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Burn Country

Burn Country
  • Author(s): Michael J McCann
  • Location(s): Ontario
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The latest in a series of barn fires in Leeds County turns ugly when a body is discovered inside the burned-out husk of an old hay barn near the village of Elgin. When the victim turns out to be...

Bury Your Dead

Bury Your Dead
  • Author(s): Louise Penny
  • Location(s): Québec
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

There is more to solving a crime than following the clues. Welcome to Chief Inspector Gamache’s world of facts and feelings. As Quebec City shivers in the grip of winter, its ancient stone walls cracking in the cold, Chief...

Changeling Dream

Changeling Dream
  • Author(s): Dani Harper
  • Location(s): Alberta
  • Genre(s): Paranormal, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

In times of stress Jillian Descharme has always found calm in her dream of a great white wolf with haunting blue eyes. But she is startled when the visions return and this time seem so real. Late at night...

Chocolate Worth Dying for

Chocolate Worth Dying for
  • Author(s): Pat Amsden
  • Location(s): Victoria BC
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Chocolate Worth Dying For–Maxine is the brand new owner of a chocolate shop and catering business ‘Au Chocolat’. She figures with a lot of hard work and a little luck she’ll be able to make her dream a reality....

Christmas Under the Stars

Christmas Under the Stars
  • Author(s): Karen Swan
  • Location(s): Banff
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In the snow-topped mountains of the Canadian Rockies, Meg and Mitch are living their dream. Just weeks away from their wedding, they work and play with Tuck and Lucy, their closest and oldest friends. Meg and Lucy are as...

City of the Lost

City of the Lost
  • Author(s): Kelley Armstrong
  • Location(s): Yukon
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Casey Duncan is a homicide detective with a secret: when she was in college, she killed a man. She was never caught, but he was the grandson of a mobster and she knows this crime will catch up to...

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...

Cold Mourning

Cold Mourning
  • Author(s): Brenda Chapman
  • Location(s): Ottawa
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): early 2000s

When murder stalks a family over Christmas, Kala Stonechild trusts her intuition to get results. It’s a week before Christmas when wealthy businessman Tom Underwood disappears into thin air — with more than enough people wanting him dead. New...

Consolation

Consolation
  • Author(s): Michael Redhill
  • Location(s): Toronto
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century

It is 1856, Toronto. Unable to make a living in the New World from his trade, English apothecary J. G. Hallam takes up the new science of photography, and embarks on a grand project to document the bleak young...

Crosshairs

Crosshairs
  • Author(s): Catherine Hernandez
  • Location(s): Canada
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Near future

The author of the acclaimed novel Scarborough weaves an unforgettable and timely dystopian tale about a near-future, where a queer Black performer and his allies join forces to rise up when an oppressive regime gathers those deemed “Other” into...

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