April 2009
BOOKS COMING OUT
BETWEEN
APRIL & JUNE 2009
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Gordon Aalborg, Dining with Devils On a Tasmanian grazing property, a gundog judge dies in an incident seen but not understood by police sergeant Charlie Banes and Canadian author Teague Kendall. Meanwhile, Kendall’s almost-lover is kidnapped elsewhere in Tasmania. Then Kendall goes missing. It takes all Charlie’s “country cop” skills to discover the links, which involve Kendall’s vengeful ex-wife, a psychotic ex-Viet Nam sniper, and a killer believed to have been dead for more than a year! Aided by a cranky old bushman and his even-crankier Jack Russell terrier, Charlie also has help from the ubiquitous Tasmanian Devils – world-class scavengers with their own ideas about appropriate table manners. |
Hardcover Five Star ISBN: 978-1-59414-749-1 April 2009 US$25.95
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Lou Allin, Man Corn Murders In the rugged red-rock Utah desert, reporter Terry Hart and her feisty aunt explore the Escalante-Grand Staircase National Monument, a 1.7 million acre wilderness. In a remote cave, they discover the body of a missing university student. A tragic accident or did her fascination with the controversial theory about cannibalism among the ancient Anasazi and Fremont tribes lead to her doom? As Terry uncovers more clues, she must take her chances in the dazzling but dangerous confines of a slot canyon where death lurks upstream. |
Hardcover Five Star ISBN: 978-1-59414-750-0 May 2009 US$25.95 |
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Anthony Bidulka, Aloha, Candy Hearts: A Russell Quant Mystery From Pacific to Prairie, a teasing treasure hunt turns into a frightening game of cat and mouse. P.I. Russell Quant is plunged into the vagaries of a shocking hometown murder and the blasphemous blackmail of one of the literary world's most esteemed writers. Attempting to keep pace with his latest mystery, Russell balances his professional life with the demands of a wedding, a memorial, and at least one home-cooked meal at Mom’s. With the Hawaiian sand barely shaken from his hair, Russell is confronted, both professionally and personally, with the harsh consequences of indecision. Saying hello and good-bye is never easy. |
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Gail Bowen, The Brutal Heart: A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery (#11) With a general election just weeks away, Joanne Kilbourn is putting together a TV program about the election campaign of Ginny Monaghan, a controversial woman who has her eyes on the leadership of the federal Conservative Party. It’s a welcome distraction for Joanne from the news of the brutal murder of a local call girl, one whose prominent clientele had once included Joanne’s new husband. Her marriage creaking under the strain of this revelation, Joanne throws herself into her work and into finding out why the dead woman threatened to blackmail her clients, an investigation that jeopardizes her marriage – and her life. |
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Brenda Chapman, Jennifer Bannon begins Grade 11 at Springhills High, and her life is far from settled. Jennifer’s mother has moved to L.A. with her new husband and is determined to have Jennifer’s younger sister, Leslie, join them. Adding to the upheaval, Jennifer’s boyfriend, Pete, leaves to study pre-med at McGill University, while a mysterious boy named Evan starts hanging around Jennifer as rumours fly that his family is hiding from the law. Trail of Secrets is a suspenseful tale of hidden motives and people who are not what they seem. |
Trade paperback Napoleon Publishing (Napoleon & Company) ISBN: 978-1-894917-76-6 April 2009 $9.95
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Daniel Edward Craig, “A lively mix of the macabre with Craig’s ever-urbane humor…an entertaining third outing.” – Publishers Weekly. |
Trade paperback Midnight Ink Books ISBN: 978-0-738714738 April 2009 $18.50
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Vicki Delany, Gold Digger: A Klondike Mystery It’s the spring of 1898 in Dawson, Yukon Territory. The Klondike Gold Rush is in full swing and Fiona MacGillivray has crawled over the Chilkoot Pass, determined to make her fortune as the owner of the Savoy dance hall. Provided, that is, if several things don’t get to her first: her 12-year-old son; the former Glasgow street fighter who's now her business partner; a stern, handsome NWMP constable; a love-struck, ex-boxing champion; a wild assortment of dancers, croupiers, gamblers, madams without hearts of gold, hangers-on, cheechakos and sourdoughs…and Fiona's own nimble-fingered past. And then there’s a dead body on centre stage. |
