Detective and mystery fiction

  • Roses for a Diva

    Creator

    Blechta, Rick

    Abstract

    A music star attracts a secret admirer, who turns into a dangerous stalker, and then, perhaps, a killer. When soprano Marta Hendriks finds a bouquet of red roses in her dressing room after a performance, she’s surprised as well as charmed. The card only says "Roses for a Diva." And as miles and performances rack up in her globe-hopping career, the bouquets continue to mysteriously appear. But then strange things start happening in her private life. She’s certain someone has been in her apartment, breaking her most treasured possession.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Not specified
  • Thin Ice Capital Crime

    Creator

    Wilkshire, Nick

    Abstract

    Hockey is a dangerous game, but it’s what happens off the ice that can get you killed … Curtis Ritchie is the only news in town when Ottawa takes the young hockey sensation first overall in the annual spring draft. But on the eve of Ritchie’s rookie season, the media frenzy over the signing and the controversial trades that secured the young star are eclipsed by news of his murder. As Ottawa Major Crimes Unit investigator Jack Smith reassembles Ritchie’s life, he is surprised by how much it differs from the fledgling star’s clean-cut image.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Not specified
  • Old Bones A Casey Templeton Mystery

    Creator

    Molnar, Gwen

    Abstract

    Casey Templeton is in a bind when he must foil a burglary of dinosaur bones. While helping with a real dinosaur dig at the world-famous Royal Tyrrell Museum, Casey Templeton finds a piece of dinosaur tooth. Excited, he spends all afternoon looking for the rest of the tooth, but all he ends up getting is a nasty sunburn. Lying in his hotel room that night, trying to recover, he sees and hears two men in a nearby room planning a robbery of precious artifacts from the Tyrrell. Later, Casey tells the museum’s curator (and old family friend), Dr. Norman, what he has seen and heard. Dr.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Not specified
  • None So Blind An Inspector Green Mystery

    Creator

    Fradkin, Barbara

    Abstract

    Did Inspector Green put the wrong man behind bars? Twenty years ago, a raw and impressionable Detective Michael Green helped convict a young professor for the murder of an attractive co-ed. From behind bars, the man continued to hound Green with letters protesting his innocence. Shortly after being paroled, he is found dead. Is it suicide? Revenge? Or had Green made the biggest mistake of his career — a mistake which cost an innocent man his liberty and ultimately his life?

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Not specified
  • Blood Will Out A Moretti and Falla Mystery

    Creator

    Downie, Jill

    Abstract

    In this third book in the series, can Moretti and Falla solve a mysterious case of vampirism? While investigating the apparent suicide of a hermit, Detective Inspector Ed Moretti and his partner, Liz Falla, of the Guernsey Police have to deal with what seems to be an outbreak of vampirism. Can the threat be real? Or is it something possibly provoked by Hugo Shawcross, who is writing a play about vampires for a local theatre group, and who narrowly escapes becoming the first victim?

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Not specified
  • Belle Palmer Mysteries 5-Book Bundle Northern Winters Are Murder / Blackflies Are Murder / Bush Poodles Are Murder / Murder Eh? / Memories Are Murder

    Creator

    Allin, Lou

    Abstract

    Presenting the five novels of the acclaimed Belle Palmer literary mystery series by Lou Allin, in a definitive ebook bundle. Belle is a realtor living a peaceful life just outside the northern city of Sudbury, Ontario. But crime has a way of finding her, and the vast forests of the Canadian Shield are a great place to conceal a murder…. Often, Belle must use all of her resourcefulness to survive harrowing encounters with murderers in the unforgiving wilderness of Canada’s near north.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Not specified
  • Granville Island Mysteries 2-Book Bundle Depth of Field / Overexposed

    Creator

    Blair, Michael

    Abstract

    Presenting two novels in the Granville Island series by Michael Blair. Commercial photographer Tom McCall sees a lot of Vancouver in his job, but he sees more than he’d like to when murderers strike. Witty and fast-paced, these stories make Canada’s largest Western city as much a character as the criminals lurking therein. In Depth of Field, McCall’s business partner is killed, and in Overexposed a corpse shows up at McCall’s own home."Blair has a great eye for the small details of place, and his view of Vancouver is a delight.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Not specified