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Dead in the water
Over eighty per cent of Canadians live near a body of water and that means when Canadians turn to crime, somebody usually ends up all wet. In this anthology of original crime fiction, the authors celebrate that most Canadian of locations: the ocean, lake, or river near you.
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Forever dead
Zoology professor Cordi O'Callaghan keeps one stumble ahead of a murderer as she follows a path littered with motives.
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Tending the remnant damage
Peters makes her fiction debut with a collection of stories whose characters have seemingly everyday experiences that glimmer with the extraordinary.
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Young renny
Young Renny takes us even farther back in the Whiteoak family saga to 1906. Renny, the young master of Jalna, is just 18. The plot thickens when two outsiders join the mix: a gypsy woman who seduces Renny, and a distant cousin from Ireland who befriends Gran, moves into Jalna, and spies on the fa...
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Red ice for a shroud
A young Québécoise sneaks off to meet her Algonquin lover in an isolated hunting camp on the Migiskan Reserve. Five days later, Meg Harris discovers her frozen and brutalized body.
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Suite as sugar
From Winnipeg winterscapes to Toronto’s condo culture, from Havana’s haunted streets to Trinidad’s calamitous environs, the stories in Suite as Sugar are permeated with the violence of colonial histories, personal and intimate, in settings where the veil between the living and the dead is obscured.
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The applecross spell
In the legend-steeped Borders region of Scotland, a writer discovers the hidden past of the man she loves and the truth of her mothers teachings.
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This thing of darkness
A controversial psychiatrist is found beaten to death on a street corner in Ottawa's Byward Market. Initially, the killing appears to be merely a mugging gone wrong, but Inspector Green's complex investigation leaves him grappling with the ultimate meaning of justice.
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Investigating women
As well as the fifteen investigating women in the book, Skene-Melvin's introduction describes hundreds of female sleuths and their creators in an in-depth analysis of women detective fiction by Canadians.
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The next rainy day
A gritty fast-moving exploration of loss and of finding hope in the wake of personal disaster.
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Damselfish
In this debut novel, two sisters and their mother are brought together in search for their missing father and husband, but the womens reunion is a grudging one.
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Victim impact
Homicide becomes more than an academic study for Toronto criminologist Ted Boudreau when his own suburban home is burglarized, with deadly results. Was his computer targetted because of his interest in a secretive biker gang?
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Grave deeds
A simple reunion with her great-aunt and her cousin leads Rosalie to a chilling and unexpected legacy.
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Whiteoaks of jalna
The captivating saga of the Whiteoak family continues, with more rivalries, tangled relationships, and secret love affairs.
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Cue the dead guy
In the sequel to Down in the Dumps, Polly finds herself touring as set and puppet designer for a small rural theatre company. When the stage manager fails to appear for the first rehearsal, Polly has to step in and do the job. The police won't show an interest, so Polly investigates alone, unwitt...
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The river runs orange
Meg Harris discovers the skull and bones of a woman whose very existence takes the archeological world by storm. But when her neighbours, the Migiskan Algonquin, declare their rights to the ancient remains, Meg becomes embroiled in a fight that pits ancient beliefs against modern ones and leads e...
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Moving water
The story of Rose Bachmann, a woman at mid-tide in a life awash in the debris of a mysterious marriage in the magical coastline of the North Pacific.
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A year less a day
In this fourth installment the popular mystery series, Canadian detective Mike Phillips asks Inspector David Bliss to help solve a baffling case of stolen identities.
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Little boy blues
Camilla's looking forward to cutting loose at Bluesfest, Ottawa's huge open-air extravaganza, and to seeing the tail-end of her annoying office assistant, Alvin, who is finally quitting. Then news comes from the East Coast. Alvin's younger brother has vanished in the midst of a Canada Day crowd i...
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Lovelace and button (international investigators) inc.
A bizarre series of suicides by seniors in England raises the eyebrows of newly promoted Chief Inspector David Bliss.
