Cool Canadian Crime CCC Previous Issues 2009 CCC Issues January 2009
January 2009
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Gordon Aalborg, The Horse Tamer's Challenge In the aftermath of the Custer debacle, Rebecca Susan Bennett's dying father had sworn her to rescue her twin sister Amy – an Indian captive – or kill her! “You might be keeping that promise on your own death bed,” was the reaction from Lucas Swallow, bound by his honor to help Rebecca if he could. For Lucas, Rebecca was a challenge and her plight a burden of the blood debt he couldn’t ignore. For the gently-reared Rebecca, the very land she traveled was an enemy; she hated and feared the west for its rawness, its violence. Her growing attraction to this enigmatic, mysterious man only complicated things further. |
Hardcover Five Star/Gale/Cengage ISBN: 978-1-59414-742-5 February 2009 US$25.95
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Michael Blair, Depth of Field: A Granville Island Mystery When Bobbi is brutally beaten and left for dead, McCall is determined to find out who did it. When he learns that Anna Waverley doesn’t actually own the boat she was supposedly interested in selling – and, in fact, that the woman claiming to be Anna Waverley may have been an imposter – he thinks he knows where to start his investigation. |
Mass market paperback Dundurn Group/A Castle Street Mystery ISBN: 978-1-55002-855-3 February 2009 $11.99 |
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P.A. Brown, L.A. Heat: A Chris Bellamere/David Laine Mystery In-the-closet detective David Eric Laine has kept his desires secret...until he meets Christopher Bellamere, proud and openly gay. When a series of horrific torture/murders of gay men leads the police to Chris, David is torn between his attraction for the most beautiful man he's ever met and his fears that the man's a vicious killer.
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Vicki Delany, Valley of the Lost: A Constable Molly Smith Mystery As the case becomes increasingly personal for them both, Probationary Constable Molly Smith and Sergeant John Winters are plunged into the strange netherworld of a young woman who didn’t exist and a town that was happy to let her remain that way. |
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Dave Hugelschaffer, One Careless Moment: A Porter Cassel Mystery In One Careless Moment, Porter Cassel finds himself in Montana to investigate a suspicious fire. During the investigation, he is caught in a sudden burnover that claims the life of a firefighter. Because he is the highest ranking official on the scene, he is blamed for the death and ordered to go home. But before leaving, he is approached by the victim’s beautiful daughter to find out who started the fire. He knows that he must tread lightly if he is to get at the truth – and, just as importantly, to get out alive. |
Trade paperback Cormorant Books ISBN: 978-1-897151-08-2 January 2009 (postponed from November 2008) $19.95
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José Latour, Crime of Fashion These are the last words that Elliot Steil expects to hear when he plays a DVD delivered to him anonymously in his Miami office. Steil is shocked. Jenny is a former fashion model, and Steil worked for Jenny’s father for many years until his death. Determined to rescue her, Steil turns for help to a colleague, who enlists the aid of two Israeli agents. Together, they formulate a devious, watertight plan to get a ransom to Toronto and Jenny home. But nothing and no one is as it seems... |
Hardcover McClelland & Stewart ISBN: 978-0-7710-4659-9 February 2009 $29.95
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Rick Mofina, Six Seconds (a stand-alone global thriller) A California mother's anguished search for her abducted son and a haunted Mountie's investigation into an American reporter's mysterious death in the Canadian Rockies uncover a global plot to assassinate the Pope…using the woman's boy as the weapon. "Six Seconds should be Rick Mofina's breakout thriller. It moves like a tornado." – James Patterson, #1 New York Times bestselling author "Echoing Ludlum and Forsythe...(a) big international thriller that grabs your gut – and your heart – and never lets go." – Jeffrey Deaver, New York Times bestselling author "Everything we need from a great thriller." – Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author |
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Robert Rotenberg, Old City Hall
Old City Hall opens with Canada’s leading radio show host, Kevin Brace, coming to the door of his luxury condominium with his hands covered in blood and telling the newspaper delivery man: “I killed her.” The “her” in question is his young wife, whose stabbed body lies in the bathtub of their suite. These are the last words Brace will speak. In what appears to be a watertight case of the murder of his young wife, he makes no attempt to explain or justify her killing .But are things as straightforward as they seem? A legal thriller that brilliantly recreates the growing tension of a major murder investigation, Old City Hall is populated by a wonderful cast of characters, and what begins as a seemingly open-and-shut case soon develops into a fascinating, intricately plotted web of lies and hidden motives, punctuated by genuine heroism. |
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Phyllis Smallman, Margarita Nights: A Sherri Travis Mystery |
