Literary Mysteries
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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. >>
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 Last Unsuitable Man is a slow-burn thriller filled with twists that no one--least of all the victim--could see coming. >>
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When insurance fraud investigator Richard Suttle goes to track down a friend’s missing son in Mexico City, he stumbles into a deadly conspiracy involving a powerful televangelist who is running a child sex trafficking ring. >>
The Rudleys are looking forward to autumn at the Pleasant Inn, their bucolic Ontario cottage-country hotel, expecting only a little Halloween high jinks to punctuate the mellow ambiance. Alas, the hapless proprietors hope in vain, and it is more than the pumpkins in the patch that suffer violence. >>
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