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Lucky Smith and Chief Constable Paul Keller are having a weekend getaway when trouble arises—trouble involving Paul’s estranged son, Matt, and a dead body. Lucky’s daughter, Constable Molly Smith, soon finds herself in the middle of the investigation.

Photographer Rudolph Steiner goes to Trafalgar to reconnect with the woman who left him but ends up dead. Suspicion falls on his former love—now the wife of Trafalgar’s police sergeant. The sergeant must decide where his loyalties lie: with his job or his wife.

On a dank and foggy November evening in 1796 a Royal Mail Coach on its way from Hull to York is stopped by two highwaymen. One of the passengers is abducted. Two weeks later the headless body of a man is discovered beneath a hedge in the same locality. In the following weeks more headless bodies are discovered. A constable from the town of Hull and his bookseller friend Nicholas Twygge are asked by the Sheriff and Aldermen to investigate the deaths.

When a well respected truck driver, the owner of a family trucking business, is found dead in his truck down a steep embankment along the Coquihalla highway that winds through the mountains in British Columbia, his distraught daughter wants to know how and why his truck left the highway on an easy uphill curve. This compels Hunter Rayne, a fellow trucker and retired RCMP detective with daughters of his own, to help her find answers.

On a warm July morning in L.A. County, a frozen corpse turns up at a highway brake check just south of the Grapevine Pass. Ex-homicide detective Hunter Rayne, who now drives an eighteen wheeler, is persuaded by his irascible dispatcher, Elspeth Watson, to help clear two fellow truck drivers who are arrested for the murder. His job is made more difficult by the fact that the suspects, a newlywed couple, won't speak up in their own defense. The circumstantial evidence is strong, and a rookie detective from the L.A.

A dead man rides the chairlift to the bottom of a ski hill on Whistler Mountainches Former RCMP homicide detective Hunter Rayne is at the top of the suspect list, so Hunter has no choice but to get involved in the investigation in order to clear his name. Meanwhile, trucker Hunter was scheduled to haul a load of freight to Northern California, so he calls up his old friend, biker Dan Sorenson, to take his place behind the wheel. What connects the badass biker from Yreka, California to the most prolific female serial killer in US history?

While his Freightliner is awaiting repairs in Whitehorse, Yukon, Hunter and fellow driver, Dan (Sorry) Sorenson, kill time with a side trip to bush Alaska where a chance meeting with a young Alaskan woman awakens his interest in a baffling cold case. A reclusive trapper and his young girlfriend disappeared from a bloody cabin 25 years before, leaving their sled dogs chained outside. Reawakened memories of his past coupled with a recent murder find Hunter back in investigative mode with the blessings of Whitehorse RCMP boss Bartholomew Sam, son of a shaman and Hunter's old friend.

Andrew's mother, Marion, works for Epsom Electronics, a security company that makes high-tech spy gear. When she goes missing on the eve of a G8 summit in Halifax, Andrew and his father work desperately to find her. Luckily, Andrew and his best friend are no strangers to danger, and they follow Andrew's instincts-contrary to his father?s instructions. When the two friends are nearly caught in an explosion at Citadel Hill, Andrew realizes his mother could be in even more trouble than he thought.

Thirteen-year-old Grace is grieving over her father's mysterious death, dealing with her distraught mother's erratic parenting, and evading her creepy nosy neighbour, Mr. Stuckless. She and her friends like to get away from it all by hunting for fossils near their secret hideaway in an abandoned mine. But when Grace receives a strange note about her father's death, it sets off a chain of events that leads to Grace and her friends trying to solve the mystery behind her father?s disappearance.

"Fred has had a rough summer. His secret crush on Mai is going strong, his mother has barely recovered from a battle with cancer, and his unreliable father's diving business has gone completely underwater. Now Fred, Mai, and Grace, extraordinary fossil hunters, are at the Fortress of Louisbourg hunting a different kind of treasure. They are secretly excavating the historic site, trying to find a mass of jewels Fred's ancestor may have buried there; jewels that could save Fred's family.