Fiction
NYPD Detective Nicola Cortese, veteran of three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, is demoted and transferred to a desk job in Operations after his PTSD spirals out of control following a drug bust gone bad. When he returns to active duty, his first case, a B&E homicide, leads him to uncover an international conspiracy that is using a genetically engineered seed to take control of the world’s wheat. >>
For forty years, Lydia Eadon and Dorian Grant believe that the terrible secret from their last summer at the Eadons’ isolated lakeside cottage is safe. But when Lydia’s mother dies and the cottage falls to her, the two are plunged into a grim reckoning with their past. >>
Margaret Rudley has finally persuaded her husband Trevor to take a vacation, a week-long canoeing expedition in Northern Ontario. But a serial murderer is on the lam in cottage country, and chaos reigns at The Pleasant in their absence. >>
With compelling exuberance, Margaret Macpherson entices her readers to leave behind their familiar comforts and join her on a unpredictable journey of hazardous navigations – where the risks are many, the rewards transformative. >>
The stories in Permanent Tourists feature displaced characters loosely connected through a support group, all of them dealing with loss precipitated by an elusive father, husband or lover, by a wife’s death, a lost child, sibling rivalries. >>
Owners of The Pleasant Inn, Trevor and Margaret Rudley, have had their share of misfortunes. Now there’s a dead body making a nuisance of itself in the wine cellar, and it’s nobody the Rudleys know. >>
The thirteen stories in Prerequisites for Sleep describe the bartering between individuals and their consciences at the end of the day, the deals and concessions one makes to live with oneself and to, hopefully, get a good night’s sleep. >>
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