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Fall from Grace

Fall from Grace
  • Author(s): Wayne Arthurson
  • Location(s): Edmonton
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Leo Desroches is a reporter for an Edmonton newspaper and attends a murder scene and comes from a native background. Much of this is his story as he rebuilds his life and investigates the murder.

It Isn’t Cheating if He’s Dead

It Isn’t Cheating if He’s Dead
  • Author(s): Julie Frayn
  • Location(s): Calgary, Canada, Vancouver
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day (2013 ish)

Jemima Stone waited four long years for her missing fiancé, Gerald, to come home, burying herself in her job and feeding the homeless in a local park. When Gerald is found dead halfway across the country, she drowns herself...

The Lucky Elephant Restaurant

The Lucky Elephant Restaurant
  • Author(s): Garry Ryan
  • Location(s): Calgary
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

When the young daughter of popular radio talk show host Bobbie Reddie disappears along with Bobbie’s ex-husband, Detectives Lane and Harper are on the case. Haunted by flashbacks from a previous missing child case, Lane once again takes to...

The Outlander

The Outlander
  • Author(s): Gil Adamson
  • Location(s): Alberta
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

On a moonlit night in 1903, a mysterious young woman flees alone across the Canadian wilderness, one quick step ahead of her pursuers. Mary Boulton is nineteen years old, half mad, and widowed – by her own hand. Tearing...

Malabarista

Malabarista
  • Author(s): Garry Ryan
  • Location(s): Calgary

Calgary police detective Lane is under investigation at work and his partner Arthur might have cancer. The couple also looks after 2 teenagers. He then is assigned a new work partner, Keely Saliba.

The Little Shadows

The Little Shadows
  • Author(s): Marina Endicott
  • Location(s): Alberta
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1910s

MARINA ENDICOTT PRESENTS THE THREE GRACEFUL AVERY GIRLS THE SISTER ACT TO TAKE VAUDEVILLE BY STORM STARRING: AURORA, CLOVER and BELLA As they set off on the road to fame and fortune, the Avery sisters join a cast of...

Man and Other Natural Disasters

Man and Other Natural Disasters
  • Author(s): Nerys Parry
  • Location(s): Calgary
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century

Simon restores books. Minerva arrives to streamline the process, and bares a striking resemblance to his sister (who died through fire). Simon is coming to terms with tremendous loss within his family – he finally snaps arriving home one...

Murder on the Bow

Murder on the Bow
  • Author(s): John Ballem
  • Location(s): Calgary
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Calgary, Alberta – City of oil barons and equestrians: saints and sinners: the exquisitely rich and the desperately poor… and murderers. Detective Chris Crane knows all these worlds. He knows the high stakes games played by the politicians and...

Amanda in Alberta:The Writing on the Stone

Amanda in Alberta:The Writing on the Stone
  • Author(s): Darlene Foster
  • Location(s): Alberta
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): present day

Amanda is delighted to show Leah aaround Alberta during her visit from England. They take in the Calgary Stampede, go on a cattle drive, visit Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, spend time with the dinosaurs at the Royal Tyrrell Museum and...

Bow Grip

Bow Grip
  • Author(s): Ivan E Coyote
  • Location(s): Alberta
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A good-hearted, small-town mechanic struggles to deal with a wife who has left him for another woman until a used cello and an acquaintance’s suicide attempt compel him to make some changes in his life.

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