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Denise Dietz, Strangle a Loaf of Italian Bread: Sara Lee, a waitress at Uncle Vinnie's Gourmet Italian Restaurant, plans to try out for the John Denver Community Theatre's production of Hello, Dolly!, but before she can, she's strangled with a Daffy Duck necktie and trashed in her restaurant's dumpster. Diet club leader and mystery maven, Ellie Bernstein, wants to know why everybody didn't like Sara Lee. At the same time, Ellie is dog-sitting a diet club member's border collie as well as coping with the reaction of her cat, Jackie Robinson, to the canine guest. Then Ellie discovers that the dog's owner has disappeared into thin air… |
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Elizabeth J. Duncan, The Cold Light of Mourning The Welsh town of Llanelen is shocked when posh bride Meg Wynne Thompson goes missing on her wedding day. The last person believed to have seen her is manicurist Penny Brannigan, an expatriate Canadian. With her new friend, Victoria, Penny sets out to find the killer. They soon determine that several people, including the bride’s drunken, abusive father, had reasons to wish the bride dead but when the trail leads them to Ty Brith, the groom’s home, they uncover an explosive secret at the heart of Britain’s underworld. The Cold Light of Mourning is the winner of the Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery competition. |
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Anne Emery, Barrington Street Blues: A Collins/Burke Mystery A rich man and a poor man are found dead of gunshot wounds on Barrington Street. It's declared a murder-suicide, but Monty Collins suspects a double murder, especially after police link the gun to the death of a high-flying lawyer named Dice Campbell. Helped by his friend, Father Brennan Burke, and hindered by his femme fatale law partner, Felicia Morgan, Monty explores the dark side of Halifax. But murder isn't the only thing on Monty's mind. Turmoil at home has him singing the blues, lashing out at his closest friends, and spending far too much time in Halifax bars. |
Trade paperback ECW Press ISBN: 978-1-55022-906-6 May 2009 $14.95 |
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Anne Emery, Cecilian Vespers: A Collins/Burke Mystery Lawyer/bluesman Monty Collins is used to defending murderers, as well as occasionally investigating murders himself. But he's never come up against anything like the case of Reinhold Schellenberg, world-renowned German theologian and former Vatican insider, whose blood-drenched body has been found on the altar of a church during Vespers on Saint Cecilia's day. Monty faces an international cast of suspects, including a flamboyant Sicilian priest who left the Vatican under a cloud, and a cop from East Berlin. The investigation takes Monty, and pal Father Brennan Burke on an odyssey to Europe in search of a motive for the grisly crime. |
Hardcover ECW Press ISBN: 978-1-55022-861-8 May 2009 $24.95 |
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Anne Emery, Obit: A Collins/Burke Mystery Declan Burke fled Ireland for New York 40 years ago and has never looked back. Then he sees his own obituary in the paper. Monty Collins – lawyer, bluesman, and perpetual suitor to his estranged wife, Maura – investigates the obit with its veiled threat and its allusions to Burke's IRA past. Declan – good soldier to the end – maintains the silence of the grave. But his denial is hard to maintain when gunfire erupts at a family wedding and a body is found in a rundown Brooklyn flat. It soon becomes clear that Declan has been manipulated all along by an unseen hand. |
Trade paperback ECW Press ISBN: 978-1-55022-905-9 May 2009 $14.95 |
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C.B. Forrest, The Weight of Stones Toronto Metro Hold-up Squad Detective Charlie McKelvey is nearing the end of his career. It should be a time of reflection and preparation for a new chapter, but McKelvey’s life has been stuck on pause since the murder of his runaway teenage son. McKelvey has fingered a biker named Pierre Duguay for the murder. But is Duguay the right man or has McKelvey become blinded by his grief? Is it justice McKelvey seeks or something darker? As McKelvey closes in on Duguay, the biker finds himself at the centre of an internal dispute within the gang. The career criminal must choose between loyalty and survival as he heads towards a final and explosive showdown with the former cop with nothing left to lose… |
Trade paperback RendezVous Crime (Napoleon & Company) ISBN: 978-1-894917-78-0 May 2009 $15.95 |
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Linda Hall, Shadows on the River Shadows on the River is the third in Hall's “Shadows” series of novels. All three of the “Shadows” novels are about women who must face the shadows in their pasts before they can move onto life and love in the present. In Shadows on the River, heroine Ally Roarke witnessed a horrific crime when she was 14 years old. She watched her best friend murdered – and there was nothing she could do about it. No one believed her when she told them what she had seen. The story opens 25 years later. Ally is a single mom with a profoundly deaf daughter whom she would do anything for. When the partner of the man who murdered her childhood friend dies, she suspects foul play. |
