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...
Short stories
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Author:Boswell, Joan, Pike, SueSummary: - Author:Harvey, JohnSummary:
Five thrilling tales of mystery, mayhem, and murder from an exceptional quintet of Edgar, CWA Dagger, and National Book Award winners. Crime and literature make strange and sinister bedfellows in this winning anthology of book-themed...
- Author:Boucaud, S. I.Summary:
The stories and poetry in this book came to the writer between the years 2013 and 2017. She believes that stories have the power to disclose, heal, lead, and, for many, to transform. Her stories have been described as sometimes loving,...
- 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:Axelrod, StevenSummary:
In celebration of our 20th anniversary, Poisoned Pen Press has commissioned original short stories from thirty-five of its authors, past and present. Some names will be immediately recognizable to mystery aficionados-Kerry Greenwood...
- 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:Hasiuk, BrendaSummary:
We may be lost but we are never alone. That is the message to be found in Brenda Hasiuk’s new collection of short stories, Boy Lost in Wild. Adrift in unfamiliar surroundings, strangers to the strangers around them, the characters in...
- Author:Benjamin, ChrisSummary:
Twelve short stories about love, loss, failure, and acceptance by an award-winning author. The daughter of an alcoholic desperate to be loved. A father reliving a failed dream though his teenaged son. A struggling immigrant surprised to...
- Author:Winter, KathleenSummary:
What are boys and men thinking? That's what the wry, observant, heartbroken and hilarious girls and women in these stories want to know. What are they thinking when they warn women against adventure, gulp ale in moonlit truck wrecks,...
- Author:DiGiovanni, Caroline MorganSummary:
This is the third anthology of Italian Canadian writers organized and edited by Caroline Morgan Di Giovanni with support from Centro Scuola e Cultura Italiana, Toronto. The first Italian Canadian Voices in 1984 contained the first...
- Author:Wilkins, CharlesSummary:
Breakfast at the Hoito brings together a collection of stories and essays on the dreamlike world of Lake Superior’s north shore … on wilds and wildlife, people and places.Spend a day in the kitchen of the famed Hoito Restaurant in...
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The latest volume in the Hugo award-winning Infinity Project series, showcasing all-original hard science fiction stories from the leading voices in genre fiction. Sense of wonder is the lifeblood of science fiction. When we encounter...
- Author:Butcher, JimSummary:
An all-new Dresden Files story headlines this urban fantasy short story collection starring the Windy City's favorite wizard. The world of Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, is rife with intrigue--and creatures...
- Author:Adams, MicheleSummary:
In this sparkling collection of stories drawn from the surreal edge of life, playful irony vies with more poignant evocations of solitude, mortality, and the dawn of sexual awareness - all bodied forth in a language that is precise,...
- Author:Roig, DeniseSummary:
Brilliant is a collection of short stories set in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, a polyglot city where cultures collide and converge, where money -- and sometimes justice -- is no object, where in less than two...
- Author:Roig, DeniseSummary:
Brilliant is a collection of short stories set in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, a polyglot city where cultures collide and converge, where money -- and sometimes justice -- is no object, where in less than two...
- Author:Casares, OscarSummary:
These nine stories follow a collection of unforgettable characters trying to get by while living in the South Texas border town of Brownsville.
- Author:McLellan, DonSummary:
A man seeking the high life realizes too late that he has destroyed his possibilities for happiness. Four junkies wait anxiously for a drug dealer who seems to have forgotten their existence. A gang leader attempts to navigate racism,...
- Author:Dandeneau, LouiseSummary:
Ces courtes nouvelles sur le thème de la vengeance font découvrir avec délectation des comportements et des relations humaines souvent hors du commun, des personnages vindicatifs agissant dans une logique implacable pour tenter d...
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