The death of a child is always heartbreaking, but what Kenzie Kirsch, assistant to the Medical Examiner, finds on her slab shakes her to the core.
Reminiscent of Alice Munro-these stories are heart wrenching, authentic, and luminous.
~ Ginger Bolton
1928. When a dead body is dumped in her luxury ocean liner cabin, Lucy Revelstoke, the young widow of a British lord, must discover the killer before authorities start digging into her own checkered past.
1928. When a dead body is dumped in her luxury ocean liner cabin, Lucy Revelstoke, the young widow of a British lord, must discover the killer before authorities start digging into her own checkered past.
A murder-mystery set in Ottawa featuring a cast of oddball journalists and an unlikely romance.
Detective Madison Knight is at the risk of losing everything to a twisted killer set on revenge…
When danger threatens Grand Bank, will Sgt. Windflower step back into the line of fire?
What happens to convicted criminals when the media has moved on to more urgent issues? This is the rest of the story
A haunting mystery unfolds in the hushed corridors of a private psychiatric hospital.
Arthur Beauchamp is mortified. A biography of his early career as a lawyer paints him as a dissolute womanizer. So he sweats over a memoir that he hopes will set the record straight about a headline murder case he fought as a starry-eyed young lawyer in 1966. A trial that seemed bound to mark him as a pathetic loser.
BAD BOYS IN BOSTON
IT’S
JUST BUSINESS, NEVER PERSONAL.
Thirty years after fighting crime and corruption in the
1980s, Dale Hunter and Frank the Fixer are now drawn into more current criminal
activities as they try to rescue a niece kidnapped into sex trafficking and
online pornography by Russian gangsters in Boston. Dale and Frank follow a
treacherous trail into the dangerous and violent international sex trade that
also exposes Frank’s tragic family history in Africa and more violent threats
closer to home in Montreal. It starts with a phone call to Frank the Fixer and
leads us through a complicated network of gangsters and Mafia families in their
murderous competition for the lucrative business of sex trafficking and online
pornography. A secretive Montreal Mafia figure is assassinated and deals are
made to extricate the innocent young victims from competing interests. Tough
tactics and insider knowledge are required, but more violence and murders
cannot be avoided.
Only one thing can stop Kate learning the truth about her aunt's death
-- her murderer.
The husband is always the most likely murder suspect, but which husband? Can Camelia Belmont figure out what really happened or will someone get away with murder?
A nation holds its breath.
On a perfect prairie summer evening, Saskatchewan Roughrider football star Dustin Thomson goes missing.
Sometimes it’s about doing the right thing. Sometimes it’s about getting even. Sometimes it’s about taking what you think you deserve. And sometimes, it’s your last, best, chance.
Detective Amanda Steele is pulled into a murder investigation that is quite personal for her partner when his aunt becomes the prime suspect.
There's nothing more suspicious than an honest confession.
Uncover the chilling truth behind a disturbing photo that holds the key to a deadly secret
Puzzling problems at a picturesque Welsh hotel; a garden gnome’s gone; a chaotic kitchen conundrum; bungling builders – the WISE women are busy!
A private investigator on his first case finds himself attempting to assist the police in taking down a new violent white supremist organization.
A gripping noir mystery introducing artless young detective Patrick Bird, set in Toronto's Parkdale during the raucous '60s.
"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.
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