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Fiction that reconsiders, challenges, reshapes, and/or upholds national narratives of history has long been an integral aspect of Canadian literature.

What do literary dystopias reflect about the times?

Meet The Gorgons The Legionnaires Chicken Treblinka The Statistics . . . Meet Dee, Gordyn, Em, and Jay, indecisive members of the greatest New Wave band to ever spring from River Bend City.

When English Professor Marta Spëk is offered a film consultant’s contract, she’s fighting a bad case of year-end doldrums.

An American psychologist accepts an invitation to her estranged husband's isolated English estate in this suspenseful tale by an Edgar Award-winning author.

A woman investigates the mysterious death of her mother in Santa Fe in this New York Times bestseller by a "master of suspense" (Mary Higgins Clark).

A woman is forced to face the tragedies of the past when she's summoned back to her Colorado home in this novel from "a master of suspense " (Mary Higgins Clark).

The wife of a scientist fights for her marriage-and her husband's sanity-in postwar Japan in this novel by "a superb and gifted storyteller" (Mary Higgins Clark).

A millionaire's Florida estate becomes a sinister trap for his bride in this classic gothic romance from "a superb and gifted storyteller" (Mary Higgins Clark).

A New York designer is reunited with her estranged family in Arizona after her father's murder in this novel of "romantic suspense at its wildest" (Cosmopolitan).

A Manhattan editor investigates her sister's suspicious death in Istanbul in this novel by the New York Times-bestselling "queen of the American gothics" (TheNew York Times).

A bride is swept up in family secrets and the blood diamond trade when she returns to South Africa in this novel by a New York Times-bestselling author.

A governess becomes entangled with a dysfunctional and dangerous family in this novel by a New York Times-bestselling "master of suspense" (Mary Higgins Clark).

A man's death in the Smoky Mountains raises the suspicions of his estranged wife in this suspenseful novel by a New York Times-bestselling author.

A bookseller reunites with her estranged, enigmatic father in Key West in this suspenseful novel by a New York Times-bestselling author.