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And on the surface die
RCMP Corporal Holly Martin takes charge of her first post, a detachment in tiny Fossil Bay on the wild south coast of Vancouver Island. Her first day starts with a distress call. A scuba diver has found the body of a girl in the surf. A tragic drowning caused by a fall? Or murder?
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Hail mary corner
Bill, 16, lives in a Benedictine seminary. On the road to certain expulsion, he discovers two secrets that trigger an event that may haunt him for the rest of his life.
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Sea of tranquility
When the Nova Scotia government decides to shut down ferry service to Ragged Island, its residents see their world beginning to disappear.
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Skyfisher
Fleeing for his life, Brad Evans escapes Manhattan and hides in a trailer in the country. There he writes an expos of Phasmatia, the world's first great Internet religion, and its megalomaniacal unholy messiah, Sky Fisher.
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A studied death
While the students blame the lack of security on campus for Sophias murder, Rosalie investigates Sophias life in search of a motive.
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A charlie salter omnibus
The first three books of the well-loved Charlie Salter mystery series: The Night the Gods Smiled, Smoke Detector, and Death in the Old Country.
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Exile
For Carlos Romero Estvez, freedom from danger means a life in exile. But life in exile turns out to be a new kind of prison.
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Missing: presumed dead
Detective Inspector David Bliss has been transferred from London, England, to Hampshire. On what seems to be an open-and-shut case, the police cant find the body.
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Blackflies are murder
Its high summer in Northern Ontario, where everyone is bear bait, even the bears. Gunshots chase Belle Palmer from her quiet forest paths. Then, on her remote lakeside road, the savage and unexplainable murder of an elderly neighbour puts her on guard against two-footed killers.
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Murder in a-major
Schumann and Brahms are the stars of Torgovs first Hermann Preiss mystery. Musical egos clash and murder ensues in mid-19th century Germany.
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Atmospheres apollinaire
Based on the life of Guillaume Apollinaire, early twentieth century French poet and critic, this sparkling novel recreates the spirit of the man and the age.
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Three to a loaf
Three to a Loaf is the page-turning drama of a young Anglo-German Canadian smuggled into Germany during the First World War to discover the Imperial General Staff's top-secret plan to break the deadlock on the Western Front.
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One day, hard and clear
A poignant novel about two best friends sharing yearning, rejection, and lip gloss in a close-knit blue-collar town.It’s 2004 and childhood friends Sami and Lucy are on the edge of adulthood. Lucy knows what she is going to do — she’s going to school and getting out. But Sami, caught in an endles...
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I am not most places
These short stories are about the curse of modernity: displacement. Cumyn’s prose is sparse and direct, the violence just beneath the surface casual and foreboding.
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Combat journal for place d'armes
Both a study of the emergence of a characters true self through his homosexual experiences and the decay of Canadian, and especially French-Canadian, traditions, Place dArmes was named one of the top 100 most important books in Canadian history.
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Dead ends
Intrepid detective Jack Taggart is hurled into a world where morality, justice, and the legal system are pitted against one another. Taggart and his partner go undercover to join one of a coalition of gangs at war in B.C., and find themselves immersed in drive-by shootings, meth labs, retaliatory...
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Trumpets sound no more
In 1840, the theatre world in London is shocked by the brutal killing of one of its youngest and most successful entrepreneurs. Inspector Owen Endersby, of the recently formed London Detective Police Force, is called upon to apprehend the culprit before Christmas Eve.
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When boomers go bad
This anthology of short crime fiction from the Ladies' Killing Circle takes a spirited look at baby boomers as they go from young, hairy and hip to old, bald and bad. The children of the sixties are are up to no good in another wicked anthology from this prolific collective of writers.
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Innocent murderer
Zoology professor Cordi O’Callaghan becomes entangled in the deaths of two of her fellow passengers aboard the Susanna Moodie, a tourist ship in the Canadian Arctic. The fatalities are ruled accidental, but Cordi suspects they’re anything but.
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The son of the house
Pulsing with vitality and intense human drama, Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia’s debut is set against four decades of vibrant Nigeria and celebrates the resilience of women as they navigate and transform what remains a man’s world.
