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Detective-Lieutenant Gene Trimble faces an increasing number of bizarre suicides in a world struggling to come to terms with its place in a multiverse of different timelines, where every decision e

How would you spend your last night on Earth?

For the last five years, Ben Allan has successfully kept dromomania the peculiar male hysteria known as the mid-life crisis at bay, even writing an award-winning essay on the subject.

On a three-tiered stage in the Ontario countryside, the mellifluous voice of an auctioneer can induce grizzled farmers to buy broken shovels.

"According to what we've been told, the source of all knowledge is somewhere just south of Sunset Boulevard.

Shannon Carew has a complicated relationship with history. Born a Newfoundler, she has spent years on the other side of the country in order to erase her past and set down new roots.

After stumbling on a bank robbery in progress, Mary Apostrophes and Bill Brown are mistaken for superheroes, and a video of their accidental gallantry goes viral.

English novelist Guy Boyd's publisher forces him, against his inclination, to write a biography of the late Gabriel Brown, an eminent dealer in Old Masters.

When a small fire starts to creep through the underbrush deep within a Montana forest valley, Porter Cassel is brought in to organize the firefighters charged with containing it.

In 1831, eighteen-year-old Oonagh Corcoran emigrates with her sister from southern Ireland to Upper Canada.

A year after a tragic accident, thirteen-year-old William McCoy runs away to Lunenburg, Nova Scotia to be with his late father's family.

In a small working-class town, the building of a new dam uproots everyone and everything including the graveyard and those who rest beneath it.

"Set in nineteenth-century Tokyo and twentieth-century Boston, Pure Inventions tells of the incredible adventures of Hiroshiprankster, forger, authenticator, and artist.

Gloria Murray's daughter jokes that Gloria would have sold her first born to further her musical career - a reproach closer to the truth than anyone but Gloria suspects.

Liz Ryerson believes that Hillcrest Village, her Toronto neighbourhood, is quaint and quiet, but stumbling over a corpse while walking her dog dissolves that illusion for good.