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The Grey Wolf

The Grey Wolf
  • Author(s): Louise Penny
  • Location(s): Québec
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

‘Intelligent, warm, familiar, gripping, and completely immersive. Ambitious in geography and scope, I relished every paragraph. The Gamache (and Three Pines) we love, but utterly fresh. SUPERB’ WILL DEAN Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August...

The Haunting of L.

The Haunting of L.
  • Author(s): Howard Norman
  • Location(s): Churchill, Halifax
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

It is 1927. Young Peter Duvett has accepted a job as an assistant to the elusive portraitist Vienna Linn, in the remote town of Churchill, Manitoba. Across Canada, Linn has been arranging and photographing gruesome accidents for the private...

The Heritage Heist (Century Cottage Cozy Mysteries Book 2)

The Heritage Heist (Century Cottage Cozy Mysteries Book 2)
  • Author(s): Dianne Ascroft
  • Location(s): Ontario
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1980s

A fall fair, a cornered craftsman, an heirloom heist. When an antique quilt that is a cherished part of Fenwater’s past disappears from the market before her town’s fall fair, it’s up to Lois to resolve the quilt quandary....

The Horseman’s Graves

The Horseman’s Graves
  • Author(s): Jacqueline Baker
  • Location(s): Canada

The Innocents

The Innocents
  • Author(s): Michael Crummey
  • Location(s): Newfoundland & Labrador
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland’s northern coastline. Their home is a stretch of rocky shore governed by the feral ocean, by a relentless pendulum of abundance and murderous scarcity. Still children with...

The Language of Secrets

The Language of Secrets
  • Author(s): Ausma Zehanat Khan
  • Location(s): Toronto
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Detective Esa Khattak heads up Canada’s Community Policing Section, which handles minority-sensitive cases across all levels of law enforcement. Khattak is still under scrutiny for his last case, so he’s surprised when INSET, Canada’s national security team, calls him...

The Leopard of Cairo

The Leopard of Cairo
  • Author(s): Bayard and Holmes
  • Location(s): Montreal, Balochistan, Cairo
  • Genre(s): Espionage, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present

John Viera left his CIA fieldwork hoping for a “normal” occupation and a long-awaited family, but when a Pakistani engineer is kidnapped from a top-secret US project and diplomatic entanglements tie the government’s hands, the Intelligence Community turns to...

The Long Way Home

The Long Way Home
  • Author(s): Louise Penny
  • Location(s): Québec
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A #1 New York Times Bestseller, Louise Penny’s The Long Way Home is an intriguing Chief Inspector Gamache Novel. Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the Sûreté du Québec,...

The Madness Of Crowds

The Madness Of Crowds
  • Author(s): Louise Penny
  • Location(s): Québec
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Time and again, as the New Year approaches, that charge is leveled against Armand Gamache. It starts innocently enough. While the residents of the Québec village of Three Pines take advantage of the deep snow to ski and toboggan,...

The Maid’s Diary

The Maid’s Diary
  • Author(s): Loreth Anne White
  • Location(s): Canada
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A cunning, twisty, and unsettling novel of psychological suspense with a startling conclusion by Loreth Anne White, the Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestselling author of The Patient’s Secret. Kit Darling is a maid with a snooping problem. She’s...

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