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Deadly lessons
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 student accuses a fellow colleague of a teacher-student love affair.
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Cowboy
The story of Gilles Deschnes, a 20-something who moves from Montreal to Grande-Ourse, a town haunted by the grisly memory of a 12-year-old murder.
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Planet reese
Planet Reese is dark and wickedly funny story of a man holding onto his sanity against all odds in an increasingly unhinged world.
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The extortionist and his dolls
Jessica is back, sleuthing in Parkdale. She and a group of girls are on the trail of an extortionist whose young victims are female refugee students at their school.
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Let the day perish
Petersen beautifully reins in the confusion of men fathers, brothers, lovers in search of memories long faded in the wash of fast-running streams and firelight.
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The rise and fall of magic wolf
“A sumptuously written story about culinary ambition, restaurant-world vice, and the frailties of the heart.” — KEVIN CHONG, author of The Double Life of Benson YuRestaurateur Teo Wolf’s culinary fame is peaking just as a series of scandals and reckless decisions threaten to destroy everything.Te...
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Flam grub
Flam Grub is the tale of a young man's struggle to escape the netherworld of his own life and come to terms with the curse of an unusual name.
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Body blows
When the live-in servant and not-so-secret lover of ex-boxer Joe Grundys millionaire boss Leo Alexander turns up murdered, its up to Joe to get to the bottom of the incident in order to clear Leos name. But Leos past serves up more surprises than Grundy bargains for.
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The dead don't get out much
Remembrance Day is a proud day for Camilla MacPhee's good friend, Mrs. Violet Parnell, one of five thousand Canadian women to go overseas during World War II. But the next day she has vanished. Camilla, with only a few letters and documents to guide her, follows her friend to Tuscany.
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Mary wakefield
Mary Wakefield is third on the timeline of the Jalna series. Mary, a young Englishwoman, is hired to care for Philips motherless children, Meg and Renny. When Philip falls in love with the beautiful governess, the community is scandalized and his mother, Adeline, does all she can to discourage th...
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Fits like a rubber dress
At 29, three things occur to Indigo Blackwell: she hates her job in public relations, her life is decidedly unremarkable, and death is inevitable.
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A different hurricane
Two gay men with a lifetime of secrets face their insular, homophobic island’s rancour.Growing up in neighbouring villages on the tiny island nation of St Vincent, teenage best friends Gordon and Allen are secret lovers until they are forced apart their community’s traditional expectations and th...
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On the threshold
A wonderful weave of poetry and prose, this anthology reflects on moments that have formed the crucible for life in the twenty-first century.
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A place apart
Fifteen-year-old Cathy Mugan, surrounded by violence, longs to find "a place apart." An unforgettable debut from Canadas next major author.
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Gone but still here
As her short-term memory declines, Mary revisits her memories of the 1960s, of her long-dead husband and the racism they experienced as a interracial couple. Sage, her daughter’s golden retriever, offers solace and narrates part of this moving story.
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After elias
When the airplane Elias is flying crashes into the sea one week before their wedding day, Coen is left with nothing but a cryptic message. As fragments of the past come to the surface in the aftermath, Coen is forced to question everything he thought he knew about Elias and their life together.
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Death goes shopping
Being promotions director of a large shopping mall isn't the most stress-free job on the planet, but Jenny Turnbull enjoys it and is darn good at it. But her job becomes quite a bit more gruesomely stressful when an unseen gunman goes on a spree in a bloody food court massacre during her special ...
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Down in the dumps
There is a killer at work in the sleepy village of Cedar Falls. The peaceful order of puppet-maker Polly Deacon's back-to-nature rural life is violently interrupted when she finds her best friend Francy's abusive husband lying dead in the dump with a hole in his chest.
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Overexposed
When a stranger shows up dead on photographer Tom McCalls roof deck, Tom finds himself the target of a lot of unwanted interest.
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The hemingway caper
As Joe Barley investigates a case, he stumbles across the story of a missing manuscript containing writings by a young Ernest Hemingway.
