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John Straley: The Woman Who Married a Bear
“There is a story about a human being who marries a bear… How does it end? Depends…on where you are…on who the bear is” This story takes us into the heart of Sitka Alaska, the darker heart. Interlaced with lyrical observations of time and place we have a man convicted of murder. The victim’s mother…
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Ausma Zehanat Khan: The Unquiet Dead
What kind this justice? Christopher Drayton has fallen to his death from the Scarborough Bluffs. Inspector Esa Khattak and his hand- picked Sargent Rachel Getty are asked to quietly investigate. Puzzling, as the team remit for Khattak and Getty is minority sensitive cases. So begins an amazing book by Ausma Zehanat Khan. It will take…
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Ashley Dyer: Splinter in the Blood
Razor’s edge DS Ruth Lake finds her partner Greg Carver at home, shot and sitting in his easy chair, a gun on the floor. She is desperate to cover-up that he’s been working at home on the high-profile case the Thorn Killer murders. She takes the gun, his files, and wipes the scene. Carver survives…
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Jessica Barry: Freefall
Preview(opens in a new tab) Hard landing Maggie Carpenter is strong woman with a daughter missing from the site of a plane crash. Her attempts to keep the pain inside where it belongs, and her determination to understand what happened is intense. Being estranged from Allison for 2-years doesn’t bring her answers, and…
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Math Bird: Welcome to HolyHell
The return Missing money and the run to HolyHell. It starts with one body and ends with more. In the middle 12-year old Jay. Not long after Nash discovers Bowden has run off with his life savings, Bowden’s body is found in HolyHell. He fell from the roof of a home, the scene of another…
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Sarah A Denzil: Silent Child
Just what happened? He was 16 when he returned, malnourished, traumatized and mute. His mother hangs on to hope. His stepfather wants the ‘crazy’ out of the house. Emma Price-Hewitt finally moved on after the presumed drowning of her son Aiden 10-years earlier. She is married now and pregnant with a baby girl. Her…
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Wishing you a Season of Joy…
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Jessica Branton: How to Experience Death for Beginners
Mystery in the girl Available February 14th A young psychic has a serial killer on her radar. Blurred representations are mixed with images of a new student at her school, a boy that she is attracted to. He seems very interested in her and at times, desperate to be around her. The police are…
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Edwin Hill: Little Comfort
Find and follow Hester Thursby, small in stature, large in personality. She’s been asked to find a woman’s brother who hasn’t been seen for years, but mysterious postcards show up now and then. Two hollow men, one initiator, one follower. It takes her two days to find the missing brother but her instinct tells…
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Masako Togawa: The Lady Killer
Philanderer, killer The Lady Killer is a publication from 1963 translated from Japanese, it’s a little bit pulp and a little bit clever in its rendering of the tale. Ichiro Honda is a smooth operator who targets women to fulfill his sexual needs. He chooses the lonely and the uncertain. By his…
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A Canadian’s American Thanksgiving Quick Link to Literary Book Gifts I’m lucky that I get to celebrate Thanksgiving twice every year. In October in Canada with our sons, and November in the U.S. with friends. The mix changes each year and it is always a lovely time. For many of us, Thanksgiving is…
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Meghan Scott Molin: The Frame-Up
Vigilante in Tights? Available December 1st Michael-Grace is a cheeky bit of talent. She is also capable, independent, and determined to achieve a promotion at her job. It’s an off-the-cuff comment about a newspaper picture that has MG connecting with Detective Kildaire in a way that only a comic book artist can. A…
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James Hankins: Brothers and Bones
Duplicity Two brothers. One missing for 13-years, the other a successful federal prosecutor. Two words that change a life, and a rabbit hole no one would want to go down. Charlie Beckham never gave up looking for his brother Jake, he just hides it from his fiancee who is exasperated with his obsession.…
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Bryan Gruley: Bleak Harbor
Convolution Available December 1st A couple with an autistic son. Each parent with secrets, each parent fearful. Mysterious photos and texts on their phones. Same source, different origin? Same incident, different event? Both keeping things to themselves until it becomes apparent their absent son Danny is actually missing. Carey, smothering under the family name…
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Candace Fox: Crimson Lake
Lake of Tears In Crimson Lake, former detective Ted Conkaffey does his best to remain unnoticed. Charged with the sexual assault of a young girl, no one believes he is innocent when the charges are dropped due to insufficient evidence. Depressed at losing the right to visit his daughter, Conkaffey meets with…