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Inheriting the Skipper’s House from her late aunt, a famed Scottish writer, looks like the solution to all Elspeth Laird’s financial problems—but practical jokes turn into sinister threats, and a murder reveals a killer among the Isle of Sulla locals. With tensions high and trust scarce, she must unravel dark secrets before becoming the next victim of the house’s deadly curse. >>
Retired Detective Kevin Beldon has left Ottawa and gone into retreat at a Buddhist monastery in California following his successful treatment for lung cancer. He’s trying to make sense of his life, but death is very much on his mind. >>
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The Emptiest Quarter: Novellas
The characters who populate The Emptiest Quarter live at both the centre and the fringes of the conflict between preservation and progress, including sheikhs, western oil-and-gas men, burned-out journalists, pearl divers, and Filipina caregivers, all striving to find themselves, to find love, to find balance in ever-shifting sands.
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A spring Sunday hike leads to literally tripping over the body of a dead woman for letter carrier Beryl Kyte, and things just keep getting stranger around her home in Norwood Flats. Inspector Frank Foote might just believe her, though. >>
A grisly discovery behind the wall of an old house in Winnipeg leads former Inspector Frank Foote into the past and down the trail of the unusual Mrs. Mortimer, who’d had a short-lived business in the 1960s taking photos of the recently deceased for their families. >>
When an art history student begins uncovering the origins of the earliest known Tarot deck, he finds himself on a terrifying journey, which takes him from the safety of the museums and libraries of pre-9/11 New York to the most hidden reaches of West Africa, where a mystery as dark and ancient as the cards themselves awaits his discovery. >>
The Haweaters brings to life the violent, real-life double murder of impoverished farmers Charles and William Bryan by two members of the wealthy Amer family on Manitoulin Island in 1877. It's a tale of treachery, gossip, drunkenness, arson and the merciless deaths of two not-so-innocent victims.
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The Last Chance Ladies’ Book Club
What do we do when "the monster in our midst" moves next door? It’s a question the members of the Last Chance Ladies' Book Club must ask themselves after a man with an abusive past moves into their seniors’ complex. >>
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