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Mel Bradshaw, Quarrel with the Foe
Great War veteran Paul Shenstone is a police detective investigating an industrialist's murder in Prohibition-era Toronto. The waters are muddied when the investigation uncovers connections between the deceased Digby Watt and soldiers Shenstone knew in Flanders. What will Shenstone's choice be if he has to arrest one of his own comrades? He has promised Watt's attractive and independent daughter that he will bring the perpetrator to justice, but bonds forged in war aren't easily broken.
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Trade paperback
RendezVous Press
ISBN: 1-894917-28-6
October 2005
$18.95 (US$15.95)
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William Deverell, April Fool
As this sequel to Trial of Passion opens, Arthur is married to Margaret, happily...except she is 50 feet up on a platform on an old-growth Douglas fir, saving the rain forest. Meantime, Arthur must journey to Vancouver to defend his long-time and quirkily engaging client, Nick (the Owl) Faloon, ex-jewel thief (once ranked number seven in the world), accused of murdering an attractive Ann Landerish pop-therapist.
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Hardcover
McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 0-7710-2711-7
October 2005
$39.00 (US$27.00)
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William Deverell, High Crimes
A merry band of Newfoundland smugglers are being used as pawns by a vindictive narc. The story moves to Miami, Colombia, and Toronto, and then back to Newfoundland, until a day-dreaming RCMP scientist discovers the plot.
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ECW Press
ISBN: 1-55022-697-5
October 2005
$20.00 (US$16.00)
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William Deverell, Mindfield
Montreal homicide detective Kellen O'Reilly suffers flashbacks (he doesn't know why) and is being targeted by killers (he doesn't know who). The investigative trail takes him back to his own youthful years when he discovers he may have been a victim of the CIA's MK-ULTRA experiments in Montreal using mind programming with LSD.
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ECW Press
ISBN: 1-55022-696-7
October 2005
$20.00 (US$16.00)
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Denise Dietz, Chain a Lamb Chop to the Bed: An Ellie Bernstein/Lt. Peter Miller Mystery
When diet club leader Ellie Bernstein's significant other, homicide detective Peter Miller, invites Ellie to vacation with him at an Aspen dude ranch, she accepts with trepidation. She suffers from acrophobia and tends to avoid such sports as skydiving, skiing, bungee- jumping, and horseback riding. Nevertheless, she needs to make friends with a black stallion named Satan and find the "art patron" who murdered her artist friend, before the weight loss she's achieved becomes permanent in a way she's never imagined.
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Hardcover
Five Star Mysteries
ISBN: 1-59414-422-2
November 2005
US$25.95
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Stanley Evans, Seaweed on the Street
A billionaire's daughter has vanished and Silas Seaweed, a West Coast Salish aboriginal policeman, is on the hunt. Following a trail of murder, greed, and violence, Seaweed investigates the missing woman's strange and unsavoury past. Pursuing clues from Victoria to Seattle to Reno and back, Seaweed unravels a family mystery stretching across three generations. The narrative is interwoven with vivid depictions of West Coast aboriginal mythology, magic, and religion.
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TouchWood Editions
ISBN: 1-894898-34-6
October 2005
$12.95 (US$9.95)
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Ted Griffith, Restoration: Murder, the Mob, and a 1964½ Mustang
Dominic paints cars in his brother's body shop in Hamilton. By night, he chops cars for a brutal Romanian mobster. But when a friend discovers a vintage Ford Mustang at the bottom of Hamilton Harbour, Dominic thinks his luck has changed. When the identity of the car's original owner is uncovered, Dominic stumbles into a long-forgotten mob murder. Now all the city's power players want the Mustang to disappear, just like it did in 1964.
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James Lorimer & Company Inc.
ISBN: 1-55028-886-5
October 2005
$24.95
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Lee Goldberg, The Man with the Iron-On Badge
Harvey Mapes, security guard at a gated community in the suburbs of Los Angeles, learned everything about being a P.I. from reading books and watching TV, but he soon discovers that the difference between fiction and reality can be deadly.
