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When a plant collector is looking for new plant species on the Amazon, she meets an Albertan who is looking for the man who may be responsible for her husband's death.

Joanne's sunny world is shattered when she learns that her daughter has found the corpse of a young woman in the alley near her store, and her son's girlfriend is drowned in a lake in Saskatchewan's Qu'Appelle Valley. Soon she finds herself drawn into a twilight world where money can buy anything and there are always people willing to pay.

When a judge's body is found in Wascana Park, Joanne and friend Hilda Mc Court must determine if the judge had come to regret the harsh sentences she had handed down, or was she getting senile? She had left two wills and the murder might be one of the heirs.

A young woman hands her baby to a perfect stranger - the daughter of Delia Wainberg, a lawyer in the same firm as Joanne Kilbourn's husband - and disappears. One close look at the child suggests a family relationship, and soon the truth about the child Delia gave up for adoption years ago comes out. The boy must be Delia's grandson, but then his mother is found dead, sexually assaulted and murdered. Not only is there a killer on the loose, but the dead woman's partner is demanding custody of the child.

Joanne Kilbourn investigates the murder of a prostitute whose client list included the name of Joanne's new husband, Zach.

Humorous tales of life in the fictional Mennonite colony of Rosenheim during the Great Depression.

One chilly spring morning, Joe Beaudry and his wife Laurie; wake up in circumstances that would challenge a saint. They are on the lam in a stolen motor home on the edge of a Wal-mart parking lot in Regina, Saskatchewan. Joe is trying to raise enough cash to get them both to Fort McMurray where he hopes he can find work. But Laurie somehow thinks their situation is only temporary, and maxes out their last credit card on clothes and hair dye. For Joe, it's the last straw.

A strong-minded city woman, Hana moves to Lone Prairie, Saskatchewan to live on her father's farm and to fulfill the almost impossible conditions of his will. Complications arise when her father's neighbor, Jayce Harlow, accuses the intrusion of her, an unknown, into her father's life, of being too coincidental.