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Flying a red kite
Canadian author Hugh Hood’s first collection of short stories.
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Without blood
When two men are killed under similar circumstances two days apart, Montreal police detective Victor Lessard is given an opportunity to prove that his recently kicked drinking habit and tumultuous private life haven’t permanently derailed his career.
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Lump
In a single day, Cat finds out that she is pregnant, that a lump in her breast is the worst thing it could be, and that her husband has done something unforgivably creepy. The culture of striving has caught up to her family — and Cat doesn’t handle it the way a middle-class mom is supposed to.
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The devil to pay
When a man disappears, the police conclude he is simply fleeing an unhappy home and a mountain of debt. Then a body is discovered. Inspector Green’s daughter, a rookie patrol officer, fears that her actions precipitated the murder and starts to dig for answers. Her search leads her straight into ...
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Business
Paul Wint quits his dead-end gig composing greeting cards and falls in with Hornsmith, an ailing con on his last score. Soon Paul’s world is about angry acrobats, shady narcs, greedy surgeons, killer gangsters, and punk singers at the end of their tether.
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Two white queens and the one-eyed jack
A boy falls from a tree and his best friend feels responsible. Loss and guilt bind them as they grow to adulthood. When the two boys meet albino twins Clara and Blanca, their destinies intertwine.
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And the walls came down
A troubled Delia Ellis returns to her old neighbourhood, Don Mount Court, to retrieve a beloved childhood diary. While the entries uncover significant revelations around her mother’s past, it is Delia’s return home that leads to a true understanding of the circumstances that forged her identity.
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The liquor vicar
Reduced to DJ-ing rural weddings, Tony Vicar feels the bite of failure. When Tony gives aid to the sole survivor of a car accident, his actions become big news. But what he calls luck is seen as something more magical by everyone else.
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Remember tokyo
Following a harrowing experience in Russia, Charlie Hillier is back, with a new posting to Tokyo. His first consular case involves a banker who awakens from a coma with amnesia after a car accident. But all may not be as it seems as Charlie’s inquiries land him in trouble once again.
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Why the rock falls
When an oil baron and his son go missing in the foothills of Alberta, ex-cop Lacey McCrae joins the search-and-rescue operation, sending her on a risky chase across dangerous terrain in pursuit of a killer.
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Egg island
From backseats, truck beds, motels, diners, and hostels, through strange small towns, forests, farms, and outer space, the journey to the elusive subarctic locale of Egg Island is more than just a test of survival; it’s an expedition for truth, connection, and hope for a new future for teenage ru...
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Starr sign
These days former contract killer Candace Starr is only responsible for her bar tab. Until her half-sister shows up desperate to find their mother, Angela, who went missing while visiting her family of Detroit mobsters, and suddenly Candace is embroiled in her deadliest assignment ever.
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Exceptional circumstances
When Luc Cadotte, diplomat and spy, returns home from Latin America during the FLQ Crisis, he becomes entangled in political machinations and a story of espionage, betrayal, and love gone wrong. Facing an unprecedented wave of domestic terrorism, Cadotte must weigh his ethics against public safet...
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Home of the floating lily
Home of the Floating Lily is a collection of eight short stories that provide a glimpse into the lives of Bangladeshi immigrants, mostly women, in Scarborough and the ways in which they deal with migration, displacement, and the longing for home as they move between countries, cities, and relatio...
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Autonomy
After being detained at the border of the New Canadian Protectorate, university counsellor Slaton meets an AI, Julian, who works interviewing detainees at the Canadian/American border. As a plague ravages the planet, they encounter a strange bubble of super-rich elite, whose ploy for immortality ...
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The day she died
For Eve Gold, almost dying isn’t the real shock — it’s what comes after. Brain damage leaves her tortured by repressed memories of a childhood where her innocence was stolen one lie — and one suspicious death — at a time. In order to survive, she must unearth old secrets.
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Blood count
In Blood Count, a man who has lost his lover to AIDS enlists Crang to help him find the man who infected him.
