Fiction
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. >>
NEW
This collection of interconnected short stories follows a woman’s journey through grief after her husband is diagnosed with cancer, capturing the complex emotions of love and loss, the challenge of rebuilding after bereavement, and exploring how tragedy affects our very consciousness. >>
Summer tourists and cottagers have flocked to the lakeshore at Cullen Village, including the four Borthwicks siblings, who own--and squabble over--Hazeldean, a heritage cottage. When one of the family members is found dead under suspicious circumstances, the Major Crimes Unit is called. Roxanne Calloway, who has moved to what is normally a quieter life as the head of the local RCMP detachment, finds herself drawn into the investigation. >>
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