After reviewing Jade Wallace’s poetry book Love is a Place But You Cannot Live There, I was hoping to see a sort of poetic influence reflected in this novel and it delivered. Wallace proves to be skilled in multiple genres and is a natural storyteller in all of them.
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. …
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.
Graeme Macrae Burnet’s A Case of Matricide is a beautifully written noir novel.
A brilliant novel that ensured I would read anything Tom Ryan decides to write.
Set in 1962 and 1963, this tale starts and ends on a bridge, literally and metaphorically.
A Pocket Full of Blood by Deanna Foster happens just over a year after her first in the series, Fortunes of Madness, when Detective Fox and Officer Vihaan teamed up to investigate the Tarot Killer. In this second book, Vihaan’s brother, Shikar, has escaped Wolfbridge Asylum after being a resident of the top floor for the criminally insane for five years.
Canadian detective fiction is a genre that punches well above its weight
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The idea that anyone could be the killer is at the centre of To Our Graves, the newest novel from Paul Nicholas Mason.
A gripping story of deceit and revenge, coupled with a compelling lesson on the resilience of friendship. Someone in the Attic is a gripping story of deceit and revenge, coupled with a compelling lesson on the resilience of friendship. In her new novel, author Andrea Mara explores relationships, complexities of child-rearing, long-term guilt, and the …
The daughter finds her mother’s notebook, sewn into her pillow, and begins to investigate a figure from her revolutionary past: a man named Paul Polotsky, who lived in Paris in the 1950s. Back in Paris, she manages to track him down and begins to follow him, her life narrowing on this sole focus. What, exactly, was the relationship between her mother and Polotsky?
A fantastic look at a private investigator life. Filled with mishaps and mayhem, this road to heaven is certainly littered with good intentions, and creative inventions of stories, history, and glimpses of character.
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