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Hardcover
Five Star Publishing
ISBN: 1-59414-372-2
November 2005
US$25.95
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Max Haines, Collected Works of Max Haines, Vol. 5
This anthology contains such infamous crimes as the murder of Martin Luther King, Nicole Brown Simpson, Marilyn Monroe, and John F. Kennedy, along with murders from 11 different countries, including Canada.
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Penguin Canada
ISBN: 0-143-05063-X
October 2005
$28.00
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Max Haines, Instruments of Murder
Another true crime anthology from the Toronto Sun's award-winning master of mayhem, Max Haines.
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Penguin Canada
ISBN: 0-143-01662-8
October 2005
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James Hawkins, Crazy Lady: A Love Story
How far would you go to regain the love of your life? Would it be totally crazy to write yourself and your lost lover into a mystery/romance novel for the whole world to read? Perhaps. But when true love strikes even a high flying police detective can be smacked off course. So will Chief Inspector David Bliss solve life's greatest mystery, the mystery of love, or will he be just another victim of a Crazy Lady?
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Dundurn Press (A Castle Street Mystery)
ISBN: 1-55002-581-3
November 2005
$11.99
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The Ladies' Killing Circle, When Boomers Go Bad
This newest anthology of short crime fiction from the Ladies' Killing Circle takes a spirited look at baby boomers as they go from young, hairy, and hip to old, bald, and bad.
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RendezVous Press
ISBN: 1-894917-31-6
October 2005
$14.95
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Peter A. Macarthur, Fat Jack
For Montreal-based private investigator Daniel MacAlpine, life isn't easy: relationship troubles, business problems and repeated Fat Jack issues. Jack is rich, an important client of Leclair and MacAlpine Investigations, and secretive to the point of hurting Dan's attempts to help him. To work Fat Jack's case, Dan MacAlpine must navigate the streets of Montreal and its West End where the natives, if not always helpful, are memorable.
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Trade paperback
Price-Patterson Ltd.
ISBN: 1-896881-68-8
November 2005
$13.95
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Mary Jane Maffini, The Dead Don't Get Out Much: A Camilla MacPhee Mystery
Camilla tracks Mrs. Parnell around Italy, chasing old secrets with deadly ramifications. Can she save her friend? Will Ray Deveau abandon his romantic plans? Will Alvin redecorate Camilla's place? Yikes.
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RendezVous Press
ISBN: 1-894917-30-8
November 2005
$13.95
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Jeffrey Miller, Murder's Out of Tune
Des Cheshire is a cat who really swings. Normally, he's also the star sax player in the Billy Wonder Quartet. But when Wonder turns up dead on stage, Cheshire's the main suspect. In this second installment of the series Macleans magazine called "as literate as it is funny," Amicus, the acid-tongued courthouse cat, narrates the legal battle to defend Cheshire's not-so-good name.
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ECW Press
ISBN: 1-55022-703-3
October 2005
$19.95 (US$15.95)
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René Natan, Operation Woman in Black
Nothing seems to penetrate the criminal ring that plagues the town of Varlee until Conrad Tormez, using a speech emulator, replaces the Woman in Black with an ex-agent and amateur performer. But Operation Woman in Black isn't the only challenge Tormez must face, since for the last year he's been searching for his teenage mentally impaired daughter. And it's then that Tormez realizes that his opponents have deadly tentacles that can reach anybody, anywhere, anytime.
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PublishAmerica
ISBN: 1-4137-8365-1
October 2005
US$19.95
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Deborah Nicholson, Flirting with Disaster: A Kate Carpenter Mystery
Ever had a fight with your boyfriend and then been kidnapped by a killer? Kate Carpenter thinks she's going to improve her tan during the Festival, but an embittered former employee has another idea.
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Hardcover (library binding)
Severn House
ISBN: 0 7278 6281 2
December 2005
$34.95
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Steven Owad, Bodycheck
Two different gunmen want aging minor-league hockey player Behn McAvoy dead. This is troubling news for the journeyman winger as he has no enemies, no leads, and no desire to get got. Finding out who's calling the shots would be easier to do – if only the shots would stop coming.