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Night call
In a very different 1933, self-styled detective Elias Roche and his robot partner, Allen, immerse themselves in the criminal underworld to find the killer and hopefully prevent war on New York’s streets when a murder occurs that not only threatens both the police and the mafia but appears connect...
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On the head of a pin
The history of the rebellion, the Patriot Hunter invasions, Pirate Bill Johnston, and Upper Canada politics are ingeniously woven into this tale of serial murder.
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Patchwork society
In this sweeping family saga and sequel to Johnston’s bestselling Matrons and Madams, nurse Clara Durling works to bring humanity to those living at the margins of society.
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A strange kind of comfort
Acts of deception and betrayal and a simmering feud between two farm families change the course of two women’s lives. Told in the alternating voices of Caroline Webb and Sarah Bilyk over the span of sixty years, the women reunite after a forty year estrangement to find what they’ve both been seek...
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None so deadly
The brutal killing of a police investigator obsessed with Faith Unruh’s murder has put the ex-cop–private eye and former crime writing journalist back on the killer’s trail — and directly in the line of fire.
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Undertow
RCMP detective Leith fears he’s made a mistake bringing his family to North Vancouver. His first Serious Crimes Unit case has rocked his senses: who would brutally murder a mother, father, and baby? Detective Dion, also regretting the move, has returned to the city where he no longer fits in — bu...
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Saltwater cowboys
Based on a true story about the uprooting of Newfoundlanders by the mining collapse of the 1980s, and their eventual move to newly booming Alberta. There they find that life is not easy but family is still paramount.
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In over her head
Hannah Smart is terrified of the ocean, but when the TV network wants her to participate in the same shipwreck treasure-hunting reality show as the boy she’s crazy about — and the girl he may have once kissed — how can she say no?
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Saving crazy
Robin and her activist sidekick Zo-Zo have a crush on the same boy. But when he chooses Robin, Zo-Zo is angry and cuts off their friendship. Robin’s nature-loving grandmother decides to help out by taking them on a high-seas adventure to save whales. Soon, Robin has to choose between her love for...
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The strange gift of gwendolyn golden
Gwendolyn Golden has a bad temper and hates to read. She's a pretty normal teenager until … one morning she wakes up on the ceiling. Along with her many average teenage qualities, Gwendolyn Golden can also fly. What’s happening to her?
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On remembrance day
Most Canadian families have lost loved ones in war, and Canada has developed unique ways of demonstrating respect and honouring its war dead and veterans. This engaging and easy to read reference book provides information and photos highlighting the history, customs, and traditions of Canada's Re...
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The truth about brave
Whether saving animals from a factory farm or dealing with her sister's eating disorder, Robin struggles to choose whether taking action would be heroic – or going too far. Worried she's a wuss compared to her friend Zo-Zo, Robin takes the risk of following her own path, and finds her inner truth...
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Blackwells and the briny deep
After seeing a phantom ship, the Blackwell kids run aground on a mysterious island with warring mermaids, zombie pirates, and a strange dolphin-boy named Finn.
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Darkling green
Just when things seem to have calmed down at Eldritch Manor, spring comes with new complications. The King of the Fairies arrives with his entourage, and mistakes in Mab’s knitting cause ruptures in time that make a supernatural portal open in the backyard pool. And on top of all that, Willa unco...
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Mac on the road to marseille
Mac returns to Paris for another adventure with her taxi-driving friends, this time getting mixed up in a crazy cabbie road race to Marseille with her new driving partner, Blag Lebouef, and the mystery of some missing national art treasures.
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47 sorrows
It's 1847, "Black '47," and 100,000 Irish emigrants are fleeing to North America to escape starvation. When a bloated body washes up on Lake Ontario shore near his home, Thaddeus Lewis is sent on a journey that takes him into the heart of disaster.
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Bone deep
A two-hundred-year-old sunken ship is discovered off the northern tip of Vancouver Island and budding archaeologist Peggy Henderson manages to secure a place on this archaeological expedition. The trip teachers her not only about history but about her own relationships.
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Thin ice
Major Crimes Unit investigator Jack Smith is assigned to the murder of a young number one draft pick who was set to play for Ottawa in the upcoming pro hockey seaon. But he's surprised by how much the kid's life differs from his clean-cut media image. A long list of suspects soon emerges, any on...
