New Edition as part City of Vancouver’s Legacy Book Project, with foreword by historian Daniel Francis.
Who Killed Janet Smith? examines one of the most infamous and still unsolved murder cases in Canadian history: the 1924...
Murder
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Author:McGrath, M. J.Summary:Half Inuit, half outsider, Edie Kiglatuk is the best guide in her corner of the Arctic. When a man is murdered under her watch, she sets out to investigate but is shocked by the suicide of someone close to her. The events seem unrelated...
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Author:Nixon, Joan LowerySummary:After making contact with the spirit world during a near-death experience, Sarah moves to Houston with her parents and receives otherworldly messages about a murder committed in her house.
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Author:Mole, RichSummary:In 1874, the newly formed North West Mounted Police marched west to shut down unscrupulous liquor traders who had devastated the lives of many First Nations people. The Mounties` famous trek heralded over 50 years of "whisky wars" in...
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Author:Meyrick, DenzilSummary:When the body of a young woman is washed up on an idyllic beach on the West Coast of Scotland, D.C.I. Jim Daley is despatched from Glasgow to lead the investigation. Far from home and his troubled marriage, Daley finds himself a...
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Author:Ford, RhysSummary:He was dead. And it was murder most foul. If erasing a man’s existence could even be called murder. When Damien Mitchell wakes, he finds himself without a life or a name. The Montana asylum’s doctors tell him he’s delusional and his...
- Author:Gailey, SarahSummary:
A moving, darkly funny novel about six teens whose magic goes wildly awry from Magic for Liars author Sarah Gailey, who Chuck Wendig calls an "author to watch." Keeping your magic a secret is hard. Being in love with your best...
- Author:Olshaker, Mark, Douglas, John E.Summary:
From John Douglas, the legendary FBI criminal profiler, #1 New York Times bestselling author, and inspiration for the Netflix show Mindhunter?comes a chilling journey inside the mind and crimes of Larry Gene Bell, one of the most...
- Author:Kenna, AlexSummary:
Kate Myles was a promising Los Angeles police detective--until an accident and opioid addiction blew up her family and destroyed her career. Struggling to rebuild her life, Kate decides to try her hand at private detective work, but she...
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Author:Halfhill, MichaelSummary:Eighteen-year-old Jan Phillips is down and out, hustling johns in Philadelphia’s Tenderloin District, when he catches the eye of Tim Morris, a powerful lawyer with ties to a secret organization. Against his better judgment, Jan is soon...
- Author:Clark, Mary HigginsSummary:
This is a novel of suspense about two friends, Molly and Fran, who are caught up in the aftermath of a vicious crime. Molly was convicted of murder. Years later, when she is released from prison, she involves Fran in a plan to clear...
- Author:Alsterdal, ToveSummary:
"Beautifully elegiac and intricately plotted, this is Nordic noir at its best."-People Winner of the Glass Key Award for Best Nordic Crime Novel. Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year. Shortlisted for the Best Swedish Book of the Year...
- Author:Cooper, BeckySummary:
Forty years after the fact, Becky Cooper, a curious Harvard undergrad, first heard whispers of a murdered student, one bludgeoned to death by a professor to cover up an affair. Though that motive proved false, the story that unfolded,...
- Author:Whitaker, ChrisSummary:
With We begin at the end, Chris Whitaker has written an extraordinary novel about people who deserve so much more than life serves them. At times devastating, with flashes of humor and hope throughout, it is ultimately an inspiring tale...
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Author:Carlisle, Kelly GreySummary:FOR FANS OF THE GLASS CASTLE, now a major motion picture starring Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts "Moving and complex, this is an exquisitely written tale of perseverance and unconditional love. A worthwhile addition to...
- Author:Whitlow, RobertSummary:
Hot-shot Atlanta attorney Tom Crane is poised to become a partner in his firm when his father dies in a boating accident. Then on that same day, he loses his job and his girlfriend, as well. Returning to his hometown to close out his...
- Author:Hutchison, KatySummary:
The dramatic story of a life forever changed, and of how unthinkable horror, the murder of a husband and father of young twins, became a transformative gift. A story about triumph over tragedy, and a journey that breaks all the rules....
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Author:Williams, RobSummary:Marla Drake, the untamable costumed adventurer known as Miss Fury, fought Nazis with wild abandon not just during World War II, but—due to a scientific mishap—throughout time, as well. Now trapped in the 1943 of a parallel universe, she...
- Author:Baldacci, DavidSummary:
Amos Decker and Alex Jamison investigate the death of a woman whose body was expertly autopsied and then dumped in the open, which is only the beginning of the oddities surrounding the case.
- Author:French, NicciSummary:
The thrilling third novel starring London psychotherapistturned-detective Frieda Klein-- from internationally bestselling author Nicci French Nicci French' s Blue Monday and Tuesday' s Gone introduced the brilliant yet...
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