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Detective Lane returns for a fourth time in Smoked, Garry Ryan's darkest mystery to date. When Jennifer Towers is found dead in a graffiti-tagged dumpster, Detectives Lane and Harper must decipher the art to find its artist - and possibly the victim's killer. What begins as an unconventional murder investigation leads to the disturbing discovery of two abused children, whose father becomes a prime suspect in the case. In true Detective Lane form, Lane must protect the damaged youths while keeping his own family in tact.

It’s Christmas time but many of Gerry Coneybear's friends are away for the holidays and she has no family to celebrate with at the Maples, the old house bequeathed to her by her aunt. Just the 23 cats her aunt left her with. When Gerry first finds a bone in her bedroom, naturally she assumes it’s a chicken bone one of the cats has dragged in from the garbage. But it turns out to be from a skeleton buried under the floorboards in the woodshed. On the up side, the skeleton is over 100 years old.

When Gerry Coneybear, a cheerful young artist, comes to her Aunt Maggie's funeral, she is shocked to learn that she has inherited her aunt's rambling 200-year-old waterfront home. Unfortunately, the house comes with a multitude of her aunt's cats as part of the bequest. As Gerry fends off the greedy, jealous relatives and the mysterious part-time housekeeper, she gradually comes to realize that her aunt may have been murdered. Cats, teacups, horticulture and art come together to help Gerry solve the mystery.

HQ has ruled that Chief Inspector Aliette Nouvelle's failure to carry her gun directly contributed to the messy conclusion of a major murder case she'd led the previous summer. Her career now depends on a drastic about-face. Aliette has been ordered to come into the city to practice at the Beziers police shooting range and attend counselling sessions two nights a week with psychologist Gabrielle Gravel. For Aliette, this is not only humiliating, it's inconvenient. Beziers is a 40-kilometre drive from her home base in Saint-Brin, a sleepy wine town in the south of France.

Gerry Coneybear thinks she has her busy life (and her many cats) under control. That is, until a dead body unexpectedly pops up. Gerry really doesn't want to get involved. But when she discovers a mysterious package tucked up in a tree in her yard, she realizes that's not going to be possible.

When Stella Magnusson, beautiful, talented but devious, turns up dead at the Cullen Village dump in Manitoba's Interlake, Margo Wishart and her Book Club take notice. So does Corporal Roxanne Calloway of the RCMP. Soon they are in a race to discover the killer as the temperature dips to minus forty and it looks like someone else is going to freeze to death.

It's April 1st, and Gerry Coneybear, who inherited her Aunt Maggie's big old house (and her aunt's twenty cats), is wishing her mountain of bills was a joke. She's just self-published her children's book, and that cost money. Plus the valuable painting she was hoping to sell has gone missing. Gerry has had the distinct feeling she's being stalked lately, and her kitten Jay has begun acting almost as if it's possessed. And then there's that suspicious death.

The gruesome saga of the Black Donnellys has been heavily mythologized. A thick layer of rumour, legend, and hearsay has built up around the facts of the case. But one thing is clear: no one who reads this book will ever forget the murderous events that occurred near the town of Lucan, Ontario in the 1870s. 2004.

Undercover as a homeless man, Leo Desroches, a half-Cree, half-French-Canadian reporter in Edmonton, has his hands full both on the job and in his personal life. As he tries to reconnect with his estranged son and fight his urge to gamble, he is consumed by a story that turns into a personal crusade: a search for a missing Native street kid hes befriended. When the boy is found brutally murdered, Leo explores the depths of Native street culture in a local gang, but secrets soon emerge that threaten not only the gang members, but Leos life - and his sanity.

No one dreams of a killer Christmas... It's Christmastime in Charm, North Carolina, and while Everly Swan would prefer to focus on decorating her iced tea shop for its first holiday season, Great-Aunt Fran has decided to run for mayor against her long-time nemesis. But when the other candidate turns up dead just before the first scheduled debate, all eyes turn to Fran as the suspect with the most obvious motive.