Crime Writers of Canada - Book Catalogue

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Pandora's Succession

Russell Brooks

Release Date: October 23, 2010

Spy/Military/Political Thriller

Crime Fiction

Suspense/Thriller

Quebec

Where would you hide if a hyperdeadly microbe was unleashed on the human race?

Fire Underneath the Ice

R.S. Natanevin

Release Date: June 14, 2010

Thriller

Novella

Ontario

Revenge is supposed to be sweet, but when Michael Hamming decides to take it out on the daughter of his nemesis, the sweetness is not what he expected...

Greedy Little Eyes

Billie Livingston

Release Date: June 01, 2010

Anthologies and Collections

Short Fiction

Short Stories

BC/Yukon

Award-winning writer Billie Livingston explores the universal craving for connection, both emotional and physical.

The Secret Fiend, The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His Fourth Case

Shane Peacock

Release Date: May 11, 2010

Crime Novel

Juvenile/Young Adult

Ontario - Central/East/Ottawa

"The Secret Fiend," the fourth Boy Sherlock Holmes novel, is a page-turning political YA thriller.

Bury Your Dead

Louise Penny

Release Date: January 01, 2010

Mystery

As Quebec City shivers in the grip of winter, its ancient stone walls cracking in the cold, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache plunges into the most unusual case of his celebrated career.

Beautiful Lie the Dead, an Inspector Green Mystery

When the fiancée of a wealthy social activist disappears in the middle of a howling blizzard, everyone fears the worst. But a mysterious bus trip, a family secret and a dead stranger lead Ottawa Police Inspector Michael Green to Montreal to re-investigate

Revenge of the Lobster Lover

Hilary MacLeod

Release Date: January 01, 2010

Mystery

Ontario

As the lobster lover fights for life, the wind delivers her revenge. First in The Shores series.

Never Look Away

Linwood Barclay

Release Date: January 01, 2010

Thriller

Ontario

As David struggles to restore his family, he discovers that the people we’re most close to are the ones with the biggest secrets.

The Noon God

Donna Carrick

Release Date: January 01, 2010

Mystery

Ontario

Living in the shadow of greatness can be a difficult thing. Just ask Desdemona. When her father, renowned author J. Caesar Fortune, is found murdered...

Gold And Fishes

Donna Carrick

Release Date: January 01, 2010

Mystery

In the midst of universal tragedy, what is the value of a single life? Canadian aid worker Ayla Harris and her team struggle to bring hope to the ruins of post-tsunami Indonesia.

Negative Image

Vicki Delany

Release Date: January 01, 2010

Mystery

Police Procedural

Ontario

When his wife’s former fiancé is found dead of a single shot to the back of the head, Trafalgar Police Sergeant John Winters is forced to make the most difficult decision of his life

The Damage Done

Hilary Davidson

Release Date: January 01, 2010

Amateur Sleuth

Lily Moore, a successful travel writer, fled to Spain to get away from her troubled, drug-addicted younger sister, Claudia.

Snow Job

William Deverell

Release Date: January 01, 2010

Mystery

British Columbia

Wildly imaginative, utterly Canadian, and irresistibly funny.

Gold Fever: A Klondike Mystery

Vicki Delany

Release Date: January 01, 2010

Historical Crime

Mystery

Ontario

The Klondike Gold Rush: Fiona MacGillivray and the Savoy Dance Hall are busier than ever. There's something familiar about an arrival's accent...

Kill for an Orchid

Michelle Wan

Release Date: January 01, 2010

Mystery

Cozy

Ontario

Kill for an Orchid, a Novel of Death in the Dordogne, brings Mara Dunn and Julian Wood back in a tale spanning two hemispheres and three centuries.

Smoked

Garry Ryan

Release Date: January 01, 2010

Detective/PI

Mystery

Alberta

When Jennifer Towers, a young professional with a promising career in dentistry, is found dead in a graffiti-tagged dumpster, Detectives Lane and Harper must decipher the tag in order to find its artist -- and the victim's killer...

Children in the Morning

Anne Emery

Release Date: January 01, 2010

Mystery

They made a movie about hotshot lawyer Beau Delaney. Now he's charged with the murder of his wife - mother of their ten children. A tough case for Monty Collins and Father Burke...

Lethal Practice

Peter Clement

Release Date: January 01, 2010

Mystery

When ER doctor Earl Garnet discovers the hospital's Chief Administrator murdered with a cardiac needle, he immediately becomes one of the suspects...

The Darkness Drops

Peter Clement

Release Date: January 01, 2010

Thriller

Dr. Terry Ryder, Chief Advisor to the White House for Bioterror Preparedness, faces a lethal outbreak, the cause unknown...

The Blackpox Threat

René Natan

Release Date: January 01, 2010

Thriller

Crime Fiction

Romantic Suspense

Ontario

A deadly virus is on its way to Canada – from Ukraine via Italy.

Closet Confidential

Mary Jane Maffini

Release Date: January 01, 2010

Mystery

Cozy

Ontario

“Show me your closets and I’ll show you your secrets,” professional organizer and amateur sleuth Charlotte Adams likes to say. This is too true for comfort...

Date With a Sheesha - Russell Quant Mystery #7

Anthony Bidulka

Release Date: January 01, 2010

Detective/PI

Mystery

A Russell Quant Mystery: From the glitzy, flamboyant Dubai, to the frankincense fields of Oman and scorching sand dunes of Saudi Arabia, PI Russell Quant is on a magical carpet ride that skids to a deadly halt...

In Winter's Grip

Brenda Chapman

Release Date: January 01, 2010

Amateur Sleuth

Cozy

Ontario

The last thing Maja Cleary wanted was to be drawn back to her childhood home in the depths of a snowy Minnesota winter...

Seventh Fire

Catherine Astolfo

Release Date: January 01, 2010

Psychological Suspense

Amateur Sleuth

Mystery

Ontario

Seventh Fire is the fourth and final installment of the Emily Taylor Mysteries. Emily and her husband, Langford, travel back, both in place and time, to the site of their dark and mysterious past...

Every Secret Thing

Susanna Kearsley

Release Date: January 01, 2010

Crime Fiction

Mystery

Kate Murray is deeply troubled. In front of her lies a dead man, a stranger who only minutes before had spoken to her - about a mystery, a long-forgotten murder and, most worryingly, her grandmother.

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