Novels
As the skeletons and bodies mount, this Christmas is not looking to be very jolly for Gerry Coneybear, alone in The Maples with the 23 cats left to her by her aunt along with the charming old house. >>
In Varnum, Ontario, the smell of industry is the smell of money, and a lot of that money's heading south just like Kathy Rausch's idol Bobby Orr. Kathy’s life is going nowhere, but she dreams of her own career on the ice, practicing hockey drills when she isn’t checking out groceries. >>
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. >>
Angèle is a young Métis woman who dreams of becoming an architect. One evening in a Winnipeg art gallery she happens to meet Ueno Takami, an aging Japanese poet. It is a meeting that will change her life. >>
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. >>
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. >>
In the west coast Vancouver Island native village of Kitsum, where everyone knows everyone's business, sixteen-year-old Brenda Joe’s pregnancy is only the first of many secrets and betrayals that threaten to tear her family apart. >>
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