Mass market paperback Harlequin-Steeple Hill/Love Inspired ISBN: 978-0-373-44336-9 April 2009 $6.50 |
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Susanna Kearsley, The Winter Sea History has all but forgotten the spring of 1708, when an invasion fleet of French and Scottish soldiers nearly succeeded in landing the exiled James Stewart in Scotland to reclaim his crown. Now, Carrie McClelland hopes to turn that story into her next bestseller. Creating a heroine named for one of her own ancestors, she starts to write. But when she discovers her novel is more fact than fiction, Carrie learns she might be dealing with ancestral memory... "A deeply engaging romance and a compelling historical novel. Susanna Kearsley has written a marvellous book" - Bernard Cornwell. |
Mass market paperback Allison & Busby ISBN: 978-0749007409 April 2009 $10.95 |
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Kathy-Diane Leveille, Let the Shadows Fall Behind You The truth is people disappear from our lives all the time; the fiction is our belief in the power to find them. When Brannagh’s boyfriend, Nikki, disappears on a bird count in Northern Ontario, she reluctantly agrees to return to the east coast for a reunion of the childhood all-girls club, Tuatha-de-Dananns. Brannagh hides out at her Grandmother’s cottage which is far too close to the dark woods where her mother was murdered 15 years ago. As Brannagh struggles to solve the mystery of Nikki’s vanishing, she is haunted by the dark secrets behind the most startling disappearance of all. “Leveille is a keen observer of character and place.” – Globe and Mail |
Hardcover Kunati Inc. ISBN: 978-1-601641670 April 2009 $25.95 |
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Cheryl MacDonald, Great Canadian Imposters All contains fascinating stories about "great pretenders," including Cassie Chadwick of Woodstock, who bilked banks out of millions by pretending to be Andrew Carnegie’s illegitimate daughter, and Ferdinand Waldo Demara, who masqueraded as a Canadian naval surgeon during the Korean War. Plus Grey Owl, Long Lance, Dr. James Barrie, Henri LeCaron, and more. Another instalment in the Amazing Stories series. |
Trade paperback James Lorimer & Company ISBN: 978-1-55277-411-3 April 2009 $9.95 |
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Cheryl MacDonald, Murder! The Mysterious Death of Canadian Mining Magnate Sir Harry Oakes Harry Oakes made his fortune mining in northern Ontario, then left Canada for the Bahamas to dodge taxes. His wealth and connections made him the richest baronet in the British Empire…until he was found murdered and partly burned in his bed. Interference by the Duke of Windsor, then Governor of the Bahamas, led to a badly botched investigation and the arrest of Oakes’s playboy son-in-law. One of the most notorious unsolved crimes of the 1940s! Another instalment in the Amazing Stories series. |
Trade paperback James Lorimer & Company ISBN: 978-1-55277-407-6 May 2009 $9.95 |
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Mary Jane Maffini, Recent murders have unbalanced Charlotte Adams's life and ruined her favorite footwear. The professional organizer and accidental sleuth is relieved that a killing in normally quiet Woodbridge has nothing to do with her. Nothing at all. Really. Charlotte agrees to help with an awkward office situation involving a stunningly messy desk. Seems fun and harmless. But when the owner of the messy desk vanishes, Charlotte is fired. The police are strangely tight-lipped. As Charlotte digs around to discover what's going on, she stumbles over another body and becomes a target herself. How messy is that? Dogs and organizing tips included. |
Mass market paperback Berkley Prime Crime ISBN: 978-0-425228098 May 2009 $7.50 |
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Norah McClintock, Back: An Orca Soundings Novel |
Trade paperback Orca Books ISBN: 978-1-551439-89-1 April 2009 $9.95 |
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Eugene Meese, A Magpie’s Smile When the scalped remains of a Jane Doe are discovered within the rubble of a demolished house, Detective Jake Fry is assigned the task of hunting down Calgary’s most disturbed murderer. Working against a rising body count and police department politics, Fry must relentlessly pursue a murderer with an agenda no one but he can comprehend. During Calgary’s first economic boom, people flocked from all corners of the country to the city rumoured to have streets paved in gold. Explore the dark side of this boom in A Magpie’s Smile, a tautly chronological police thriller and cinematic portrait of the frenetic Calgary of the 1970s. |
Trade paperback NeWest Press ISBN: 978-1-897126-42-4 June 2009 $12.95 |
