Legal Mysteries

Arthur Beauchamp

First book: Trial of Passion

by William Deverell

Arthur Beauchamp, one of Vancouver’s most heralded criminal lawyers, has moved to a quiet island off the British Columbia coast. He’s trying to...

Camilla McPhee Mystery

First book: Speak ill of the dead

by Mary Jane Maffini

Camilla MacPhee is the black sheep of her perfect, blonde family, although she runs a law office specializing in Justice for Victims of violent cri...

Collins-Burke Mystery

First book: Sign of the cross

by Anne Emery

Be careful what you wish for, his mother used to say. Yet how many times, in his twenty years defending the underprivileged, has Monty Collins wish...

Detective Greene

First book: Old City Hall

by Robert Rotenberg

Kevin Brace, Canada’s most renowned radio personality, stands in his opulent condominium doorway, bloodied hands gripping the doorframe. He turn...

Ellis Portal Mysteries

First book: Free reign

by Rosemary Aubert

Ellis Portal had once been an esteemed judge. Now, he lives as a vagrant in the wilderness that runs through the heart of Toronto. One day, while w...

Steve Nastos Mystery

First book: Cherry Beach Express

by R. D. Cain

Until recently, Steve Nastos was a respected Toronto detective and a member of the sexual assault unit. Now he’s in custody, accused of killing h...

Mindfield

Stand-alone

by William Deverell

Mind Games

Stand-alone

by William Deverell

Dr. Tim Dare is a forensic psychiatrist whose life is in a mess: his wife has just left him to find herself; his mother is being sued for libel by ...

Needles

Stand-alone

by William Deverell

Lawyer Foster Cobb’s objective is to bring down the mysterious Dr. Au, responsible for the drugs that flow through Vancouver. But under the press...

The Dance of Shiva

Stand-alone

by William Deverell

Twenty members of a cult are found massacred on an isolated island on Canada’s West Coast. Their leader, Shiva Ram Acharya, is brought to trial, ...

High Crimes

Stand-alone

by William Deverell

In rugged, remote Newfoundland, a merry band of smugglers is carrying on a grand tradition, handed down over centuries. But the greatest of them al...

Street Legal: The Betrayal

Stand-alone

by William Deverell

This legal thriller follows the lives of three young, ambitious lawyers in 1980 as they are setting up their own practice. The fledgling firm is ro...

Last Lullaby

Stand-alone

by Alice Walsh

When Claire and Bram's only child dies suddenly, it at first appears to be a case of crib death. But when the real cause of death indicates homicid...

The Case Against Owen Williams

Stand-alone

by Allan Donaldson

Following a night at The Silver Dollar dance hall, a teenage girl turns up dead in a gravel pit. The last person reported to have seen her is Owen ...