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It All Falls Down

It All Falls Down
  • Author(s): Sheena Kamal
  • Location(s): Detroit, Vancouver
  • Genre(s): Thriller

When Nora Watts is approached by a man claiming to know her late father, she is thrown into turmoil. Struggling with the imminent death, from cancer, of her friend and mentor Sebastian Crow, she is unprepared for the memories...

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...

Once in a house on fire

Once in a house on fire
  • Author(s): Andrea Ashworth
  • Location(s): Manchester, Vancouver
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Late 1970s, 1980s

Given her start in life, it is all the more remarkable that Andrea Ashworth should have turned out to be an Oxford graduate with such a compelling memoir under her belt. Her father died when she was five, her...

Are You Lonesome Tonight?

Are You Lonesome Tonight?
  • Author(s): Bobby Hutchinson
  • Location(s): Vancouver
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

On the telephone, Maxine Bleckner, frazzled single mother, is India McBride, voluptuous sex goddess. Left pregnant and penniless by a lying, conniving scoundrel, Maxine Bleckner has found an unorthodox way to support herself and baby Graham. Her alter-ego, India...

Cobra Clutch

Cobra Clutch
  • Author(s): A J Devlin
  • Location(s): Vancouver
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

“Hammerhead” Jed Ounstead thought he’d traded the pro-wrestling world for the slightly less dangerous one of a bar bouncer and errand boy for his father’s detective agency, but the squared circle wasn’t quite done with him yet. When his...

Headhunter

Headhunter
  • Author(s): Michael Slade
  • Location(s): Vancouver
  • Genre(s): Horror, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

The Headhunter is loose on the streets of Vancouver. The psycho’s victims are everywhere—floating in the Fraser River, buried in a shallow grave, nailed to an Indian totem pole on the university campus. All are women. All are headless....

Nine Birds Singing

Nine Birds Singing
  • Author(s): Edythe Anstey Hanen
  • Location(s): British Columbia, Mexico, Vancouver
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s to present day

Nine Birds Singing is a poignant coming-of-age story. Readers travel back to the swinging 60s in Vancouver with Maddie, a young woman breaking free of her religious upbringing. Follow Maddie’s journey from Vancouver, to Mexico, to the Gulf Islands...

One Good Hustle

One Good Hustle
  • Author(s): Billie Livingston
  • Location(s): Vancouver
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

The child of two con artists, 16-year-old Sammie Bell always prided herself on knowing the score. But now she finds herself backed into a corner. After a hustle gone dangerously wrong, her mother, Marlene, is sliding into an abyss...

Property Values

Property Values
  • Author(s): Charles DeMers
  • Location(s): Vancouver
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The worlds of urban gentrification, overpriced real estate, and gang violence collide in this wry and sardonic crime novel by author and comedian Charles Demers. As a shaky truce between suburban gangsters starts to unravel, schlubby civilian Scott Clark...

The Memory Collectors

The Memory Collectors
  • Author(s): Kim Neville
  • Location(s): Vancouver
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Perfect for fans of The Scent Keeper and The Keeper of Lost Things, an atmospheric and enchanting debut novel about two women haunted by buried secrets but bound by a shared gift and the power the past holds over...

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