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John Moss, Grave Doubts: A Quin and Morgan Mystery The discovery of two headless corpses dressed in colonial clothing and locked in a grisly embrace draws Detectives Miranda Quin and David Morgan of the Toronto Police Service into a Gothic mixture of sex and death that ultimately threatens their own survival. Miranda and David get caught up in a story of inspired depravity. Through revelations in such diverse locations as a Toronto demolition site, a lonely farmhouse on Georgian Bay, the crypt of a derelict church, and inside the murky depths of a shipwreck, this strange account of love, lust, and murder builds to a horrific crescendo. |
Mass market paperback A Castle Street Mystery (Dundurn Group) ISBN: 978-1-55488-405-6 April 2009 $11.99 |
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Curtis Parkinson, The Castle on Deadman’s Island (YA) Mysterious disappearances, nefarious schemers, secret passageways, sunken boats, a castle in the Thousand Islands said to be cursed. All these challenge Graham, Neil, and Crescent in their latest adventure. "…set during the Second World War…just enough detail to let the period take on its own life as the narrative careens forward to its exciting climax on the St. Lawrence River." – Quill & Quire "Parkinson has truly proven himself as a craftsman of suspense, and with indisputable certainty, Neil and Graham will be solving many more mysteries to come. Highly recommended." – CM Magazine |
Trade paperback Tundra Books ISBN: 978-0-88776-893-4 April 2009 $14.95 |
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Ross Pennie, Tainted: A Dr. Zol Szabo Medical Mystery Dr. Zol Szabo gazes across the Niagara Escarpment, his fingers crossed. Three citizens on ice in the university’s morgue, mad-cow prions riddling their brains – it must be just a cruel coincidence. If not, Zol’s patch of the province’s public-health map is a disaster about to explode onto grocery-store shelves and newspaper headlines. “Pennie’s mystery debut introduces a winning protagonist.” – Publishers Weekly “Fascinating and fast-paced, a medical thriller with the high-stakes tension of a frightening epidemic. Ross Pennie knows how to weave real science with crackling suspense." – Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author of a dozen medical thrillers |
Hardcover ECW Press ISBN: 978-1-55022-860-1 April 2009 $24.95 |
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Peter Robinson, All the Colours of Darkness: On the first warm day of the year, a few children playing in the woods shockingly find a man in a brightly coloured shirt hanging from a branch by a rope around his neck. With Alan Banks in London, the case falls to Annie Cabbot. And she’s mystified. Why would a successful set and costume designer be in such despair that he would take his own life? All the Colours of Darkness is an exceptionally gripping and intricately plotted story that delivers hard truths about jealousy and betrayal – and about the insidious, corrosive power of secrets. |
Mass market paperback McClelland & Stewart ISBN: 978-0-7710-7617-6 May 2009 $11.99 |
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Peter Robinson, The Price of Love and Other Stories Peter Robinson’s versatile talent is on full display in the 12 stories that comprise his latest short story collection, The Price of Love and Other Stories. Spellbinding plots, suspense that grips and won’t let go, utterly unpredictable twists, psychological truths both sweet and scary, characters you’d like to meet (and some you’d hope never to encounter), all set in places that are characters themselves – these are the fundamentals of story and mystery that Robinson plays like the virtuoso he is. |
Hardcover McClelland & Stewart ISBN: 978-0-7710-7544-5 June 2009 $32.99 |
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Peter Robinson, Playing with Fire: An Inspector Banks Novel (#14) When the burned remains of two bodies are found, Inspector Alan Banks wonders whether one of their occupations caused their deaths. One victim was a local artist; the other was a young woman, a junkie. But if the fire was an accident, why did her boyfriend bolt from the scene when the police arrived? And why did the neighbour who discovered the fire not call it in right away? In his fourteenth Inspector Banks mystery, Peter Robinson once more displays his extraordinary skill in creating memorable characters, a haunting narrative, and a subtly unveiled plot. |
Mass market paperback McClelland & Stewart ISBN: 978-0-7710-7619-0 June 2009 $11.99 |
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Jeffrey Round, Death in Key West: A Bradford Fairfax Mystery Mae West meets Oscar Wilde in yet another madcap romp in the world’s original Gay Shangri-La. |
Trade paperback Cormorant Books ISBN: 978-1-897151433 May 2009 $20.00 |
