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.
It’s 1999, and Tim Brown is taking an unprecedented sabbatical from editing the South River Times to delve into the connections between his many communities: the newspaper, the church choir, the local diner, the Chamber of Commerce, even the Nova Scotia Legislature. His mix of canniness and naiveté – he inherited his job and rarely leaves South River – makes the character complex enough to keep readers engaged.
A Dark Death by Alice Fitzpatrick is the second in the Meredith Island Mystery series.
Once Elspeth arrives on Sulla, she encounters a colourful cast of characters who have as many opinions as secrets.
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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Each book in Nova Scotia author Barbara Emodi’s Gasper Cove Cozy Mystery series can be read as a standalone novel, however, when they are read in order you will notice that some of the relationships between reoccurring characters evolve.
Too many secrets, too many lies-and now a missing husband.
A former antique hunter investigates the suspicious death of her estranged mentor at an isolated English manor and is drawn back into the dangerous world of repatriating stolen artifacts in this irresistible mystery debut.
Louise Carson’s latest cozy mystery is full of delectable desserts, fast friendships, and, of course, an abundance of cats.
The Last Unsuitable Man is a slow-burn thriller filled with twists that no one–least of all the victim–could see coming.
[dropcap]The [/dropcap]Sgt. Windflower Mystery series is a series of cozy mysteries set in the small Newfoundland town of Grand Bank where Sgt. Winston Windflower is the top cop in the RCMP detachment there. The latest instalment in the series, A Tangled Web (2017, Baico Publishing), has just been released. It begins innocuously enough: “Life doesn’t …
Chuck Bowie is the New Brunswick author of three novels, all in the “Sean Donovan: Thief for Hire” series. He has just released Book Three: “Steal it All“. Chuck took a few moments to answer my questions about his influences, where and when his Sean Donovan character was born, and how Book Four is coming …
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