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Something remains
Andrew Christiansen, a war photographer turned cabdriver, is having a bad year. His mother has just died; his father, on the verge of a nervous breakdown, gets arrested; and hes married to a woman he doesnt love. Keeping Andrew sane is his beloved camera through which he captures the many Toronto...
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Anxious gravity
Feeling guilty over his loss of faith, Gideon Gast doesnt know where he is, but he has a good idea how he got there.
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Even so
Angela Morrison, an unhappy housewife, volunteers at a local food pantry run by the Sisters of Saint Joseph, where she meets Sister Eileen. After her recklessness causes a terrible tragedy, the only person Angela can turn to for help is Sister Eileen.
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She felt no pain
Summer on Vancouver Island starts with the discovery of a dead homeless man. The autopsy reveals a combination of heroin and a synthetic opiate. RCMP Corporal Holly Martin believes that he had hidden something of value at the site of his death. As she struggles to connect the dots, a record droug...
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What they said about luisa
An enchanting tale of the complex and fascinating life of Luisa Abrego of Seville, an emancipated woman who forges a new future for herself in colonial Mexico and gets caught in the Spanish Inquisition.Luisa Abrego, an enslaved woman in Seville, is impregnated by her master, then set free upon hi...
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Playing sarah bernhardt
Harriet's acting career suffers when memory loss forces her to quit her role as Sarah Bernhardt. Troubled, she accepts the role of Mazo de la Roche in small-town Saskatchewan. Harriet discovers she was chosen for this role because she holds the key to Mazo's past. The play, the role, and the town...
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Find me again
Rebecca Temple meets a Polish count who has written a novel based on his family, which he claims is descended from royalty, then finds him dead and his manuscript missing.
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Lake crescent
Laura Reagan and her team are shooting an episode of Creature X on Cressie, a legendary giant eel, in Robert’s Arm, Newfoundland. But what begins as a simple TV shoot takes a drastic turn when a body is discovered in the lake by the team.
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Our only shield
In the opening turmoil of the Second World War, a Canadian is spirited into occupied Holland to assess the resistance, an ambitious but insecure Nazi officer is determined to crush Dutch opposition, and a brilliant young woman's life is irrevocably changed by both men.
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The unexpected and fictional career change of jim kearns
Jim Kearnss wife assigns him a series of life-affirming tasks to complete while he suffers through mid-life discord.
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Woodstock rising
In this black comedy shot full of the social and political issues of the time, a group of college students, led by a young Canadian graduate, set out to put a satellite into orbit as an homage to the recent Woodstock Festival.
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The bliss house
All that’s left of the Bliss clan is seventeen-year-old Cam, his older cousin Wes, and little Dorie, now that Gran passed and Gramps lies dead in the cold cellar. After Children’s Aid pays a visit to their secluded farm, the unlikely trio head north, a dead body wrapped in the trunk.
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Centenary at jalna
It has been a century since Captain Philip and Adeline Whiteoak arrived in Canada and built their legacy. While this should be a time of festivity for the clan, tension and discontent surround the forthcoming marriage. As the celebrations loom closer, the question remains: Will the Whiteoaks be a...
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Phantom ships
Novelist and poet Claude Le Bouthillier draws on his Acadian and New Brunswick heritage to create this account of the end of the French Empire in Canada.
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Granite
Lish MacPherson discovers that her arrival in the small town of Seven Springs may be a matter of destiny when she discovers that her new acquaintance, Noah, shares with her both a common ancestry and a common recurring dream about riding a stag to some unknown destination. Their dream is echoed b...
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Oxford soju club
A SHELF AWARENESS BEST BOOK OF 2025 • A CBC BOOKS BEST CANADIAN FICTION BOOK OF 2025 • A CRIMEREADS BEST BOOK OF 2025 The natural enemy of a Korean is another Korean.When North Korean spymaster Doha Kim is mysteriously killed in Oxford, his protégé, Yohan Kim, chases the only breadcrumb given to ...
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Murder, eh?
