Thriller 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...

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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...

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Edie Kiglatuk

First book: White heat

by M. J. McGrath

Half Inuit and half outsider, Edie Kiglatuk is the best guide in her corner of the Arctic. But as a woman, she gets only grudging respect from the ...

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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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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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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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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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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...

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The Apocalypse

First book: The Judas Legacy

by W.M. Leesman

Masada, AD 73. As the Roman X Legion closes in, the defenders of the ancient fortress make a final, desperate decision-hide a cache of powerful rel...

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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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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...

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Wakeland

First book: Cut You Down

by Sam Weibe

No one knows what happened to Tabitha Sorensen. The brilliant but troubled student seems to have vanished, leaving a deadly trail of missing millio...

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Temperance Brennan

First book: Bone Hacker

by Kathy Reichs

Tempe is pulled into the investigation when she examines remains from a supposed lightning strike victim in Montreal. A tattoo — an octopus with ...

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Into the Fog

Stand-alone

by Michelle Godard-Richer

Ice fog descends upon Dickens, Alberta, growing thicker and thicker until Heidi Crawford can no longer see the coniferous forest and snow-capped mo...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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One Minute More

Stand-alone

by Robert Rotenberg

It’s a long-shot mission. No one thinks much of the information the Toronto chief of police receives from a mysterious source: a would-be assassi...

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The Hunt

Stand-alone

by Nick Wilkshire

Ben Matthews is less than thrilled when he is posted to Canada from Washington, but he doesn’t have time to sit in his disappointment. His diplom...

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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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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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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...

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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...

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Death and the Intern

Stand-alone

by Jeremy Hanson-Finger

Janwar Gupta, a brilliant but neurotic medical student intern, has a patient die under suspicious circumstances during his placement at the Ottawa ...

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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 ...

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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...

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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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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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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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