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The Killing Circle

The Killing Circle
  • Author(s): Andrew Pyper
  • Location(s): Toronto
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A spine-chilling, mind-twisting new psychological thriller in which a writing circle is haunted by a serial killer, from the acclaimed author of Lost Girls Who is the Sandman: dream figure or killer? When Patrick Rush, journalist, single father and...

The Lucky Elephant Restaurant

The Lucky Elephant Restaurant
  • Author(s): Garry Ryan
  • Location(s): Calgary
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

When the young daughter of popular radio talk show host Bobbie Reddie disappears along with Bobbie’s ex-husband, Detectives Lane and Harper are on the case. Haunted by flashbacks from a previous missing child case, Lane once again takes to...

The Missing One

The Missing One
  • Author(s): Lucy Atkins
  • Location(s): British Columbia
  • Era(s): Modern

The loss of her mother has left Kali McKenzie with too many unanswered questions. But while clearing out Elena’s art studio, she finds a drawer packed with postcards, each bearing an identical one-line message a Canadian gallery owner called...

The Orenda

The Orenda
  • Author(s): Joseph Boyden
  • Location(s): Ontario
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1640s

1640s: The New World In the remote winter landscape a brutal massacre and the kidnapping of a young Iroquois girl violently re-ignites a deep rift between two tribes. The girl s captor, Bird, is one of the Huron Nation...

The Outlander

The Outlander
  • Author(s): Gil Adamson
  • Location(s): Alberta
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

On a moonlit night in 1903, a mysterious young woman flees alone across the Canadian wilderness, one quick step ahead of her pursuers. Mary Boulton is nineteen years old, half mad, and widowed – by her own hand. Tearing...

The Sea Road

The Sea Road
  • Author(s): Margaret Elphinstone
  • Location(s): Greenland, Iceland, Newfoundland & Labrador
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 11th Century

A haunting, compelling historical novel, “The Sea Road” is a daring re-telling of the 11th-century Viking exploration of the North Atlantic from the viewpoint of one extraordinary woman. Gudrid lives at the remote edge of the known world, in...

The Tenderness of Wolves

The Tenderness of Wolves
  • Author(s): Stef Penney
  • Location(s): Canada
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical
  • Era(s): Second half 19th Century

Mrs Ross, who is the narrator, is a Scottish pioneer and ex-asylum inmate, who discovers the body of a French trapper, murdered and scalped in his house near Dove River. The search for a murderer in a small Canadian...

The Unquiet Dead

The Unquiet Dead
  • Author(s): Ausma Zehanat Khan
  • Location(s): Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1990s and modern

One man is dead. But thousands were his victims. Can a single murder avenge that of many? Scarborough Bluffs, Toronto: the body of Christopher Drayton is found at the foot of the cliffs. Muslim Detective Esa Khattak, head of...

The Winter Vault

The Winter Vault
  • Author(s): Anne Michaels
  • Location(s): Nubia, Toronto
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s onwards

Egypt, 1964. The great temple at Abu Simbel must be dismantled and resurrected high above the rising waters of the Aswan Dam. This daunting task is overseen by Avery, a young engineer who, at the same time, is carefully...

We Were the Salt of the Sea

We Were the Salt of the Sea
  • Author(s): Roxanne Bouchard
  • Location(s): The Gaspé Peninsula
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

As Montrealer Catherine Day sets foot in a remote fishing village and starts asking around about her birth mother, the body of a woman dredges up in a fisherman’s nets. Not just any woman, though: Marie Garant, an elusive,...

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