Music may soothe the savage breast, but in this fifth collection of witty and wicked crime fiction from the Ladies’ Killing Circle, music provides the background for tales of murder and mayhem. Eighteen stories by Canadian women crime...
Canadian fiction
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Author:Boswell, Joan, Pike, SueSummary: - Author:McMurchy-Barber, GinaSummary:
An expedition to investigate an old sunken ship teaches Peggy lessons about herself. When archaeologists discover a two-hundred-year-old shipwreck, Peggy Henderson decides she’ll do whatever it takes to take part in the expedition....
- Author:Egan, CatherineSummary:
Now a formidable Sorceress, Eliza Tok at sixteen is a world away from the unknowing child she once was. But unlike the previous Shang Sorceresses, Eliza will always act out of love, for those she loves, above all else. Above even the...
- Author:Reichs, KathySummary:
Temperance Brennan and long-time flame Detective Ryan are on a case involving the deaths of three infant siblings in Montreal. When the children's mother takes off in the middle of the investigation, Tempe and Ryan must join forces with...
- Author:Evanson, Tawhida TanyaSummary:
In this sweeping, allusive novel, the celebrated poet, dervish, and oral storyteller Tawhida Tanya Evanson comes to terms with what it means to stand on one's own two feet in an uncertain world. The acclaimed Antiguan-Canadian artist...
- Author:Batten, JackSummary:
Mystery-solving criminal lawyer Crang returns to investigate the disappearance of two rare books. Fletcher Marshall is a Toronto antiquarian book dealer, internationally respected in the business. One night, someone blows the safe in...
- Author:Tremblay-D'Essiambre, LouiseSummary:
La suite de L'infiltrateur. Les portes du pénitencier de Saint-Anne-des Plaines se referment derrière Vincent Savoie... ex-policier. À sa sortie, Élise aura 10 ans! Commence alors un long périple pour Vincent Savoie. D'abord survivre à...
- Author:Walters, Eric, Williams, JeromeSummary:
When Nick and Kia are invited to former Toronto Raptor Jerome "Junk Yard Dog" Williams' basketball camp in Washington, DC, they quickly discover that this is no ordinary summer hoop camp. This is a basketball boot camp that focuses on...
- Author:Januska, MichaelSummary:
Prohibition means two things in the Border city of Windsor, Ontario: big business, and big trouble. Riverside Drive Jack McCloskey returned to Windsor, Ontario, from the Great War lost in a battle with his inner demons. When he...
- Author:Ferguson, JennySummary:
A fractured depiction of life after a death in a bifurcated Alberta/Saskatchewan community.
- Author:Hoog, Adrian deSummary:
A virus destroys the communication network of the Canadian diplomatic service. Carson Pryce, a reclusive, moody intelligence analyst, and Rachel Dunn, a brilliant diplomat with a glowing humanitarian track record, are implicated in the...
- Author:Taylor, SaraSummary:
A visceral story of friendship, music, and bloody revenge
Rachel feels like she doesn’t fit in — until she finds heavy metal and meets Fern, a kindred spirit. The two form their own band, but the metal scene turns out to be no...
- Author:Whittall, ZoeSummary:
Welcome to Montreal in the months before the 1995 referendum. Riot Girl gets bought out and mass marketed as the Spice Girls, and gays are gaining some legitimacy, but the queers are rioting against assimilation, cocktail AIDS drugs are...
- Author:Addison, MarilouSummary:
J'ai lâché le volant une fraction de seconde seulement. Juré. Je ne l'ai pas fait exprès. Pas que je m'en sois voulu, de toute manière. J'étais plutôt indifférente. Sauf que ça allait m'occasionner...
- Author:Lego, M.L., Jetté, Bruno, Foster, Shawn, Lego, Jim, Gagnon, Marlène, Larose, Patrick, Damord, MarcSummary:
Bouillon de nouvelles. Des nouvelles au goût de tous! Que vous soyez amateur d’épouvante, de mysticisme, de faits vécus, d’intrigues, de satirique ou de féerie, vous trouverez, dans ce recueil, des nouvelles dont l’originalité et l’...
- Author:Linda LerouxSummary:
Ce roman relate les trois dernières journées de travail de Lily, une mère monoparentale dans la cinquantaine, secrétaire depuis plus de vingt années au service de l'imprimerie Phil O. Paradis. Epuisée par une confrontation...
- Author:Michaud, Andrée A.Summary:
In the deep woods of the Maine borderlands, the legend of huntsman Pete Landry is still told around cottage campfires to scare children, a tragic story of love, lust, and madness. During the early summer of 1967, inseparable teenage...
- Author:Bechtel, GregSummary:
In his confident debut, Greg Bechtel offers ten charged stories about the impossible-turned-possible—secrets, paranoia, sex, conspiracies, and magic—that the strangeness of the world around us. Boundary Problems vibrates on the edge of...
- Author:Bechtel, GregSummary:
Greg Bechtel offers ten charged stories about the impossible-turned-possible secrets, paranoia, sex, conspiracies, and magic that will appeal to fans of Neil Gaiman, China Mieville, Barbara Gowdy, and Jonathan Lethem, and readers of...
- Author:Pchajek, JasonSummary:
"The year is 2120, and Nikos Wulf is at the top of his game. Within Winnipeg’s sublevels, he is the undisputed king of bounty hunters, working for the elite Bounty Commission Eco-Terror Taskforce. The job: defend the ecological...
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