Indigenous Mysteries

Edie Kiglatuk

First book: White heat

by M. J. McGrath

Half Inuit and half outsider, Edie Kiglatuk is the best guide in her corner of the Arctic. But as a woman, she gets only grudging respect from the ...

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Inspector Matteesie

First book: Murder in a cold climate

by Scott Young

When the mysterious connections between the disappearance of a small plane and the murder of a Native-rights activist are revealed, Inuit police in...

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Meg Harris Mystery

First book: Death's golden whisper

by R. J. Harlick

In the remote wilderness of West Quebec, where trees outnumber people a million to one and lakes a thousand to one, Death’s Golden Whisper opens ...

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Stonechild and Rouleau Mystery

First book: Cold Mourning

by Brenda Chapman

Officer Kala Stonechild, who has left her Northern Ontario detachment to join a specialized Ottawa crime unit, is tasked with returning Underwood h...

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Belle Palmer Mystery

First book: Blackflies are murder

by Lou Allin

In the sequel to Northern Winters Are Murder, it’s now high summer in Northern Ontario, where everyone is bear bait, even the bears. Gunshots cha...

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Ottawa Detective

First book: Reserved For Murder

by Kevin Hopkins

Everyone has a secret. And some people will go to any length to keep theirs. When the body of a teenage boy is found hanging from a homemade ...

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Dr. Zol Szabo Medical Mystery

First book: Up in smoke

by Ross Pennie

Epidemic investigator Dr. Zol Szabo and his team are called to a panic’stricken high school in the heart of Ontario’s tobacco country, where te...

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John Cardinal and Lise Delorme

First book: Blackfly Season

by Giles Blunt

According to detective John Cardinal, the truly diabolical thing about blackflies is their stealthy silence; there is no warning and no chance to m...

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Arthur Beauchamp

First book: I'll See You in My Dreams

by William Deverell

Arthur Beauchamp, after a successful and much-lauded career at the criminal bar, is now retired to Garibaldi Island. His immediate desire is to win...

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Lane Winslow Mystery

First book: Framed in Fire

by Iona Whishaw

It’s early spring 1948 and Lane arrives in New Denver to find that her friend, Peter Barisoff, is not at home. Instead, in a nearby meadow, she e...

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Disposable Souls

Stand-alone

by Phonse Jessome

The body of Pastor Sandy Gardner, a TV preacher with a global following, turns up near a Halifax container pier. The mysterious case lands with Cam...

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A Minor Chorus

Stand-alone

by Billy-Ray Belcourt

An unnamed narrator abandons his unfinished thesis and returns to northern Alberta in search of what eludes him: the shape of the novel he yearns t...

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