Literary Mysteries
When his neighbour discovers a dead baby in her rain barrel, Inspector Frank Foote is drawn into an investigation that leads him unwillingly back into his own past. And it looks like the sins of the father will be visited on his children. >>
In 1937, the Clareys are a close and loving family until their lives are transformed the night Edie, their wilful daughter and sister, vanishes, leaving no trace, no clue, as to what happened to her. >>
Staff Sargeant Dan Laurenson is investigating a missing person's case, which turns into something rather different. Could this missing person's case be connected to the several strange attacks? >>
Inspector Aliette Nouvelle's investigation into the murder of a Basel art gallery security guard and an unknown masterpiece leads to an art fraud conspiracy that her colleagues in Switzerland are already looking into. As the bodies pile up on both sides of the French-Swiss border, she throws herself into the case, using work as an excuse to get some distance from her faltering relationship with Commissaire Claude Néon. >>
The Commissaire is convinced that the outlaw Jacques Normand – France’s Public Enemy Number One who escaped prison over ten years ago – is still alive. Commanded to find him, Inspector Aliette Nouvelle suspects there’s more than meets the eye. >>
Forced to attend counselling sessions in the city until the psychologist rules that she's truly over her gun phobia and fit for service, Aliette Nouvelle finds herself in the midst of a puzzling crime spree. >>
Winner of the 1990 Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal, True Copies is an evocative tale of love, loss and deception. A young Québecoise's quest for a missing computer disk leads her through the Silicon Valley and into the streets of Dashiell Hammett's San Francisco. >>
In this fifth installment of the Aliette Nouvelle mysteries, Aliette is now the Inspector of the cozy wine-producing town St-Brin. She quickly becomes embroiled in a politically motivated murder layered in obsessive radicalism and anarchistic machinations that span all of Europe. >>
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