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New Girl in Little Cove

New Girl in Little Cove
  • Author(s): Damhnait Monaghan
  • Location(s): Newfoundland & Labrador
  • Genre(s): Fiction, RomCom
  • Era(s): 1980s

When a new teacher arrives in a tiny fishing village, she realizes the most important lessons are the ones she learns outside the classroom. It’s 1985. Rachel O’Brien arrives in Little Cove, Newfoundland seeking a fresh start after her...

Sweetland

Sweetland
  • Author(s): Michael Crummey
  • Location(s): Newfoundland & Labrador
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

The scarcely populated town of Sweetland rests on the shore of a remote Canadian island. Its slow decline finally reaches a head when the mainland government offers each islander a generous resettlement package the sole stipulation being that everyone...

The Bleeding

The Bleeding
  • Author(s): Johana Gustawsson, David Warriner (translator)
  • 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...

The Coral Bride

The Coral Bride
  • Author(s): Roxanne Bouchard, David Warriner (translator)
  • 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...

The Master

The Master
  • Author(s): Dora Ilieva
  • Location(s): Canada, Bulgaria, Italy, Montenegro
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

Three years after her father’s tragic death, Kossara receives a mysterious phone call and a lucrative job offer. Eager to relaunch her academic career, she silences the voice of caution and accepts the proposal which requires that she return...

Trillium

Trillium
  • Author(s): Margaret Lindsay Holton
  • Location(s): Beamsville, Grimsby (Ontario), Hamilton, Niagara Falls, Ontario, St Catharines
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1750 to 2001

Starting in the mid 1750s, three very diverse young men arrive to the southern shore of Lake Ontario to start new lives. Thomas Hartford, a young British foot soldier is the first of the three to admire the magnificent...

Wickerby: An Urban Pastoral

Wickerby: An Urban Pastoral
  • Author(s): Charles Siebert
  • 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?...

Black Rock

Black Rock
  • Author(s): John McFetridge
  • 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....

A Town Called Solace

A Town Called Solace
  • Author(s): Mary Lawson
  • Location(s): Northern Ontario
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1972

Clara’s sister is missing. Angry, rebellious Rose had a row with their mother, stormed out of the house and simply disappeared. Seven-year-old Clara, isolated by her distraught parents’ efforts to protect her from the truth, is grief-stricken and bewildered....

Casket Cache

Casket Cache
  • Author(s): Janice J Richardson
  • Location(s): Niagara Falls
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): present

When hard-working Jennifer inherits a funeral home in Niagara, she’s determined to build the reputation of a business people can trust. A casino pit boss is murdered, A burglar breaks into the funeral home, Jennifer finds a mysterious cache...

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