on the streets of Ottawa’s Byward Market. Suspicion falls on four gang punks...

Fear the Worst

Linwood Barclay

Release Date: January 01, 2009

Thriller

Ontario

Sydney Blake’s summer is shaping up to be typical for a 17-year-old teenager: She’s spending it with her father, and she has landed a part-time job at a local hotel. One night, Syd fails to come home from her shift...

Too Close to Home

Linwood Barclay

Release Date: January 01, 2009

Thriller

Ontario

In a quiet suburban neighborhood, in a house only one door away, a family is brutally murdered for no apparent reason. And you think to yourself: It could have been us. And you start to wonder: What if we’re next?

Law & Disorder

Mary Jane Maffini

Release Date: January 01, 2009

Mystery

Cozy

Ontario

Camilla MacPhee is distracted when Ashley and Brittany, her step-daughters-to-be, visit. As the girls strive to excel at dragon boat racing, Camilla struggles to discover who is killing Ottawa lawyers...

On the Head of a Pin

Janet Kellough

Release Date: January 01, 2009

Historical Crime

Mystery

Ontario

Saddlebag preacher Thaddeus Lewis still mourns the mysterious death of his daughter Sarah as he rides to his new posting in Prince Edward County. When another girl dies in the same way, he realizes that the circumstances point to murder...

The Beacon and Other Mystery Stories

Elizabeth Elwood

Release Date: January 01, 2009

Anthologies and Collections

Short Stories

Mystery

The Beary family returns, featuring feisty city councillor, Bertram Beary, his opera-singing daughter, and his detective inspector son. From the title story, which deals with two eerily similar deaths...

Winter of Secrets

Vicki Delany

Release Date: January 01, 2009

Mystery

Police Procedural

Ontario

Christmas Eve and the snowstorm of the decade has settled over the town of Trafalgar, B.C. Constable Molly Smith has a busy shift attending fender-benders, tumbling pedestrians, and Christmas tree fires.

The First Excellence

Donna Carrick

Release Date: January 01, 2009

Mystery

Ontario

Join Fa-ling on an incredible journey into the heart of mainland China as she sets out to discover the land of her birth. In order to determine her future, Fa-ling must first unlock the mysteries of her past...