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Stephen Schneider, Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada In the global arena of crime today, Canada is both a branch-plant operation and international headquarters to the Italian Mafia, outlaw motorcycle gangs, Chinese triads, Eastern European crime groups and South American drug cartels. Iced is the most complete and exhaustive treatment of organized crime in Canada, replete with colourful – and villainous – characters, and stories and accounts of a dimension of Canadian history that isn’t taught in school. |
Trade paperback John Wiley & Sons Canada ISBN: 978-0-470-83500-5 April 2009 $29.95 |
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Phyllis Smallman, Sex in a Sidecar: A Sherri Travis Mystery Terror is being trapped on an island off Florida’s west coast with a category three hurricane raging in the Gulf of Mexico – and a murderer on the loose. Out at the Bath and Tennis Club, a place where every night is fright night for the millionaire weirdoes in the bar, victims and their predators prowl the luxurious complex, searching for what they need. A woman is murdered and another woman decides to commit suicide by being the next victim. Bartender Sherri Travis pours the drinks, listens to the stories, trying to make sense of it all, and tries to stay alive. |
Trade paperback McArthur & Company ISBN: 978-1-55278-773-1 May 2009 $24.95 |
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Frank Smith, The Cold Hand of Malice: A DCI Neil Paget Mystery And who is that mysterious stranger attending Laura’s funeral? |
Hardcover Severn House ISBN: 978-0-7278-6749-0 April 2009 $22.78 |
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Trisha Smith, Holiday in Hell Holiday in Hell serves as a wake-up call to Canadians. But it also conveys hope that the outdated Canadian Criminal Code 6(2) can be amended. Holiday in Hell is a true-life story of courage, faith, love and determination. |
Hardcover Asteroid Publishing ISBN: 978-0-9731379-6-5 April 2009 $19.95 |
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Michelle Wan, A Twist of Orchids: A Novel of Death in the Dordogne Winter in the Dordogne. Mara Dunn and Julian Wood, living in an already uneasy relationship, are confronted by a series of shattering events. Friend and neighbour Amélie Gaillard plunges mysteriously to her death. Her ailing husband is terrorized by a murderous apparition. The son of Julian's favourite purveyors of Turkish delicacies dies of an overdose. An undercover narc is murdered. A serial burglar is at work. And unscrupulous orchid hunters connive in the background. As the sleuthing pair clash over how to unravel this maze of mysteries, they find to their peril that more than their relationship is at stake. |
Trade paperback Anchor Canada ISBN: 978-0-385-66485-1 June 2009 $19.95 |
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Older releases by new CWC members And now some books published in 2008 & early 2009 by authors
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Charles Scheideman, Policing the Fringe is a collection of unforgettable stories from Sergeant Charlie Scheideman’s 27 years on the RCMP front lines, patrolling the small and sometimes isolated communities of interior British Columbia. With wry humour and a policeman’s eye for relevant detail, Scheideman recounts events that range from the ridiculous to the horrific to the tragic, making Policing the Fringe one of the most revealing accounts ever written about policing in small-town Canada. It will give readers new respect for the men and women who patrol Canada’s backroads – because of both the extremely taxing work they do and the good spirit with which they do it. |
Trade paperback Harbour Publishing ISBN: 978-1-55017-482-3 March 2009 $24.95 |
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Christine Hart, Watching July (YA) “A very good novel, worth the short but sweet read...” – Nexus Newspaper, September 2008 “...a cunningly written book, with strong and vivid characters, plot twists and turns.” – A 'n' E Vibe Magazine, June 2008 |
Trade paperback Sumach Press ISBN: 978-1-894549-71-4 April 2008 $12.95 |
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E-books To accommodate the increasing interest in e-books, Cool Canadian Crime will now include e-book listings. |
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Nicola Furlong, A Hemorrhaging of Souls A series of unexplained deaths shatters the serenity of a Vancouver Island girls' school, and Tempest Ivory, child psychologist and soprano, races to solve the mystery before it claims more lives. Tempest lands a coveted lead role in Rigoletto, but as she prepares for her operatic debut, the explosive secrets lurking behind the academy walls set her on a collision course with her past. "...draws you in compellingly from the opening page…a gripping story of death and family secrets…The characters are quirky and sympathetic." – The Paper Chase |
E-book Available for iPhone/iPod, other mobile devices & computers. Formats: rtf, pdf, mobi, epub, lrf, pdp, txt Download from: www.itunes.com (appstore), www.shortcovers.com, www.smashwords.com |
