With a cast of quirky Maritime characters, Gasper’s Cove is a fast-paced cozy mystery series set in a fictitious town on the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia. Each book can be read as a stand-alone and revolves around Valerie Rankin, who runs a Crafter’s Co-op on the second floor of the Rankin General store, a …
Bind is the first book in donalee Moulton’s new cozy mystery series, Lotus Detective. Kristi Yee is part-owner of Vitality+, a gym overlooking the Bedford Basin in Halifax. Inside the gym is the Asana Yoga Studio, where she holds yoga classes. Her business partner, Jaxx Taylor, runs the gym and handles the finances, while Kristi …
Now he is just days from graduation, and things are once again going off-kilter. Alex has noticed an increase in patients coming into the hospital who are victims of violent episodes.
The 16th annual World Read Aloud Day is Wednesday, February 4th. It is a day that highlights the importance of sharing stories and reading them aloud.
Set in Nova Scotia’s writing community, it features Val Jenkins, a journalist for the Halifax Post, who has been writing the “local books” column for more than a decade, but she would rather be covering the crime beat.
“Every woman has value, and we deserve to have our murders investigated and solved and our killers locked away.” – Sister Pius
Here are our best nonfiction titles of the year, chosen by our contributors!
It’s the end of 2025 already, and so the “Best of” lists are surfacing! Here are some of TMR’s Best fiction of the year, chosen by our dedicated team of contributors.
Below, we’ve put together a list of Palestinian books reviewed on TMR. What are you reading this week?
Through an unusual combination of circumstances, Ryan Treiber, a lecturer at Saint Mary’s University, is thrown back in time to the founding of Halifax in 1749, 275 years ago. Found by Aubrey De Courcy, a member of Governor Edward Conrwallis’ council, Ryan stays in a camp clearing that is to become Halifax’s Grand Parade.
Successfully balance(s) sweet romance vibes with the oftentimes humorous situations that mature people often face in the dating game.
This story about friendship and the spirit of the holidays will bring joy to those who read it this coming holiday season.
Lesley Crewe’s The Spirit of Scatarie (pronounced Sca-tah-ree) is a well-written, fictional story about the real island of Scatarie, just off the northeastern tip of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, and is told from the point of view of a spirit or ghost.
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