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Old bones
Young dinosaur hunter Casey hears about an attempted robbery of artifacts from the Royal Tyrrell Museum and has to use his ingenuity to foil the burglars.
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Last of the independents
A crooked detective is playing the justice system to protect a kidnapper, and the only viable lead takes private investigator Michael Drayton to a car-thieving junkie.
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Prospect avenue
For bootleggers like Jack McCloskey, Prospect Avenue is just another dead end, and not even one of the better ones, but at least it’s away from prying eyes. But Jack is about to learn that what goes on in the shadows isn’t at all as “nice” as what he does, as the trade in opium — and people — pic...
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The gargoyle at the gates
Christopher is astonished to discover that gargoyles Ambergine and Gargoth are living in the park next door and that Katherine, a girl from his class, knows the gargoyles, as well. When the Collector steals Ambergine, it's up to Christopher and Katherine to get her back, as long as something else...
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Cherry blossom winter
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, 10-year-old Michiko's family’s possessions are confiscated and they are sent to a small community. After a former Asahi baseball star becomes her new teacher, life gets better. Baseball fever hits town, and when Michiko challenges the adults to a game with her c...
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Shadow wrack
After the events of Eldritch Manor, Willa just wants peace and quiet, but the burned-down old house is only creating more problems. The old folks are restless, the magical groups are fighting with each other, and Willa’s attempts to “fix” her family aren’t going well at all. The forces of darknes...
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A hole in my heart
When 12-year-old Nora learns that her favourite cousin, Lizzie, is about to have risky open-heart surgery, she wonders if her family will ever feel whole again, and if she can find the courage to mend her own broken heart.
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No place for wolverines
When Jenny Willson initiates a covert inquiry into a proposed ski hill in Yoho National Park, she must decide if she’s willing to risk her career — and perhaps her life and the lives of those close to her — to reveal what lurks in the darkness.
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A good man
A superb story of loss and regret, A Good Man explores history distorted through the shaded lens of time.
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The regiment
The Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment (the Hasty Ps) was Canada’s most decorated regiment in the Second World War. In The Regiment, Farley Mowat, famed novelist and member of the regiment, movingly recounts the story of the Hasty Ps, telling the story of his fellow soldiers and their vital role...
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Carter and the curious maze
Carter spends a strange afternoon trapped in a never-ending maze at a fair. He escapes only to find himself living in the past! Carter follows the clues to find his way home, but will the maze let him go?
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Cold girl
A singer vanishes in the snowbound Hazeltons. Has she been snatched by the so-called Pickup Killer? Investigator David Leith has much to contend with — punishing weather and wily witnesses, plus a young constable who’s more hindrance than help. Suspects multiply, but only at the bitter end does L...
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Last song sung
Cullen and Cobb are back to investigate the 1965 disappearance of a folk singer. Kidnapped from the alley behind a folk club, her bandmates shot and killed, Ellie Foster’s whereabouts have remained a mystery for fifty years. Hired by Ellie’s granddaughter, Cullen and Cobb travel into the past to ...
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The kashmir trap
Professional con man Max O’Brien is on the run from police when he learns that his diplomat nephew has been assassinated in New Delhi. Eleven years earlier, Max’s brother mysteriously disappeared while serving as an ambassador. Determined to find answers this time, Max goes to India, on the verge...
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When the flood falls
A jaded ex-cop struggles to protect her oldest friend from an unknown danger while looking into the mysterious disappearance at a local charity event of an up-and-coming pro hockey player.
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The redemption of oscar wolf
A saga of mid-20th-century Native life in Canada and abroad, The Redemption of Oscar Wolf is a novel of resonating ideas and unforgettable characters with a fascinating anti-hero protagonist who sets out on a quest for redemption after a terrible fire in his hometown kills his grandfather and a y...
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Fire on the runway
In the mid-1920s, Torontonians move to the beat of the Jazz Age and war is the furthest thing from their minds. Then a fatal grenade explosion breaks the rhythm. Police detective Paul Shenstone believes it was an attempted assassination and uncovers dangerous secrets about an illicit rearmament s...
