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Deja Dead

Deja Dead
  • Author(s): Kathy Reichs
  • Location(s): Québec
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Gory detail, and compelling forensic expertise are a marker of this book. In Quebec a serial killer targets women, and severed remains are left in bags close to their bodies. Dr Temperance Brennan assists the police can tell from...

Halifax

Halifax
  • Author(s): Joan Mauch
  • Location(s): Nova Scotia
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Eleanor Hurley is a woman leading a life of quiet desperation when a single moment of violence changes everything. Eleanor kills a homicidal man to save a group of children. With this lethal act she is released from her...

Lunenberg

Lunenberg
  • Author(s): Keith Baker
  • Location(s): Nova Scotia
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Near the town of Lunenberg, Novia Scotia, a young boy witnesses an horrific crime. Years later, Scottish journalist John Taggart is headed for Canada to cover one of the biggest stories of his career, haunted by the mystery of...

Man and Other Natural Disasters

Man and Other Natural Disasters
  • Author(s): Nerys Parry
  • Location(s): Calgary
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century

Simon restores books. Minerva arrives to streamline the process, and bares a striking resemblance to his sister (who died through fire). Simon is coming to terms with tremendous loss within his family – he finally snaps arriving home one...

Murder on the Bow

Murder on the Bow
  • Author(s): John Ballem
  • Location(s): Calgary
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Calgary, Alberta – City of oil barons and equestrians: saints and sinners: the exquisitely rich and the desperately poor… and murderers. Detective Chris Crane knows all these worlds. He knows the high stakes games played by the politicians and...

The Last Summer

The Last Summer
  • Author(s): Andree Michaud
  • Location(s): Québec, Maine
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1967

Previously published as “Boundary” in hardback Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Fiction 2014 Winner of the Prix des Lecteurs for Best French Crime Novel at the Quais du Polar 2017 Winner of the Prix du Conseil des...

A Better Man

A Better Man
  • Author(s): Louise Penny
  • Location(s): Québec
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

‘One of the greatest crime writers of our times’ DENISE MINA There is more to solving a crime than following the clues. Welcome to Chief Inspector Gamache’s world of facts and feelings. The air is unbearably tense as Armand...

A Five-Letter Word for Love

A Five-Letter Word for Love
  • Author(s): Amy James
  • Location(s): Prince Edward Island
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): contemporary

A heartwarming and humorous romance in which an unlikely couple fall in love over Wordle. Twenty-seven-year-old Emily doesn’t have a lot going well in her life right now. She dreams of a creative career but works as a receptionist...

A Good House

A Good House
  • Author(s): Bonnie Burnard
  • Location(s): Stonebrook
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th century

Bill Chambers has come home from the Second World War with several fingers missing, but with his hope intact. He wants the best for his wife, Sylvia, and his children, Patrick, Paul and Daphne, and with his steady job...

A Great Reckoning

A Great Reckoning
  • Author(s): Louise Penny
  • Location(s): Québec
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

#1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny pulls back the layers to reveal a brilliant and emotionally powerful truth in her latest spellbinding novel. When an intricate old map is found stuffed into the walls of the bistro...

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