Beneath Her Skin by C.S. Porter
Beneath Her Skin is a literary crime thriller from a mysterious new voice in Atlantic fiction.
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Excerpt: The Degrees of Barley Lick by Susan Flanagan
The following excerpt is from Chapter 17 of Susan Flanagan’s The Degrees of Barley Lick (for readers 12 and up).
Starr Sign by C.S. O’Cinneide
Candace Starr goes searching for her mother in the Detroit mob — but infiltrating her own crime family may be her deadliest assignment ever.
Season of Smoke by A.G. Pasquella
It looks like ex-con Jack Palace’s troubles will never end when he is pressured by the mob to kill one of his best friends. Jack Palace is trying to go legit with his own security company — but his old life keeps trying to pull him back in.
Scorpion Scheme by Melissa Yi
Montreal’s Dr. Hope Sze fights to save a man caught in a Cairo bomb blast. The man may hold the key to the Kruger Millions, a rumoured fortune in buried gold.
Operation Wormwood: The Reckoning by Helen C. Escott
The long-awaited sequel to Operation Wormwood (2018, Flanker Press), The Reckoning concludes the story of a disease that appears to only target pedophiles and is accredited to God by those of the Roman Catholic Church. I don’t think it is too much of a stretch to say that Helen C. Escott is Newfoundland’s premier crime-thriller …
Dark August by Katie Tallo
At the beginning of Dark August, 20-year-old Augusta “Gus” Monet learns that her great-grandmother Rose has died. The death of her only blood relative galvanizes Gus to take charge of her meandering life. She ditches her petty criminal boyfriend Lars and heads back to the small Ontario town where she spent part of her childhood. …
Messenger 93 by Barbara Radecki
Barbara Radecki’s sophomore novel, Messenger 93, opens with a flutter of information. A mind-bending conversation with a crow kicks off the absorbing thriller, and cryptic messages, hidden clues, and uncertain instructions become the norm in M, the narrator’s, life. M feels compelled to investigate the disappearance of a girl named Krista, and her movements over …
Access Point by Tom Gabbay
Wouldn’t we all want a second chance at life?When young American art student Mia Fraser is brutally murdered steps away from her London house she shares with computer genius Ula Mishkin, it leaves the socially inept scientist heartbroken.
