Yellow Barks Spider by Harman Burns

There’s palpable tension in the spare opening pages of Yellow Barks Spider, a debut novella by Vancouver-based Saskatchewan transplant Harman Burns. Even before the story begins, a dedication—“for ██████ wherever you are” —draws any curious eye. A technique Burns revisits later, redaction—with its there/not there visibility—prompts inevitable questions: what’s the masked name and the story behind …

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Too Close for Comfort (A Sgt. Windflower Mystery) by Mike Martin

A series of fires has lowered public confidence in the small Newfoundland town of Grand Bank where acting RCMP Inspector Winston Windflower is stationed. The most recent fire reveals the presence of a body in the kitchen—dead, not by smoke inhalation, but by multiple gunshot wounds. Thus the latest novel in the Mike Martin’s Sgt. …

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Cover of The Hitchcock Hotel by Stephanie Wrobel

The Hitchcock Hotel by Stephanie Wrobel

Seventeen years ago, something came between a group of university friends. This particular weekend though they are reunited as one of the group, Alfred, has bought an old house in their university town. He renovated it into The Hitchcock Hotel, a homage to his favourite director, which is now celebrating its first anniversary.