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- Location(s): Québec, Paris
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller, In Translation
Queen of French Noir, Johana Gustawsson returns with a spell-binding, dazzlingly dark gothic thriller that swings from Belle Époque France to 21st-century Quebec, with an extraordinary mystery at its heart… FIRST in a bewitching new series ‘The Bleeding begins...
- Location(s): The Gaspé Peninsula, Québec
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, In Translation
- Era(s): Contemporary
When an abandoned lobster trawler is found adrift off the coast of Quebec’s Gaspé Peninsula, DS Joaquin Moralès begins a straightforward search for the boat’s missing captain, Angel Roberts – a rare female in a male-dominated world. But Moralès...
- Location(s): Brooklyn, Québec
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
“Outside my window, the city lights are taking hold now, the breeze-brushed, gently pulsating grid. Why is a cemented aggregate of homes arranged in a tall, tight cluster any further from nature than one wood home within the woods?...
- Location(s): Montreal
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 1970s
An artfully told police procedural set in an explosive era in recent history Montreal 1970. The “Vampire Killer” has murdered three women and a fourth is missing. Bombs explode in the stock exchange, McGill University, and houses in Westmount....
- Location(s): Montreal, Québec
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Imagine waking up in a snow globe. . . That’s how travel journalist Krista feels when she arrives in magical Quebec to report on Canada’s glittering Winter Carnival. Over ten sub-zero days Krista’s formerly frozen heart begins to melt...
- Location(s): Québec
- Genre(s): Crime, Suspense
- Era(s): Modern
Winter in Three Pines, and the sleepy village is carpeted in snow. It’s a time of peace and goodwill – until a scream pierces the biting air. A spectator at the annual Boxing Day curling match has been fatally...
- Location(s): Québec, Vermont
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
One cold November day, a mysterious figure appears on the village green in Three Pines, causing unease, alarm and confusion among everyone who sees it. Chief Superintendent, Armand Gamache knows something is seriously wrong, but all he can do...
- Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Malaysia (Malaya), Montreal
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 1970s onwards
Ru: In Vietnamese it means lullaby: in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow – of tears, blood, money. Kim Thúy’s Ru is literature at its most crystalline: the flow of a life on the...
- Location(s): Québec
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Jane Neal, 76 year old former school teacher, is found dead on Thanksgiving Sunday in the woods. The police quickly suspect she was killed by an arrow. it is the hunting season, so could it have been an accident?...
- Location(s): Cambodia, Montreal
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Looking back at the 1980s
One starless night Janie’s childhood was swept away by the terrors of the Khmer Rouge. Exiled from Phnom Penh, Janie and her family were forced to live out in the open: cold, hungry and under constant surveillance. Caught up...