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HQ has ruled that Chief Inspector Aliette Nouvelle's failure to carry her gun directly contributed to the messy conclusion of a major murder case she'd led the previous summer. Her career now depends on a drastic about-face. Aliette has been ordered to come into the city to practice at the Beziers police shooting range and attend counselling sessions two nights a week with psychologist Gabrielle Gravel. For Aliette, this is not only humiliating, it's inconvenient. Beziers is a 40-kilometre drive from her home base in Saint-Brin, a sleepy wine town in the south of France.

Gerry Coneybear thinks she has her busy life (and her many cats) under control. That is, until a dead body unexpectedly pops up. Gerry really doesn't want to get involved. But when she discovers a mysterious package tucked up in a tree in her yard, she realizes that's not going to be possible.

When Stella Magnusson, beautiful, talented but devious, turns up dead at the Cullen Village dump in Manitoba's Interlake, Margo Wishart and her Book Club take notice. So does Corporal Roxanne Calloway of the RCMP. Soon they are in a race to discover the killer as the temperature dips to minus forty and it looks like someone else is going to freeze to death.

It's April 1st, and Gerry Coneybear, who inherited her Aunt Maggie's big old house (and her aunt's twenty cats), is wishing her mountain of bills was a joke. She's just self-published her children's book, and that cost money. Plus the valuable painting she was hoping to sell has gone missing. Gerry has had the distinct feeling she's being stalked lately, and her kitten Jay has begun acting almost as if it's possessed. And then there's that suspicious death.

Action, intrigue, and magic collide in this epic fantasy following Sir Konrad Vonvalt, an Emperor's Justice, who is a detective, judge, and executioner all in one—but with rebellion and unrest building, these are dangerous times to be a Justice . . . The Empire of the Wolf simmers with unrest. Rebels, heretics, and powerful patricians all challenge the power of the Imperial throne. Only the Order of Justices stands in the way of chaos. Sir Konrad Vonvalt is the most feared Justice of all, upholding the law by way of his sharp mind, arcane powers, and skill as a swordsman.

Leo Desroches doesn't look Native, but his mother was Cree, so the Edmonton newspaper he writes for decides he should be their Aboriginal Issues reporter. Leo has his own issues to deal with: compulsive gambling that cost him his wife and children; alcoholism; and the risk-taking that threatens to derail him every time he starts to get his life back together.

A little known chapter of wartime Canada, the government maintained several German prisoner-of-war camps in Southern Alberta during World War II. Camp 133 was one of these camps. Veteran Guards were responsible for securing the perimeter but internal law and order at Camp 133 was enforced by POW Sergeant August Neumann, a village police officer by trade and a hero of the Great War. In July of 1944, not long after the Normandy invasion, Captain Mueller, a former tank officer teaching in the camp's education system is found dead. Suspecting foul play, Sergeant Neumann investigates.

If a local biker war isn't enough - 7 corpses are found buried on a farm - MacNeice receives a desperate phone call from the mayor of Dundurn. Dredging is nearly completed on the ambitious waterfront project the mayor hopes will revive his mini rust belt of a city, when 6 more bodies turn up at the bottom of the lake, and 2 of them, encased in concrete, are fairly fresh. The mayor wants MacNeice to fix things fast, but theres another "visionary" on the loose in Dundurn - a serial killer who wants to rid the city of high-achieving young women of colour.

During a mosquito-infested summer in Edmonton, Métis journalist Leo Desroches, who has just been released from jail, is called to the scene of an apparent overdose of a young Native man in the inner city. Some white rocks spill out of the body bag. They are not crack cocaine, as Leo first thinks, but rough diamonds. The victim was not a drug user, but a worker at one of the new diamond mines above the Arctic Circle. Leo is led to investigate a smuggling ring and a deadly, billion dollar conflict between Native groups, rival gangs, and international mining conglomerates. 2015.

Undercover as a homeless man, Leo Desroches, a half-Cree, half-French-Canadian reporter in Edmonton, has his hands full both on the job and in his personal life. As he tries to reconnect with his estranged son and fight his urge to gamble, he is consumed by a story that turns into a personal crusade: a search for a missing Native street kid hes befriended. When the boy is found brutally murdered, Leo explores the depths of Native street culture in a local gang, but secrets soon emerge that threaten not only the gang members, but Leos life - and his sanity.