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RendezVous Press
ISBN: 1-894917-22-7
October 2005
$13.95
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John F. Parker, Come Clean: A Kevin J. Porter Mystery
Ex-RCMP Chief Inspector. Chameleon killer. Hollywood North. Dashes of Shakespeare and X-Files. A loving gay relationship. All mixed together with horror and humour. And optioned by Vancouver's Dilemma Productions for an upcoming movie!
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Regal Crest Enterprises (Texas)
ISBN: 1-932300-43-0
November 2005
US$19.95
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Louise Penny, Still Life
When the body of a well-loved artist is found in the woods near Three Pines, Chief Inspector Gamache must use all his skills to bring to light the dark secrets of the seemingly idyllic Quebec village.
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McArthur & Company (Headline)
ISBN: 0-7553-2889-2
October 2005
$24.95
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Rick Porrello, Superthief: A Master Burglar, the Mafia and the Biggest Bank Heist in U.S. History
$uperthief is a captivating firsthand look at the life of Phil Christopher, a Mafia associate, former partner of notorious Canadian criminals and one of the most successful bank burglars in the U.S. In a raw and candid, sometimes humorous accounting, Rick Porrello takes his readers inside Phil's brutal street world and prison life and exposes the details behind the planning and execution of the biggest bank burglary in U.S. history. Television film rights sale pending.
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Hardcover
Next Hat Press/Bookmasters
ISBN: 0-9662508-5-0
December 2005
US$25.95
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Linda L. Richards, The Next Ex: A Madeline Carter Mystery
Former stockbroker-turned-daytrader Madeline Carter agrees to teach the indulged wife of an A-list movie producer about the stock market. When said wife turns up dead, Madeline finds herself in the middle of a series of murders while inadvertently opening up a 40-year-old cold case. "A bracingly intelligent whodunit." – author Laura Lippman
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Mass market paperback
MIRA Books
ISBN: 0-7783-2240-8
December 2005
$8.50 (US$6.99)
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Caroline Roe, Consolation for an Exile: An Isaac of Girona Mystery
Danger and deceit beset two different families both close to Isaac while he must cope with the sudden death of a patient.
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Mass market paperback
Berkley Prime Crime
ISBN: 0-425-20181-3
November 2005
$10.99
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Michael Slade, Swastika
In the closing days of World War II, Hitler summons SS General Ernst Streicher to his Berlin bunker to discuss the Third Reich's only hope to win the war. In present-day Vancouver, the RCMP's Special X squad is on the hunt for a pair of Nazi-inspired killers. When Special X turns to the FBI for links to a "swastika signature" in the States, the Pentagon ties the clue to the long-kept secret of what crashed at Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. Swastika revolves around a cat-and-mouse game embroiling the Mounties, Pentagon hit men, and the Nazi psychopaths.
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Penguin Canada
ISBN: 0-14-305325-6
November 2005
$24.00
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Cheryl Kaye Tardif, The River
Del Hawthorne 's father and three of his friends vanished seven years ago along the Nahanni River – a river of mysterious deaths and disappearances. When one of the missing men surfaces, alive but barely recognizable and aging before her eyes, Del is shocked. Especially when the man tells her something inconceivable. Her father is still alive! Now Del's going back for him, unaware of the terror that lies, waiting...
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Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1-4120-6229-2
October 2005
$25.99
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Jo-Ann Terpstra, It's Murder on Gabriola
Driven by a desperate desire to escape her mundane life in the city, Lulu Jenkins grabs the opportunity to manage The Paradise Inn on Gabriola Island. It appears to be the perfect opportunity to relax in a rural retreat and sort her life out, but when she arrives she becomes immersed in the Island culture, and the sorting-out process becomes far more transformational than she anticipated. Gabriola is a beautiful island, but the Inn is haunted by a mysterious past, the locals are quirky, some of the guests are vampire hunters, and someone close to her is a murderer.
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Jade Dragonfly Press
ISBN: 0-9738902-0-7
October 2005
$15.95
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