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- Location(s): British Columbia, Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2010s
One day, about a year after the Japanese tsunami, frustrated author Ruth finds a Hello Kitty lunchbox washed up on the beach near her island home off Canada’s west coast. Subsequent inspection reveals that it contains a diary written...
- Location(s): Toronto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
AYESHA SHAMSI has a lot going on. Her dreams of being a poet have been overtaken by a demanding teaching job. Her boisterous Muslim family, and numerous (interfering) aunties, are professional naggers. And her flighty young cousin, about to...
- Location(s): Toronto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 978-0857302670
Jean lives in downtown Toronto with her husband and two kids. The proud owner of a thriving bookstore, she doesn t rattle easily not like she used to. But after two of her customers insist they ve seen her...
- Location(s): Canada, Great Falls, Winnipeg
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s to modern
Canada is divided into three untitled parts. The first, concerning the crime and its immediate fallout, is set in the mid-to-late 1950s in Great Falls, the Montana town that Ford has used as a backdrop in some previous stories....
- Location(s): Québec
- Genre(s): Crime, Suspense
- Era(s): Modern
Winter in Three Pines, and the sleepy village is carpeted in snow. It’s a time of peace and goodwill – until a scream pierces the biting air. A spectator at the annual Boxing Day curling match has been fatally...
- Location(s): Gulf of St Lawrence
When Detective Sime Mackenzie boards a light aircraft at Montreal’s St. Hubert airfield, he does so without looking back. For Sime, the 850-mile journey ahead represents an opportunity to escape the bitter blend of loneliness and regret that has...
Etta and Otto and Russell and James
- Location(s): Canada, Saskatchewan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
This is a love story that spans fifty years, three lives, two continents and an ocean. It tells of school teacher Etta, who settles in the Canadian prairies during the Great Depression and of the two pupils who fall...
- Location(s): Edmonton
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Leo Desroches is a reporter for an Edmonton newspaper and attends a murder scene and comes from a native background. Much of this is his story as he rebuilds his life and investigates the murder.
- Location(s): Toronto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The wide ravine that bisects the city is home to countless species of urban wildlife, including human waifs and strays. When Edal Jones can’t cope with the casual cruelty she encounters in her job as a federal wildlife officer,...
- Location(s): Québec, Vermont
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
One cold November day, a mysterious figure appears on the village green in Three Pines, causing unease, alarm and confusion among everyone who sees it. Chief Superintendent, Armand Gamache knows something is seriously wrong, but all he can do...
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