Private Investigator Mysteries

Belle Palmer Mystery

First book: Northern winters are murder

by Lou Allin

Another freezing winter descends in seeming peace upon the Northern Ontario lake where realtor Belle Palmer lives genteelly with her dog, tropical ...

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Benny Cooperman

First book: Suicide Murders

by Howard Engel

When Myrna Yates visits private investigator Benny Cooperman to look into her husband Chester’s suspected infidelity, what begins as a routine ca...

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Cherry Mills Mystery

First book: Every Move They Make

by Lee Gabel

Raising teenagers is hard: a constant tug-of-war between respecting boundaries and encouraging independence. But what happens when your teenager do...

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Lake Pines Mystery

First book: Murder at First Light

by L.L. Abbott

A regatta at dawn turns deadly when a body is discovered, sending shockwaves through the quiet town of Lake Pines. As secrets ripple beneath the su...

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Paradise Cafe

First book: Heat Wave

by Maureen Jennings

It's July 1936 and Toronto is under a record-breaking heat wave. Charlotte Frayne is the junior associate in a two-person private investigation fir...

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Rosalind Mystery

First book: Foul Deeds

by Linda Moore

A professional criminologist, Rosalind works with a cranky private investigator named McBride—a long-time association that has led her from one s...

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Russell Quant Mystery

First book: Amuse Bouche

by Anthony Bidulka

A wedding gone bad. One groom is missing, the other becomes a suspicious client. Enter Russell Quant, the first and only wine-swilling, wise-cracki...

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Verona Montero

First book: Alibi By Accident

by Kayleigh Suggett

Verona Montero loves calling herself a private dick because it makes her sound like she’s in a 1940s detective movie. And she gets to say “dick...

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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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Murder on the Oldman

Stand-alone

by Scott Charlton Paul

In the hottest spring on record, Lethbridge's coulees are parched and tempers are rising. When a prominent rancher is murdered, private investigato...

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Lower City

Stand-alone

by Alex Spring

In 2025, Hamilton, Ontario is plagued by abductions orchestrated by criminals seeking to form a “perfect family.” Danny Clarke, a young steelwo...

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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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The Dead Letter

Stand-alone

by Finley Martin

In 2001, a Canadian police constable murders his girlfriend in a fit of jealous rage. When he realizes what he's done, he manages to construct an e...

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The Reluctant Detective

Stand-alone

by Finley Martin

A young widow, orphan and mother, Wilhelmina Anne Brown is just beginning to find some stability in her new home in Prince Edward Island when she i...

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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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Dunk River Murders

Stand-alone

by Katie Mac

Maggie, a mediocre angler, is escaping burnout by way of fly fishing. When dead bodies start popping up in her river, she feels compelled to solve ...

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Killings at Little Rose

Stand-alone

by Finley Martin

Private investigator Anne Brown works undercover at a seafood plant plagued by vandalism, loss, and bad luck. Meanwhile,residents of Little Rose Ha...

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