Northern Ontario realtor Belle Palmer is showing the lakefront mansion of a prominent businesswoman when she discovers the lady strangled in her bathtub. Could this third break-and-enter death reveal a serial killer at large in the Nickel Capital?
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The yellow briar
The charming remembrance of an Irish orphan who escapes the Great Famine of 1840's Ireland and comes to the New World to seek a fresh start in the pioneer hinterland of Canada West (Ontario).
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Just keep breathing
Just as Jeanie decides to leave her job as a horse trainer, deferring to her husband's movie industry career, one of the principals of the race track where she works is murdered and she is thrown back into the maelstrom of racetrack politics and the care of the valuable horses.
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A darker light
A photographers world comes crashing down when she is diagnosed with macular degeneration and she must face giving up her career and her passion.
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The space between
Haunted by the love he threw away and his former lover's mysterious murder, the nameless narrator leaves his job and sets off in search of direction. On an epic journey over land and sea, his heart and mind struggle to find common ground. Mile by mile he develops justification for an act of viole...
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Annapurna's bounty
Mingling sweet, sour, and spicy notes, this inspiring retelling of diverse food legends from India, paired with delicious recipes, will feed mind, body, heart, and soul.Annapurna, the Indian Goddess of Nourishment, presides over a rich harvest of stories reimagined for the twenty-first-century pa...
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Repeat this and you're dead
With gritty and unforgiving realism, these "short short stories" cast a harsh eye on the Ireland of the last half of this century.
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Lucky strike
Lucky Strike is a light-hearted laugh-out-loud mystery with a cast of characters who epitomize life Down East. Eric Spratt, a conservative accountant from Toronto, is forced to flee to the remote Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia. Within days he is embroiled in the locals nefarious doings and wild ant...
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Murder as a fine art
Two people are found dead at the Banff Centre for the Arts, and aspiring painter Laura Janeway launches her own investigation of the crimes.
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A certain mr. takahashi
Originally published in 1985, A Certain Mr. Takahashi won the coveted Seal First Novel Award and the Books in Canada / W.H. Smith First Novel Award.
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Visiting elizabeth
Villeneuve harnesses the power of two languages in a story that pulls the reader through the streets of Montreal and the recesses of Arianes mind.
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Loose ends
Undercover Mountie Jack Taggart investigates the murders of his niece and nephew. His new partner is quickly drawn into a world of corruption and retribution.
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Arctic blue death
The fourth in the Meg Harris series follows Meg's adventures into the Candian Arctic as she searches for the truth about the disappearance of her father when she was a child. Meg travels to Iqaluit to investigate and is sucked into the world of Inuit art forgery.
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Morning at jalna
It is 1863 and life at Jalna is peaceful. Philip, who will grow up to become the master of Jalna, has just come into the world, while Augusta, Nicholas, and Ernest are children. However, the Sinclairs come to visit and the Whiteoaks begin to suspect that the Sinclairs have a deep and dangerous se...
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The silence on the shore
Originally published in 1962, Hugh Garners ambitious novel tells the tale of Grace Hill, the landlady of a Toronto boarding house. She is a middle-aged snoop and an overweight nudist, and is surrounded by various boarders with their own troubles and secrets.
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Salt fish girl
Salt Fish Girl is the mesmerizing tale of an ageless female character who shifts shape and form through time and place.
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Depth of field
When a photographer is beaten and left for dead on her way to an assignment to photograph Anna Waverley's boat, her business partner, Tom McCall, searches for an explanation. But when Tom discovers that Anna doesn't actually own the boat and that she may in fact be an imposter, he believes he kno...
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Found: a body
Bookstore clerk Rosalie Cairns was the one who found the body at the edge of the river; why did that make her a suspect?
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We bring you an hour of darkness
Cozy up with this page-turning ski town mystery as a band of determined journalists uncover the truth behind an eco-terrorist plot. “Crisp prose, sharply drawn characters, and keen and often humorous observations of mountain town life make this a compelling read. I LOVED THIS BOOK.” —Gwen Florio...
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Film society
In a small Ontario town, seven women gather to watch movies and share their lives.
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