Canadian fiction

  • Subverting Justice A Jack Taggart Mystery

    Creator

    Easton, Don

    Abstract

    The eleventh Jack Taggart Mystery pits Taggart against the ruthless new leader of the Satans Wrath Motorcycle Gang. After the new leader of the Satans Wrath Motorcycle Club ordered the murder and torture of three people — one who was wrongly suspected of being an informant — a bloody message painted on the wall at the murder scene is personally addressed to Jack Taggart. Horrified by the discovery, Taggart’s shock turns to rage when the bikers’ next stop is to his home.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Non spécifié
  • Cullen and Cobb Mysteries 2-Book Bundle Serpents Rising / Dead Air

    Creator

    Poulsen, David A.

    Abstract

    A private investigator and a journalist team up in Calgary to fight for justice. Read the first two books in the exciting western crime series Cullen and Cobb Mysteries. Serpents Rising Private investigator Mike Cobb and journalist Adam Cullen take on twin investigations that take them onto Calgary’s meanest streets on the trail of a runaway and a killer. Dead Air Someone is killing big name right-wing media personalities.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Non spécifié
  • David A. Poulsen's Young Adult Fiction 3-Book Bundle And Then the Sky Exploded / Numbers / Old Man

    Creator

    Poulsen, David A.

    Abstract

    Prolific young adult author David A. Poulsen "handles heavy material with sophistication" (Publishers Weekly). The teens in these three novels confront a teacher who denies the Holocaust, the devastation of atomic bombs, and emotional fallout from the Vietnam War. Includes: And Then the Sky Exploded Ninth-grader Christian Deaver learns his great-grandfather was part of the team that built the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in World War II. During a school trip to Japan, he meets a Hiroshima survivor and tries to make amends. But what can one teenager do?

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Non spécifié
  • Booking In A Crang Mystery

    Creator

    Batten, Jack

    Abstract

    Mystery-solving criminal lawyer Crang returns to investigate the disappearance of two rare books. Fletcher Marshall is a Toronto antiquarian book dealer, internationally respected in the business. One night, someone blows the safe in his office and makes off with the contents, which include an infamous forged first edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese that is in itself a collector’s item. Fletcher, who was still in the process of verifying the book, doesn’t even know whether it was the real thing or a clever forgery (of a forgery).

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Non spécifié
  • B.C. Blues Crime 2-Book Bundle Undertow / Cold Girl

    Creator

    Greenaway, R.M.

    Abstract

    RCMP officer David Leith and his team investigate a series of murders from the snowbound Hazeltons to Lower Mainland B.C. in this atmospheric new crime series. Cold Girl A singer vanishes in the snowbound Hazeltons. Has she been snatched by the so-called Pickup Killer? Investigator David Leith has much to contend with — punishing weather and wily witnesses, plus a young constable who’s more hindrance than help. Suspects multiply, but only at the bitter end does Leith discover who is the coldest girl of all.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Non spécifié
  • Recipe for Hate

    Creator

    Kinsella, Warren

    Abstract

    How a group of Portland, Maine, punks defeated a murderous gang of neo-Nazis. The X Gang is a group of punks led by the scarred, silent, and mostly unreadable Christopher X. His best friend, Kurt Blank, is a hulking and talented punk guitarist living in the closet. Sisters Patti and Betty Upchuck form the core of the feminist Punk Rock Virgins band, and are the closest to X and Kurt. Assorted hangers-on and young upstarts fill out the X Gang’s orbit: the Hot Nasties, the Social Blemishes, and even the legendary Joe Strummer of the Clash.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Non spécifié
  • Purple Palette for Murder A Meg Harris Mystery

    Creator

    Harlick, R.J.

    Abstract

    With her husband under arrest for murder and Meg desperate to prove his innocence, she flies to Yellowknife, where a tangled web of family secrets and greed awaits her. Meg Harris is forced to leave the sanctuary of Three Deer Point and fly to Yellowknife, where her stepdaughter lies near death and her husband is in jail for killing a man. Expecting to find Eric shouting his innocence, she instead finds him cowed and willing to do hard time. But Meg doesn’t believe he’s guilty.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Non spécifié
  • Stonechild and Rouleau Mysteries 4-Book Bundle Shallow End / Tumbled Graves / Butterfly Kills / Cold Mourning

    Creator

    Chapman, Brenda

    Abstract

    When damaged, brilliant detective Kala Stonechild and workaholic staff sergeant Jacques Rouleau get paired up, pieces start falling into place. The series has been called “deeply atmospheric and tightly plotted” and praised for its grit. Now, the first four mysteries are available together in an ebook-exclusive bundle at a special price. Includes: Cold Mourning – Book #1 A week before Christmas, wealthy businessman Tom Underwood disappears into thin air, with more than enough people wanting him dead.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Non spécifié
  • Birder Murder Mysteries 4-Book Bundle A Shimmer of Hummingbirds / A Cast of Falcons / A Pitying of Doves / and 1 more

    Creator

    Burrows, Steve

    Abstract

    This special four-book bundle collects the first three books in the acclaimed, award-winning Birder Murder Mystery series. Includes: A Siege of Bitterns Inspector Domenic Jejeune’s success has made him a poster boy for the U.K. police service. The problem is Jejeune doesn’t really want to be a detective at all; he much prefers watching birds. Recently reassigned to the small Norfolk town of Saltmarsh in the heart of Britain’s premier birding country, Jejeune’s worlds collide when he investigates the grisly murder of a prominent ecological activist.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Non spécifié
  • The Moscow Code A Foreign Affairs Mystery

    Creator

    Wilkshire, Nick

    Abstract

    In Moscow, the truth can be a dangerous commodity. Ottawa bureaucrat–turned-diplomat Charlie Hillier is back. Having barely survived his first posting in Havana, Charlie is eager to put what he learned there to good use. And it isn’t long before he's thrust into a fresh case — a technical writer from Toronto in a Moscow jail on dubious drug charges. Charlie has barely put a dent in the brick wall that is the Russian legal system when the jailed man turns up dead, the official explanation: suicide.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Non spécifié