Longlisted for the ReLit Award Best Fiction 2006, Ottawa Xpress
Dead Man in the Orchestra Pit is a singularly Canadian novel featuring crime, culture, and sports. Written in the vein of John Kennedy Toole (Confederacy of Dunces)...
Canadian fiction
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Author:Osborne, TomSummary: - Author:Yee, Paul, Chan, HarveySummary:
These ten original ghost stories dramatize the history of Chinese immigration to North America -- from the poor village men who first came searching for gold in the late 1850s to the new immigrants who arrived from Hong Kong in the wake...
- Author:Gibbons, LarrySummary:
Calvin’s life is at a crossroads. He needs to figure out why he exists, or if he exists at all. He begins a relationship with Susie, who lives in Pi’tawk, a [fictional] First Nation’s reserve in Cape Breton. Susie is a bright, tell-it-...
- Author:Spano, RobinSummary:
The mayor falls down dead in the middle of a speech, and a university secret society promptly claims credit for the murder.
Clare Vengel is given her first undercover assignment: to pose as a student and penetrate the society....
- Author:Brett, AlexSummary:
It seems like a plum assignment to Morgan O'Brien. A government investigator specializing in science fraud, O'Brien snatches the opportunity to travel to her former home in Vancouver for what appears to be a simple case: the...
- Author:Erikson, StevenSummary:
Random House presents the audiobook edition of Deadhouse Gates: Malazan Book of the Fallen 2 by Steven Erikson, read by Ralph Lister. Weakened by events in Darujhistan, the Malazan Empire teeters on the brink of anarchy. In the vast...
- Author:Harvey, Sarah N. N.Summary:
Amy and Eric are the perfect couple. Popular, good-looking, happy. But after they are seen quarreling at a party, Amy disappears and Eric is the number-one suspect. Amy wakes up alone in a windowless, all-white room. She has no idea how...
- Author:Bowen, GailSummary:
Andy Boychuk is a successful Saskatchewan politician – until one sweltering August afternoon when the party faithful gather at a picnic. All of the key people in Boychuk’s life – family, friends, enemies – are there. Boychuk steps up to...
- Author:Calder, SusanSummary:
Paula Savard’s life has stalled. Her lukewarm love life, job as an insurance adjuster and grownup children are more frustrating than exciting. However, she gets more than she asked for when her once best friend, Callie, is murdered...
- Author:Russell, DavidSummary:
Winston Patrick, a successful lawyer but dissatisfied with his career defending the downtrodden of Vancouver’s criminal world, trades in the courtroom for the high school classroom. Soon Winston’s past life meets his present when a...
- Author:Buck, ErwinSummary:
Tracking down missing persons is nothing new to Walter Osborne, but his latest case is different. The person he has been hired to find is leading a double life, with few clues to his real identity. Joined by Aurora Weeks, a well-known...
- Author:Hawkins, JamesSummary:
Emotions run high when Queen Elizabeth II attempts to heal the schism between Christians and Muslims by attending a London mosque for Friday prayers. David Bliss, newly returned to duty while he tries to find a publisher for his novel,...
- Author:Tate, NikkiSummary:
In this high-interest sports novel for young readers, Ayla must face her fears and make her way back down the mountain after a guide is injured in a climbing accident.
- Author:Itani, FrancesSummary:
Elegantly written and profoundly moving, Frances Itani's debut novel is a tale of virtuosity and power. Set on the eve of the Great War, Deafening spans two continents and the lives of a young deaf woman and her beloved husband. Frances...
- Author:Itani, FrancesSummary:
Grania is deaf, a victim of scarlet fever at age five in early 1900s Canada. After learning sign language and speech she meets and marries Jim, with whom she develops a special vocabulary. World War I erupts, and they attempt to sustain...
- Author:Page, KathySummary:
"Born between the wars on a working-class London street, Harry Miles wins a scholarship and a chance to escape his station, but discovers instead that poetry is what offers him real direction. While searching for more of it he meets...
- Author:Banks, SydneySummary:
Liza, an orphan girl living on the cold streets of London in 1834, is able to rise above her squalid surroundings to bring joy to the lives of others. Although only 11, she displays amazing courage as she cares for a younger child and...
- Author:Cumyn, AlanSummary:
Winner of the OLA's Forest of Reading Silver Birch Express Award. Sylvia Tull -- the girl whose very glance turns Owen's face into a burning tomato -- has moved away from the small village where Owen lives with his parents and two...
- Author:Hanson-Finger, JeremySummary:
Janwar Gupta, a brilliant but neurotic medical student intern, has a patient die under suspicious circumstances at the start of his two-week anaesthesiology placement at the Ottawa Civic Hospital. Certain of his innocence, Janwar...
- Author:Southin, GwendolynSummary:
Journey into the fashionable art world of 1960s Vancouver as Margaret Spencer and Nat Southby return in Death as a Fine Art, the fifth book in the Margaret Spencer mystery series. The owner of the Silver Unicorn Art Gallery is dead, and...
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