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A Most Unpleasant Wedding
By Judith Alguire
Another summer, and The Pleasant Inn is filled to capacity. This season is especially exciting, as perennial guests Miss Miller and her long-time admirer Mr. Simpson have chosen to marry at the Inn. The guests and staff are clamouring to be involved, particularly Bonnie Lawrence, ... Read more
Advice for Taxidermists and Amateur Beekeepers
By Erin Vance
The sudden death of Margot Morris and her two young daughters in a house fire sends shock-waves through a small rural community. The Morris' are a close-knit family, long associated with the mysterious arts of taxidermy and bee-keeping. Margot's three surviving siblings, Teddy, ... Read more
Aloha Candy Hearts
By Anthony Bidulka
From the calm Pacific to the storm-tossed prairie, a teasing puzzle turns into a frightening game of cat and mouse for gay PI Russell Quant. Russell can’t be sure whether a dead man’s surprising last gift will take him on a treasure hunt or a treacherous game of life or ... Read more
Amuse Bouche
By Anthony Bidulka
New Edition of Canadian favourite Russell Quant's first case. A gay wedding gone bad. A missing groom. An unsullied reputation at risk. Enter Russell Quant —cute, gay, and a rookie private detective. With a nose for good wine and bad lies, Quant is off to France on his first ... Read more
And We Shall Have Snow
By Raye Anderson
New to the RCMP's Major Crimes Unit, Corporal Roxanne Calloway is keen to make her mark. She's young and ambitious. But when she's called from the big city to tiny Cullen Village to lead the investigation into the death of the talented but devious star of the local music scene--discovered ... Read more
Barrington Street Blues
By Anne Emery
Two men are found dead outside a bar. Helped by Father Brennan Burke and hindered by his femme fatale law partner, Monty Collins investigates people desperate to cover up a series of parties that got way out of hand.
A rich man and a poor man are found dead from gunshot wounds ... Read more
Bidding, The
By Bill Haugland
In 1972 a young girl is abducted and murdered. Montreal news reporter Ty Davis is drawn into a bizarre sequence of events when the body of the ten-year-old girl and the bodies of her kidnappers are found in a 19th century farmhouse in the Laurentian community of Saint Sauveur. ... Read more
Blood on a Saint
By Anne Emery
Award Winning mystery author Anne Emery returns with another installment in the Collins-Burke mystery series
“The writing bustles with energy, and with smart, wry dialogue and astute observations about crime and religion. ” — Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
Father Brennan ... Read more
Blue and Golden Year
By Alison Preston
When Kenneth spots maggots feeding on something shiny in the dumpster behind a 7-Eleven, he knows a crime has been committed. But exactly who, what, where, when and how are unravelled through a legion of characters, changes of season, and changes of setting throughout A Blue ... Read more