Police Procedural Mysteries

Cape Breton Mystery

First book: Garden Girl

by Renny de Groot

Gordie MacLean, a 53-year-old bachelor detective is content minding his own patch of Cape Breton Island with its rugged coastal landscape and low c...

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Chad Hobbes Historical Crimes

First book: Devil's Making

by Seán Haldane

In the ramshackle capital of one of the last colonies in North America, a few thousand settlers aspire to the values of the Victorian age while coe...

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Charlie Salter

First book: The night the gods smiled

by Eric Wright

Inspector Charlie Salter, a detective with the Toronto Police Department, is assigned to solve the murder of Professor David Summers, an English pr...

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Chief Inspector Gamache

First book: Still life

by Louise Penny

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a suspicious death in a rural vi...

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Constable Molly Smith Mystery

First book: In the Shadow of the Glacier

by Vicki Delany

Trouble is brewing in the small, bucolic mountain town of Trafalgar, British Columbia. An American who came to Trafalgar as a Vietnam War draft dod...

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Gabe Garshowitz

First book: Unlikely Victims

by Alvin Abram

The author’s debut mystery introduces Toronto homicide detective Gabe Garshowitz. Nominated for the 2002 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel,...

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Hazel Micallef

First book: The calling

by Inger Ash Wolfe

Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef has lived all her days in the small town of Port Dundas and is now making her way toward retirement with somethi...

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Holly Martin Mystery

First book: And on the Surface Die

by Lou Allin

RCMP Corporal Holly Martin takes charge of her first post, a detachment in tiny Fossil Bay on the wild south coast of Vancouver Island. Drunk drive...

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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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Inspector Green Mystery

First book: Do or die

by Barbara Fradkin

Ottawa homicide inspector Michael Green is absolutely obsessed with his job, a condition which has almost ruined his marriage several times. When t...

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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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Jack Taggart Mystery

First book: Loose Ends

by Don Easton

Jack Taggart, an undercover Mountie, lives in a world where the good guys and the bad guys change places in a heartbeat. Taggart is very good at wh...

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John Cardinal and Lise Delorme

First book: Forty Words for Sorrow

by Giles Blunt

In the quiet Canadian town of Algonquin Bay, a frozen body has been found in an abandoned mine shaft. She is soon identified as Katie Pine, a teena...

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Madoc and Janet Rhys Mystery

First book: A Pint of Murder

by Charlotte MacLeod

In a quiet small town in New Brunswick, old Agatha Treadway makes one last cranky complaint to her niece before dying on her kitchen floor. The cau...

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Murdoch Mysteries

First book: Except the Dying

by Maureen Jennings

In the cold Toronto winter of 1895, the unclad body of a young woman is found naked and frozen in a quiet laneway. Acting Detective William Murdoch...

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Operation Series

First book: Operation Wormwood

by Helen C. Escott

An elderly man is carried into the emergency department of the Health Sciences Centre in St. John s, setting off a chain of events that leaves doct...

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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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Reid Bennett Mystery

First book: Dead in the Water

by Ted Wood

After his life was destroyed because of his efforts to prevent a rape, Reid Bennett relocated to Murphy's Harbor, a quaint little town in Canada. B...

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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...

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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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Willows and Parker Mystery

First book: The Goldfish Bowl

by Lawrence Gough

"The Goldfish Bowl" by Laurence Gough is the first book in the Willows and Parker mystery series. The story follows Detective Jack Willows and his ...

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Temperance Brennan

First book: Death du Jour

by Kathy Reichs

Tempe investigates the charred remains of a nun in Montreal, uncovering links to deaths at a remote Quebec monastery. The case expands into a cross...

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The Shores Mystery

First book: Mind Over Mussels

by Hilary MacLeod

Nothing big ever happens in The Shores. Ceilidhs, yes. Killings, no. That all changes when amateur sleuth, Hy McAllister trips over a body on th...

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Wakeland

First book: The Last Exile

by Sam Weibe

Maggie Zito is being held for murder. The volatile single mother is accused of killing the retired leader of the notorious Exiles motorcycle gang a...

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Bean Fate

Stand-alone

by James Arnett

A shocking Prohibition-era murder in a dusty Saskatchewan border town inflames the public’s suspicions about links between the politicians and Al...

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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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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...

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Death on Darby's Island

Stand-alone

by Alice Walsh

Nothing exciting ever happens on Darby's Island, Newfoundland. That is until one summer afternoon in 1975 when a Chevy towing a trailer drives off ...

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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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Yesterday's Lies

Stand-alone

by Jan Field

A chilling murder, a web of lies, and a legacy that won't stay buried. When RCMP officer Matt Brennan inherits Lonely Lake Lodge, he expects a brie...

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Darkness at the Stroke of Noon

Stand-alone

by Dennis Murphy

RCMP Sergeant Booker Kennison knows more dirt than an officer should and has been exiled by his superiors to duty in Yellowknife. When a flash fire...

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Let it ride

Stand-alone

by John McFetridge

Vernard ‘Get’ McGetty is back from serving in Afghanistan, back dealing drugs in Detroit and looking to move up with his buddy JT, a guy he met...

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A Winter Kill

Stand-alone

by Vicki Delany

Nicole Patterson is a young, green and very eager probationary constable with the Ontario Provincial Police. Although she spends much of her time b...

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