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Nicola Furlong, Teed Off! When Riley Quinn tees off an investigation into a suspicious death, her inquiries pitch her behind the scenes of professional women's golf and jeopardize her new career as part-time coroner. As the tournament progresses, she finds herself sand-wedged by a villainous environmental group, a mysterious Japanese consortium and her estranged sister. "Nicola Furlong is a wonderful new addition to the mystery world. An outstanding effort; as much fun as a day on the course." – The Richmond Times-Dispatch "Well written, well researched and captivating." – Inside Golf "I loved it! I'm going to miss these people." – Jenny Wyatt, LPGA winner |
E-book Available for iPhone/iPod, other mobile devices & computers. Formats: rtf, pdf, mobi, epub, lrf, pdp, txt Download from: www.itunes.com (appstore), www.shortcovers.com, www.smashwords.com |
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A.R. Grobbo, One Woman’s Poison: A Gloria Trevisi Mystery An old high school diary contains an incriminating secret, poisoned preserves are killing the locals, and newspaper editor Gloria Trevisi is about to experience the worst two weeks of her life. One Woman’s Poison is the fourth Gloria Trevisi Mystery. Also available in trade paperback from Lulu.com, US$17.98 "...crisply written, tightly plotted and filled with characters who walk right off the page." – Dee Lloyd, award-winning author
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E-book Available in nearly all e-book formats, including Sony and Kindle, and in Adobe PDF and other formats for computer. Download from: www.double-dragon-ebooks.com, www.fictionwise.com, www.ebookwise.com, Amazon, Lulu, and other sites where quality e-books are sold. |
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Debra Purdy Kong, Fatal Encryption When a computer hack threatens to destroy a family business and peoples' jobs in Vancouver, the McKinleys want Alex Bellamy to stop him. But Alex didn't count on dealing with fire...and murder. "Fatal Encryption is the type of book that makes you long for the next in the series as you approach the end – a page turner with more depth than most." – Julie Ferguson, author of Book Magic |
E-book Available in Mobipocket and Kindle formats. Download from: www.mobipocket.com or from the Kindle bookstore on Amazon. |
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Debra Purdy Kong, Taxed to Death After discovering evidence of fraud, tax auditor Alex Bellamy is attacked and his colleague murdered. Jillian Scott's the only one who can help him, but she has a terrifying reason for refusing to cooperate. "Taxed to Death is a superb mystery of plot twists and turns. A masterpiece of suspenseful storytelling." – Jim Cox, Midwest Review |
E-book Available in Mobipocket and Kindle formats. Download from: www.mobipocket.com or from the Kindle bookstore on Amazon. |
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Jerry Langton, Fallen Angel: The Unlikely Rise of Walter Stadnick and the Canadian Hells Angels Walter Stadnick is not an imposing man. At five-foot-four, his face and arms scarred by fire in a motorcycle accident, he would not spring to mind as a leader of Canada's most notorious biker gang, the Hells Angels. Yet through sheer guts and determination, intelligence and luck, this Hamilton-born youth who had the nickname of "Nurget" rose in the Hells Angels ranks to become national president. Not only did he lead the Angels through the violent war with their rivals, the Rock Machine, in Montreal in the 1990s, Stadnick saw an opportunity to grow the Hells Angels into a national criminal gang. He was a visionary – and a highly successful one. Fallen Angel details one man's improbable rise to power in one of the world's most violent organizations, while shedding light on how this enigmatic and dangerous biker gang operated and why it remains so powerful. |
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Richard S. Todd, Raincloud: A Novel Poverty. Drug Addiction. Desperation. Violence. Almost routine for the Native Canadians of Sky Lake. But when Jimmy Raincloud falls to a serial killer who is leaving a trail of bodies outside the tiny village, the animosity that exists between Sky Lake and the white population of nearby Scanlon Creek threatens to escalate to terrifying proportions. Hank Gillespie, a nightmare-ridden, mixed-race detective from Scanlon Creek, must save his own life as he penetrates the violent criminal underworld of police corruption, drug dealing, and depravity in an effort to find the murderer. The list of potential suspects is as long as it is deadly. Check them out for yourself (if you dare get that close), weigh the evidence and draw your conclusions. "This debut novel is excellent...expect great things in the future from this talented young writer." – Malcolm Watts, author of Reflections from Shadow |
E-book Downloadable to computer through http://tinyurl.com/OrderRaincloud (click on the e-book “Buy Now” button). |
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