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When the folk rock group Hearts of Flame broke up Ruby and the other members gravitate from Alberta to Toronto. The booming city at the end of the eighties offers all these outsiders a way to thrive. Then Ruby disappears. The police fail to turn up any leads. From the glass towers of Toronto's business elite to the shattered dreams of the city's street people, Blair searches for her friend. She finds only questions. Portrait of a city and a generation, HEARTS OF FLAME is a novel about friendship and loss.

For Mark Whelan, Private Investigator, it all begins in a sombre but entirely unremarkable way: a visit to the morgue to provide moral support to a client as he formally identifies his brother. But Whelan’s interest is piqued by a link between the victim’s death and Whelan’s own youth and by signs that the death is the result of something darker than the “accident” being suggested by the police.

Tracking down missing persons is nothing new to Walter Osborne, but his latest case is different. The person he has been hired to find is leading a double life, with few clues to his real identity. Joined by Aurora Weeks, a well-known freelance journalist, Osborne follows a trail littered with deadly consequences. As the pair gets closer to solving the case, they find themselves targets and must quickly decide who is friend and who is, ultimately, foe.

Audrey Rose Wadsworth often slips away to her uncle's laboratory to study the gruesome practice of forensic medicine. When her work on a string of corpses drags Audrey into the investigation of a serial murderer, her search for answers brings her close to her own sheltered world.

In the summer of 1986, two tragedies rocked Oklahoma City when six movie-theater employees were killed in an armed robbery and a teenage girl vanished from the state fair. Twenty-five years later, the reverberations of those unsolved cases quietly echo through the survivors' lives.

When a body is discovered near a quiet Tokyo neighborhood, Lieutenant Reiko Himekawa and her squad take the case. Reiko makes a discovery that leads the police to uncover eleven other bodies. But while Reiko is hunting the killer, the killer is hunting her.

Bob Reynolds doesn't recognize the body in the creek, but he does recognize the danger of it. He's a newcomer to town but not entirely welcome. He would rather pretend he never saw the body, but when it disappears he begins to doubt what little he knew about this secretive town.

Vincent Moretti is one of the NYPD's top homicide detectives who has spent years working alongside his longtime partner, Jill--who drives him crazy with desire. When Vin sees Jill with someone else he feels jealous and desperate to find a way to convince her to be his partner for life.

When feline PI Joe Grey and his companion Dulcie have kittens, a little calico is born with ancient markings. But the celebrations will have to wait. A murderer is on the loose in Molena Point--and neither young nor old is safe until the culprit is found.

On a night flight to Boston, Ted Severson meets the stunning and mysterious Lily Kintner. After one too many martinis, Ted begins to talk about his wife, Miranda, who he's sure is cheating on him. Things turn darker when Ted jokes that he could kill Miranda--and Lily says she'll help.