Late one night, a man walks into the luxurious home of disgraced banker Harry McNamara and his wife Julie. And when the man launches an unspeakably brutal attack on Harry, a horror-struck Julie, frozen by fear, watches her husband die....
Detective and mystery fiction
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Author:Spain, JoSummary: - Author:Lee, Jen SookfongSummary:
Longlisted for the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award
A masterful and gripping novel from “an undeniably talented writer” (Globe and Mail)
On a sunny May morning, social worker Jessica...
- Author:Fisher, RudolphSummary:
An African king with a degree from Harvard who set himself up as a "conjure-man", a fortune teller, is murdered in 1930s Harlem. This is the first known mystery novel written by an African American.
- Author:Winspear, JacquelineSummary:
As Europe buckles under Nazi occupation, Maisie Dobbs investigates a possible murder that threatens devastating repercussions for Britain's war efforts in this latest installment in the New York Times bestselling mystery series....
- Author:Hancock, Anne MetteSummary:
Danish journalist Heloise Kaldan is in the middle of a nightmare. One of her sources has been caught lying, and she could lose her job over it. Then she receives the first in a series of cryptic and unsettling letters from a woman named...
- Author:Ace, CathySummary:
The sixth instalment in the Cait Morgan mystery series, a classic whodunit featuring an eccentric and funny female sleuth set on a Hawaiian cruise ship. Cait and Bud have set sail on a romantic and worry-free Hawaiian honeymoon cruise,...
- Author:Ace, CathySummary:
A dream vacation at a Mexican beach resort swiftly dissolves into a nightmare for criminologist and foodie Cait Morgan when her significant other, Bud Anderson, is wrongly arrested for the murder of the local florist, a gifted...
- Author:Ace, CathySummary:
The seventh book in the Cait Morgan series finds the eccentric Welsh criminologist–sleuth accompanying her husband Bud to Amsterdam to try to unravel a puzzling situation. To Bud’s surprise, he discovers he has a long-lost uncle, Jonas...
- Author:Ace, CathySummary:
The second book in the Cait Morgan Mysteries brings overindulgent foodie and criminologist Cait Morgan to the vineyards of British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley.A world-famous vintner is dead. And when a heartfelt plea to look into the...
- Author:Ace, CathySummary:
Winner of the 2015 Bony Blithe Award for Best Canadian Light Mystery With birthday celebrations in the cards, Cait Morgan and her significant other, retired cop Bud Anderson, travel to Las Vegas. As they are about to finish dinner in...
- Author:Ace, CathySummary:
A new book from Bony Blithe award–winning mystery author Cathy Ace where her sleuth Cait Morgan investigates a chilling cold case from a university in Budapest. A gig as guest lecturer at the university in Budapest should have been a...
- Author:Ace, CathySummary:
It's Cait and Bud's wedding weekend and for the first time she feels like a bride—or at least, she's supposed to. But then the rain won't quit, the supposedly romantic Welsh castle feels creepy, and there's a dead body on the stairs....
- Author:Ace, CathySummary:
In the south of France where hatred simmers in the heat, a man seemingly admired, and certainly feared, drops dead at a dinner party. All of the guests fall under suspicion, including Welsh-Canadian professor Cait Morgan. A...
- Author:Weeks, StephenSummary:
The Countess of Prague is the wonderfully exciting introduction to Beatrice von Falklenburg, known to her intimates as Trixie, who will lead us from Prague through Europe and occasionally beyond on a ten-book set of investigations that...
- Author:Lapena, ShariSummary:
Anne and Marco Conti seem to have it all--a loving relationship, a wonderful home, and their beautiful baby, Cora. But one night when they are at a dinner party next door, a terrible crime is committed. Suspicion immediately focuses on...
- Author:Kindellan-Sheehan, SheilaSummary:
Literary agent Madison Holmes is brutally attacked in her condo and left for dead, days after she sent rejection letters to four would-be authors. Lieutenant-Detective Toni Damiano catches this high profile case to the chagrin of the...
- Author:Hamilton, IanSummary:
Ava attends London Fashion Week for the launch of the PO fashion line, one of the major investments she and her partners in the Three Sisters-May Ling Wong and Amanda Yee-have made during the last year. With the exponential expansion of...
- Author:Hamilton, IanSummary:
Ava attends London Fashion Week for the launch of the PÖ fashion line, one of the major investments she and her partners in the Three Sisters - May Ling Wong and Amanda Yee - have made during the last year. With the exponential...
- Author:Shelton, PaigeSummary:
Wanted: A bold adventurer who wants to travel the world from a comfortable and safe spot behind a desk that has seen the likes of kings and queens, paupers and princes. A humble book and rare manuscript shop seeks a keenly intelligent...
- Author:Montrose, DavidSummary:
Véhicule Press launches its Ricochet Series of vintage mysteries with The Crime on Cotes des Neiges—a hardboiled detective novel set in Montreal originally published in 1951. At the centre of this novel, and two others by David Montrose...
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