Crime Writers of Canada - Book Catalogue

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

Michelle Wan

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

Aloha, Candy Hearts

Anthony Bidulka

A Russell Quant Mystery: From Pacific to Prairie, a teasing treasure hunt turns into a frightening game of cat and mouse.

American Gangsters: Then and Now

Nate Hendley

A portrait of the U.S. underworld, from Jesse James to John Gotti.

Arctic Blue Death

R.J. Harlick

Meg Harris’s father’s plane went missing in the Arctic. He was never seen again.

Backup

Rick Mofina

"I looked back at my mom and now she looked like she was crying and I could see the TV and it was all shaky like looking down from a helicopter."

Barrington Street Blues: A Collins/Burke Mystery

Anne Emery

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...

Cecilian Vespers: A Collins/Burke Mystery

Anne Emery

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...

Death Loves a Messy Desk: A Charlotte Adams Mystery

Mary Jane Maffini

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

ENIGMA CLUB

Gloria Pearson-Vasey

High school students investigate a teacher’s mysterious death

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...

Gold Digger: A Klondike Mystery

Vicki Delany

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...

Law & Disorder

Mary Jane Maffini

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...

Obit: A Collins/Burke Mystery

Anne Emery

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

On the Head of a Pin

Janet Kellough

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...

Santa Baby

Melodie Campbell

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...

Six Seconds

Rick Mofina

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...

Tainted

Ross Pennie

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...

The Beacon and Other Mystery Stories

Elizabeth Elwood

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...

The Brutal Telling

Louise Penny

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...

The First Excellence

Donna Carrick

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...

The Loves and Tribulations of Detective Stephen Carlton

René Natan

Three women scar Detective Stephen Carlton’s heart.

The Shushan Citadel

Gloria Pearson-Vasey

An Israeli girl stranded at Shushan by a global disaster assumes an undercover role to save her people from slavery

The Winter Sea

Susanna Kearsley

Mesmerising and meticulously researched, The Winter Sea is a haunting tale of two women''s experiences of love, political intrigue and personal betrayal in two very different times.

This Thing of Darkness: An Inspector Green Mystery

Barbara Fradkin

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...

Time Will Tell

Twist Phelan

"Lauren Winslow swept into my office a half hour after my secretary left, twenty minutes before Security came on duty downstairs."

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