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Jon Wells, Post-Mortem: Justice at Last for Yvette Budram In April 2001, a jogger on a country road notices something off in a ditch. Bones? Hair? It is a human skeleton. The jogger phones 911, and homicide investigators from the police service in Hamilton, Ontario, report to the scene, setting in motion an incredible investigation, a “true CSI story” in which detectives must first find the victim before they can find the killer. The near-mummified remains are that of a woman, but police have nothing else to go on – no weapon, no crime scene. They enlist the help of experts, including a forensic anthropologist and forensic entomologist (known as “the Bug Lady”). When a cutting-edge forensic procedures allows the police to crack the mystery of the victim’s identity, the chase heats up...with a twist. |
Trade paperback John Wiley and Sons Canada ISBN: 978-0-470-15547-9 March 2009 $19.95 |
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Older releases by new CWC members And now some books published in 2008 by authors |
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Stewart Bell, Bayou of Pigs: The True Story of an Audacious Plot To Turn a Tropical Island into a Criminal Paradise A heavily-armed mercenary force would invade a Caribbean island, install a puppet prime minister, and turn the country into a tropical haven for criminals. In Bayou of Pigs, award-winning journalist Stewart Bell tells the strange true story of how Canadian and American white supremacists teamed up with the mob and soldiers of fortune to overthrow the government of Dominica. They were going to steal a country. All that stood in their way were two federal agents on the case of their lives. |
Hardcover John Wiley and Sons Canada ISBN: 978-0-470-15382-6 August 2008 $24.95 |
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Nadine Doolittle, Iced Under
Raw from a painful divorce, Sara Wolesley exiles herself and her two daughters to a dilapidated cottage on Hennessy Lake in West Quebec. The cold, the isolation, and money pressure bring her close to a breakdown. Her failures piling up, Sara escapes to the lake where she discovers a child under the ice: seven-year-old Oralee Pelletier who has been missing for five months. “…a compulsive read.” – Roberta Bouchard, Solstice Books “…(the) book had me up, ripping through pages to get to the end…I was riveted from the first page.” – Nikki Mantell, The Low Down to Hull and Back News |
Trade paperback Bayeux Arts/Gondolier Inc. ISBN: 978-1-897411-04-9 November 2008 $21.95 |
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Jerry Langton, Rage: The True Story of a Sibling Murder Sibling violence may be as old as time, but this case is particularly disturbing and unsettling. |
Trade paperback John Wiley and Sons Canada ISBN: 978-0-470-15441-0 April 2008 $26.95 |
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Gil Waugh, Evening Song (Òran Feasgair): A Karen Simpson Mystery "You'll no longer think of Canada as a prosaic place after reading Gil Waugh's tale of a magical Ottawa. His story mixes the metaphysical and the mysterious, the human and the transcendent, in a fascinating and compelling blend." – Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo and Nebula Award winner |
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Gil Waugh, Mind Surfing: A Karen Simpson Mystery
A botched surveillance during a drug bust in an abandoned bowling alley leads Karen Simpson, a young Ottawa Police officer to an encounter that changes her life forever. "A wonderful adventure that stimulates the mind and soul...I could not put Mind Surfing down as one chapter leaped into the next in an intriguing maze that culminated in a look into my soul. Mind Surfing changed me!" – Robin Brown, B.Sc. (Chemical Engineer) |
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Jon Wells, Poison: From Steeltown to the Punjab, The True Story of a Serial Killer One of six book-length stories published in the Hamilton Spectator, Poison is a riveting piece of crime reporting that won a National Newspaper Award in 2004. Chronicling the life and crimes of serial murderer Sukhwinder Dhillon, who coolly dispatched two wives, two twin infants, and a friend just for insurance money, Poison details the trail that stretched from Canada to India, the work of the insurance claims investigator and the detectives who suspected wrong-doing, the forensics that sealed Dhillon's fate, and the legal twists and turns of the double murder trial that followed. |
Trade paperback John Wiley and Sons Canada ISBN: 978-0-470-15548-6 August 2008 $19.95 |
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Jon Wells, Sniper: The True Story of Anti-Abortion Killer James Kopp An award-winning journalist covers the life story – and three-year manhunt – for one of the FBI's most wanted killers. While ultimately convicted of the 1998 murder of Dr. Bernard Slepian in Buffalo, NY, it was the shooting in Canada, three years earlier, of another abortion doctor that brought then-unknown James Kopp instant notoriety as a criminal suspect. Part detective story, part psychological drama, Sniper tells the fascinating, often harrowing story of how the Canadian police and FBI eventually caught Kopp after an intense three-year international search. The book also sheds light on how this son of a Marine, an avowed celibate with loyalties only to the fetus, became an anti-abortion radical and finally a killer in the name of human life. |
Trade paperback John Wiley and Sons Canada ISBN: 978-0-470-15546-2 April 2008 $19.95 |
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