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Surface rights
Verna Macoun Woodcock discovers that a mysterious and menacing stranger has claim-staked a portion of her family's property and the intrusion forces her to confront her troubled past.
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Keeper of the flame
A hip-hop star hires criminal lawyer Crang to save him from a messy blackmail. In the course of performing the rescue, Crang gets embroiled with a gang running a porn operation. These guys play rough, and after someone dies a violent death, Crang has a murder to solve before he can tidy up his hi...
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Tears in the grass
A fresh and poignant story of three generations of Cree women — Elinor, Louise, and Alice — setting out to uncover a long-buried secret that will change all of their lives. Set in the Qu'Appelle Valley and prairies in the late 1960s, the novel confronts the trauma of residential schools, and the ...
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Barrett fuller's secret
Barrett Fuller is a famous children's author who writes under a pseudonym because he's a womanizing, drug-using, self-absorbed man. His life changes when he receives an extortion letter, challenging him to live up to the morals he espouses in his books. He is presented with tasks to complete or f...
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Honour among men
While investigating why an unidentified woman drowned in the Ottawa River, Inspector Green uncovers dark secrets linked to a peacekeeping mission in Yugoslavia more than a decade ago. Is someone still killing to prevent that secret from coming to light?
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Strange things done
As winter closes in and the roads snow over in Dawson City, journalist Jo Silver investigates the dubious suicide of a local politician — and quickly discovers that nothing in the sleepy mining town is what it seems.
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Fifth son
When a homeless man falls to his death from an abandoned church tower, Inspector Green uncovers a family full of fundamentalist religious views, teenage rebellion, and a secret so terrible someone is trying to keep it hidden twenty years on.
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Riviera blues
Criminal lawyer Crang agrees to do a favour for a family member while vacationing in the French Riviera, but his attempts find him stuck in a series of tight spots. Lurking in the background is a fraud set-up tangled up in a murder, forcing Crang to solve the riddles if he wants to unravel the case.
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In the city of pigs
Alexander Otkazov is a failed pianist trying to start a new life in journalism. But when he starts reporting on a mysterious group of avant-garde musicians, the story takes him into a shadowy world of obscure composers, megalomaniac artists, and real estate barons, where the lines between art, fi...
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A dark and promised land
When Orkneywoman Rose is shipwrecked on the shores of Rupert's Land, she falls in love with a half-caste man, Alexander. When she shuns him after the death of her father, he leaves. Unable to bear their separation, and with the young country on the brink of war, Alexander returns to reclaim her l...
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Art and murder
Undercover operative Jack Taggart of the RCMP is on a mission to find the murderer of a fellow officer. Posing as a pimp, he infiltrates an international crime syndicate led by a mysterious figure known only as the Ringmaster. His plan to find the killer is going well … until the killer IDs him f...
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Roses for a diva
Opera singer Marta Hendricks discovers she has an mysterious admirer who leaves her roses. But it turns out this fan is a actually a stalker with deadly intentions.
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One night in mississippi
After fifty years of guilt over his brother’s brutal murder in Civil Rights–era Mississippi, Warren Williams decides to renew his fight to bring the men responsible to justice. His efforts put him face-to-face with one of the murderers, Earl Olsen, in a remote Ontario town where a contest of wits...
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Children of the tide
In Victorian London, a new kind of criminal is terrorizing the city's most vulnerable denizens. With the London Detective Police still in its infancy, Inspector Owen Endersby pursues a killer so depraved that the inspector must turn away from his own moral compass, risking his career and more to ...
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Let's tell this story properly
Provocative, moving, and rich in craft, the stories gathered here represent some of the most original emerging writers in the world. The selected, groundbreaking stories carry on the almost thirty-year tradition of the Commonwealth Writers' Prizes, past winners of which include Jhumpa Lahiri. Zad...
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Shroud of roses
The Class of 2000 left behind a skeleton in its closet, and fifteen years later someone is coming for the rest of the graduates, including none other than Bliss Moonbeam Cornwall. Against their better judgment, Cornwall and Redfern team up to expose the killer before time — or Cornwall’s talent f...
