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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...

The Maid’s Secret

The Maid’s Secret
  • Author(s): Nita Prose
  • Location(s): Toronto
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Molly the maid is no stranger to secrets… She sees everything behind closed doors at the Regency Grand hotel: wiping away the dust and grime of guests passing through. But one secret lies much closer to home. An old...

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...

The Nature Of The Beast

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

The Nature of the Beast is a New York Times bestselling Chief Inspector Gamache novel from Louise Penny. Hardly a day goes by when nine year old Laurent Lepage doesn’t cry wolf. From alien invasions, to walking trees, to...

The Nymph and the Lamp

The Nymph and the Lamp
  • Author(s): Thomas H Raddall
  • Location(s): Nova Scotia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

The poignant story of Isabel Jardin, a strong and sensitive woman, and the men in her life. Set in the 1920s, the story unfolds against the wild desolation of a wind swept island off the coast of Nova Scotia.

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