Suspense 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...

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...

Haven's Rock

First book: Murder at Haven's Rock

by Kelley Armstrong

Deep in the Yukon wilderness, a town is being built. A place for people to disappear, a fresh start from a life on the run. Haven’s Rock isn’t ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Rockton

First book: City of the Lost

by Kelley Armstrong

Casey Duncan is a homicide detective with a secret: when she was in college, she killed a man. She was never caught, but he was the grandson of a m...

Sam Klein Mystery

First book: The Blood Libel

by Allan Levine

Sam Klein is a bouncer and guardian of local brothel who investigates the murder of a young girl. The number one suspect, who is charged with the m...

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,...

Small-Town Saskatchewan Mystery

First book: Crooked Lake

by Nelson Brunanski

Easygoing Bart Bartowski doesn't like to stick his nose where it don't belong, but finds himself doing just that when his best friend is arrested f...

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...

Temperance Brennan

First book: Deja Dead

by Kathy Reichs

When a female corpse is discovered meticulously dismembered and stashed in trash bags, Temperance detects an alarming pattern and she plunges into ...

The Falls Mystery

First book: When the flood falls

by J. E. Barnard

With her career in tatters and her marriage receding in the rear-view mirror, ex-RCMP corporal Lacey McCrae trades her uniform for a tool belt, and...

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...

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 ...

Nadine Lavoie

First book: Never knowing

by Chevy Stevens

At thirty-three Sara Gallagher is finally happy. Her antique furniture restoration business is taking off and she’s engaged to a wonderful man. B...

Rosalind Mystery

First book: The Fundy Vault

by Linda Moore

Linda Moore's long­awaited sequel to Foul Deeds is another highly engaging mix of art and environmental justice. Finally working a real job as a r...

Stonechild and Rouleau Mystery

First book: Butterfly Kills

by Brenda Chapman

Jacques Rouleau has moved to Kingston to look after his father and take up the position of head of the town’s Criminal Investigations Division. O...

Madoc and Janet Rhys Mystery

First book: A Dismal Thing to Do

by Charlotte MacLeod

In Charlotte MacLeod’s A Dismal Thing to Do, Janet Rhys is thrust into a fight for survival after witnessing a truck crash in the Canadian wilder...

Meg Harris Mystery

First book: The River Runs Orange

by R. J. Harlick

In the third action-packed thriller of the West Quebec series, Meg Harris is back more determined than ever to fight against injustice, but sometim...

Cape Breton Mystery

First book: Night rose

by Renny de Groot

As a new crime unfolds, Detective Gordie MacLean finds himself drawn into a web of intrigue that will not only test his skills but also change his ...

Charlie Salter

First book: A Body Surrounded by Water

by Eric Wright

While vacationing with his family on Prince Edward Island, Toronto Detective Inspector Charlie Salter finds himself assisting local police in a mur...

Death in the age of steam

Stand-alone

by Mel Bradshaw

Toronto in 1856 is industrializing with little time for scruple or sentiment. When Reform politician William Sheridan dies suddenly and his daughte...

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...

Xavier Bradshaw: Ghostwriter

Stand-alone

by W.M. Leesman

Twenty years ago, Livingston, Alberta, was shaken by a series of unsolved, unconnected brutal murders. Now, a city councillor is found crucified...

Broken Steps

Stand-alone

by J.E. Friend

For Amelia Jonas, life as she knew it changed forever in the blink of an eye. An event that shattered her world; the worst part, she had no memory ...

All June Left Behind

Stand-alone

by Karen Grose

Ray had it all—a loving relationship with his wife June, a busy farm, and two beautiful grown children. Until the night June was shot on their fo...

Wicked Ninnish

Stand-alone

by Michael Scott Curnes

Into a tenuous calm left behind by the War in the Woods-which pitted environmentalists against loggers, and resulted in the largest mass arrest in ...

The Crane

Stand-alone

by Monica Kidd

It’s 1968 and James Anderson’s twin brother Dave has just been killed in the Vietnam war. Knowing his turn is next, James turns his back on his...

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...

Strange Things Done

Stand-alone

by Elle Wild

As winter closes in and the roads snow over in Dawson City, Yukon, newly arrived journalist Jo Silver investigates the dubious suicide of a local p...

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...

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...

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...

Pirate Rock

Stand-alone

by David Harry Walker

The story follows two teenage boys who are unexpectedly drawn into a web of espionage and moral dilemmas. They find themselves working for a man wh...

You Were Never Here

Stand-alone

by Kathleen Peacock

Cat hasn’t been to Montgomery Falls, the town her family founded, since she was twelve years old. Since the summer she discovered she could do th...

Canadian Assassin

Stand-alone

by Ethan Jones

When an act of treason leaves Justin and his Arctic team stranded on the ice, they must fight for survival in a deadly battle at the top of the wor...

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...

Venom Lake

Stand-alone

by Emma White

On a weekend getaway for their true-crime book club, four women retreat to the sole cottage on isolated Snakebite Island. But what was supposed to ...

The Judas conspiracy

Stand-alone

by John Bishop Ballem

The Judas Conspiracy by John Ballem is a political thriller set against the backdrop of an Alberta separatist movement. The story begins when Peter...

Off Season

Stand-alone

by Amber Cowie

While recovering from a professional setback, documentary filmmaker Jane Duvall stays at a remote hotel during the off season with her new contract...

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...

That Night

Stand-alone

by Chevy Stevens

As a teenager, Toni Murphy had a life full of typical adolescent complications: a boyfriend she adored, a younger sister she couldn't relate to, a ...

Still missing

Stand-alone

by Chevy Stevens

On the day she was abducted, Annie O’Sullivan, a 32-year-old realtor, had three goals - sell a house, forget about a recent argument with her mot...

Hitchhikers

Stand-alone

by Chevy Stevens

It’s the summer of 1976 and Alice and Tom set out on the remote Canadian highways in their new RV, hoping to heal their broken hearts after a dev...