Noir Mysteries

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...

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Inspector Coswell Mystery

First book: Murder in the Monashees

by Roy Innes

RCMP Corporal Paul Blakemore is jolted from his mundane policing duties in the small Monashee Mountain village of Bear Creek by the discovery of a ...

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Michael Shelter

First book: Omand's Creek

by Don MacDonald

A young woman has been brutally murdered, her body left on the banks of Omand's Creek. Similarities with the murder a month earlier lead Detective ...

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Ottawa Detective

First book: A Striking Similarity

by Kevin Hopkins

Detective Terry Millar doesn't believe in coincidences. As a criminal profiler, he's built his reputation on identifying patterns and perpetrators....

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Sebastian Synard Mysteries

First book: One For the Rock

by Kevin Major

Sebastian Synard doesn’t want any more trouble than he already has. But when he leads a group of tourists along the cliffs of St. John's harbour,...

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Wakeland

First book: Invisible Dead

by Sam Weibe

Chelsea Loam vanished eleven years ago. When Vancouver PI Dave Wakeland is hired to find what happened to the missing woman, he soon uncovers a tra...

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False Bodies

Stand-alone

by J.R. McCovey

False Bodies follows monster hunter Eddie “The Yeti” Gesner to Newfoundland, to investigate a mass death on an offshore oil rig―which some sa...

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Last of the Independents

Stand-alone

by Sam Weibe

Twenty-nine-year-old Michael Drayton runs a private investigation agency in Vancouver that specializes in missing persons. Only, as Mike has discov...

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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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Traitor's Game

Stand-alone

by Stephen Kimber

It is the summer of 1940 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, a city that has become a bustling strategic port for the war raging in Europe. In a wealthy South...

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The Light of Faded Stars

Stand-alone

by Francis-Adrien Morneault

On his deathbed, an old detective and veteran from war, Jack Willington, in the city of Saint John, New Brunswick, is reflecting on his life and te...

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Road to Heaven

Stand-alone

by Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson

Patrick Bird, police academy burnout turned PI, works divorce cases, using his camera to catch the unfaithful and the lonely looking for love in re...

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Tumblin' Dice

Stand-alone

by John McFetridge

The High, a band with a few hit songs in the late 1970s, have reunited to play the nostalgia circuit at casinos. But for bassist Barry and lead sin...

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