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Really dead
Ria Butler is a travel writer working on a reality TV show in the Caribbean, where things quickly get scary. A severed foot in a tidal pool, an exploding dinghy, a missing production assistant, a government spy — Ria has to separate fact from fiction. No matter how you look at it, someone's Reall...
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Sad peninsula
The lives of Eun-Young, a former Korean "comfort woman," and Michael, a troubled young Canadian ESL teacher, become intertwined through love, conflict, and history. Their stories collide when Michael falls in love with a woman named Jin, who challenges stereotypes of race and gender and bridges t...
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Riverside drive
Jack McCloskey returned to Windsor, Ontario, from the Great War lost in a battle with his inner demons. When he channels his energy into amateur fights, he's noticed by a gangster moonlighting as a boxing promoter. After a brief professional stint, Jack is invited to join the crew in the early da...
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Brilliance is the clothing i wear
In this diverse anthology of poetry, fiction, and memoir, twenty-five writers with lived experience of mental health and addictions issues speak up.
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Pizza 911
Mister Jinnah returns — just in time to skip town, forever! Pizza 911 puts the offbeat, chain-smoking Jinnah on the hunt for a vicious killer, and for one last big scoop before he gets out of the reporting game. From Vancouver to Tanzania, the neurotic newsman weaves between drug lords and assass...
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Cut to the chase
Danson Lafleur's been on a crusade to investigate deported criminals who return undetected to Canada, and now he's missing. Can he be the unidentified man in the morgue? Danson's desperate sister pleads with artist and amateur sleuth Hollis Grant to search for her brother, since the police don't ...
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Cut to the quick
Hollis Grant is in Toronto, hoping for a quiet summer of study. But the murder of her friends secretive stepson puts paid to those plans as the friend teeters on the edge of hysteria. Arson, a bomb, a sabotaged sailboatthe killer is closing in again. Who will be the next victim? Hollis races to s...
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Local customs
In June 1838 , Letitia Landon and George Maclean marry and sail off to remote West Africa, arriving just after Letitia's thirty-sixth birthday. Eight weeks later, Letitia is dead from what appears to be an accidental overdose of prussic acid. But what really happened to Letitia in this exotic pla...
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Jacintha
When Jacintha Peters enrols in Richard Wilson’s seminar on The Tempest, he gradually falls under her spell — until he receives information that shatters his belief in himself as a moral man.
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Second summer of war
Harrowing, humorous, and heart-warming, Second Summer of War is a tale of life on the sea in the summer of 1813, through England's stodgy salons and horrific prison hulks, and into the bloody battles between the British and the Americans on the storm-tossed Atlantic.
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Sowing poison
Nathan Elliott returns home to be with his dying father but within days he has disappeared. Methodist circuit rider Thaddeus Lewis joins the hunt but is disturbed by the arrival of Nathan's wife, who is a psychic. This historical mystery includes a strange wild boy, murder, and ultimately, the tr...
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Hooks
Hooks grapples with discrepancies between a Western and an Eastern take on prostitution in a country where tradition and necessity cast disturbing slants on the truth.
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Dead air
Someone is killing big name right-wing media personalities. When ex-cop Mike Cobb is hired as a bodyguard for a conservative radio superstar, he and his partner, crime journalist Adam Cullen, are thrust into the line of fire.
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Cemetery of the nameless
Violin virtuoso Victoria Morgan and her devoted piano accompanist are on yet another European tour. While playing to a full house in Vienna, Tory leaves the stage and disappears in the middle of this important concert, leaving behind a puzzled audience. Why would a seasoned professional do someth...
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After the bloom
Rita Takemitsu is a newly single mother raising her daughter in 1980s Toronto. When her mother, Lily, goes missing, Rita sets out to find her. In the course of her quest, Rita uncovers a host of secrets surrounding her mother’s internment at a camp in the California desert during the Second World...
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On the rim
How do you cope when your husband of more than 30 years announces he's leaving and you didn’t see it coming? Ellen thought these would be her marriage's golden years, but instead she learns that everything she thought they held jointly are in his name. She plummets into depression, but a spur-of-...
