Literary Mysteries
It's late spring and young artist Gerry Coneybear and her twenty cats are thrilled to finally be able to get outside. Her neighbours' marriage isn't quite what it should be, and as events unfold next door, Gerry watches from her garden. When the philandering husband is murdered, the wife is the obvious suspect. Or ought to be. >>
Professional art authenticator Leonard Anderson covets his patron Luella Parson's Cartwright drawings so much that he decides to substitute his own clever forgeries for the originals and set fire to her mansion to hide evidence of fraud. Unfortunately, dear old Luella perishes in the fire too. But that's only the beginning of Leonard's problems. >>
A Most Unpleasant Wedding is Judith Alguire's most recent Rudley Mystery, named for the cantankerous proprietor of The Pleasant Inn. A wedding held at the Pleasant turns from hopeful to horror when a body of a neighbour is discovered behind the inn. >>
Inspector Aliette Nouvelle returns to solve the case of the murder of a Marilyn Monroe look-alike in a French brothel. >>
Roxanne is investigating the murder of Prairie Theatre Centre's well-loved Artistic Director but the theatre is a different world with its own jargon, where fact and fiction merge, lies are delivered as truth, and where people with active imaginations conjure up convincing stories. Who is Roxanne supposed to believe? >>
When local music star Stella Magnusson is found dead at the local dump, residents of the normally tranquil Cullen Village are shocked. Corporal Roxanne Calloway from the Major Crime Unit has barely begun her investigation when another victim is found murdered, and it's clear there's a serial killer on the loose.
>>While doing research on the German invasion of France, a Canadian professor stumbles upon evidence that someone in France’s counter-intelligence agency was attempting to get a warning to the incoming Prime Minister about an active spy in the French war ministry and a Nazi sympathizer among his advisors. >>
In the spring of 1964, troubled teenager Cookie Blue is found dead in the Red River.Blue Vengeance follows her younger brother Danny and Cookie's friend Janine through a lazy Winnipeg summer, as they plot to kill the despised teacher they blame for Cookie's death. >>