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The slip
Professor Philip Sharpe is having a bad day when he appears on a live televised debate. But things will only get worse when, flustered on air, he makes some wildly inappropriate remarks. The “slip” goes viral and Philip’s life and marriage go into a tailspin. His life unravelling, Philip hatches ...
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Festival man
In this satirical send-up of the Canadian music scene, maverick band manager Campbell Ouiniette makes a final, flailing, and destructive bid for glory as he attempts to pull the ultimate scam on the Calgary Folk Festival.
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Five roses
Five Roses is a novel about overcoming the emotional fallout of a shattering loss. Fara, Maddy, and Rose’s lives intersect in Pointe St-Charles, Montreal, where a backdrop of gentrification mirrors the traumas that haunt these women, as well as their search for new bonds in place of their familie...
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The instructor
When nineteen-year-old Simone Paris followed her art instructor/ lover Otto Guest to Mexico, she had no idea of the impact the decision will have on the formation of her personal identity. When Otto reappears, six years later, Simone is confronted with forgotten relics from her past and feelings ...
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Endgame
Harvey Keill, ex-manager of the Ladykillers, arranges a reunion for his notorious punk band on a remote island off the coast of Seattle. But once the band and their eclectic entourage arrive, a dark secret emerges from their past to haunt them as, one by one, the guests begin to fall prey to a my...
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The burying ground
Thaddeus reunites with an old friend in less-than-cheerful circumstances to catch a grave robber who is preying on a vagrants' cemetery and stealing more than bodies. The two soon find themselves entangled in a mystery that stretches back to the typhus epidemic of 1847, and the legacy of a scanda...
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The town below
A bestseller in Quebec when it originally appeared, The Town Below has been called the "pioneer novel of working-class Quebec" and exploded, with great controversy, the smothering social and religious strictures prevalent among postwar Québécois.
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The scarlet macaw
Entwined mysteries unfold in two time periods in Singapore as artist Maris Cousins, devastated by the sudden death of her mentor, gallery owner Peter Stone, becomes immersed in fictional stories of love and betrayal from the city's past, mysteriously left to her by Stone. Soon she is caught up in...
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Twilight is not good for maidens
Holly Martin’s RCMP detachment on Vancouver Island is rocked by an attack on a woman camping alone. At another beach a girl is garrotted. The case breaks open when a third woman is raped and gives a description of the assailant.
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Aquariums
An intimate and wide-sweeping climate fiction story that examines the staying power of the human race through the life of a young marine biologist who works to save ocean ecosystems, woven together with the stories of her ancestors.
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Sir john a.'s crusade and seward's magnificent folly
Secret deals, romance, and international intrigue all figure in this rousing tale of historical speculation focused on Sir John A. Macdonald and set on the eve of Canada's birth in both London, England, and Highclere Castle, now widely known as the real-life location for the popular television se...
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All else is folly
All Else Is Folly is a living memory of the Canadian experience in the First World War. Praised by Sir Robert Borden, this novel both commemorates and mourns the Canadian soldiers who fought for peace in a landscape of treachery.
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Cover before striking
The characters in Cover Before Striking — ranging from pyromaniacs to Olympic athletes to Catholic priests—are all pushing their lives to new levels of intensity, danger, or passion as they test their limits and those of the world. A new short story collection from award-winning author Priscila U...
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Almost criminal
Almost Criminal is a tightly wound tale of steadily building suspense. It's the time of the New Prohibition, and it's a story of a young man's eagerness to impress his mentor and earn the trust of his family, and his desperate attempt to escape before violence sweeps him, and everyone he loves, a...
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Circle of stones
Nik's world shatters the day his girlfriend, Jennifer, disappears. Determined to find her, he embarks on a cross-country journey revealed through chance encounters with a series of connected strangers. As the story circles back to where it began, questions grow ever more urgent — like who is sear...
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Bury your horses
A disgraced pro hockey goon crashes his motorcycle in the Chihuahuan Desert and finds his life entangled with the inhabitants of a local ranch.
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