Women Sleuths 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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Camilla McPhee Mystery

First book: Speak ill of the dead

by Mary Jane Maffini

Camilla MacPhee is the black sheep of her perfect, blonde family, although she runs a law office specializing in Justice for Victims of violent cri...

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Charley Scott Mystery

First book: Cover Art

by Vanessa Westermann

Charley Scott is thrilled to be running a summer pop-up gallery in cottage country. Returning to the lakeside village, not on vacation but as an ar...

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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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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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Detective Aunty Investigates

First book: Detective Aunty

by Uzma Jalaluddin

After her husband’s unexpected death twelve months earlier, Kausar Khan never thought she’d receive another phone call as heartbreaking—until...

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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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Fiona Silk Mystery

First book: Lament for a Lounge Lizard

by Mary Jane Maffini

As if it weren’t bad enough being a failed romance writer with no sex life, poor Fiona Silk has to cope with the spectacularly embarrassing demis...

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Glenmere Box Mysteries

First book: The Puzzle Box

by Lisa Adair

She's desperate to escape, but Glenmere has other plans.After the sudden death of her grandmother, sixteen-year-old Amy Young finds herself trapped...

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Grub-and-Stakers

First book: The Grub-And-Stakers Move a Mountain

by Charlotte MacLeod

Anyone growing up in Lobelia Falls is taught to learn the elegant, ancient, and occasionally deadly art of shooting with a bow and arrow. Practicin...

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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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Hygge House Nordic Mystery

First book: Hygge and Homicide

by A. L. Jensen

When talented interior designer Minna Halonen returns to her idyllic northern hometown after decades away, she's ready for a fresh start. Recently ...

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Kate Henry Mystery

First book: The dead pull hitter

by Alison Gordon

For the first time in their history, the Toronto Titans are on a winning streak and headed for the World Series—a dream come true for sports repo...

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Klondike Mystery

First book: Gold Digger

by Vicki Delany

It’s the spring of 1898, and Dawson, Yukon Territory, is the most exciting town in North America. The great Klondike Gold Rush is in full swing a...

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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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Lane Winslow Mystery

First book: Killer in King's Cove

by Iona Whishaw

It is 1946, and war-weary young ex-intelligence officer Lane Winslow leaves London to look for a fresh start. When she finds herself happily settle...

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Naya Investigates

First book: Journey of a Thousand Steps

by Madona Skaff-Koren

Naya had the perfect life. Co-owner of a fast growing security software company, she ran marathons in her spare time. Suddenly everything changed w...

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Quill & Packet Mystery

First book: Bury the Lead

by Elizabeth Renzetti, Kate Hilton

A big-city journalist joins the staff of a small-town paper in cottage country and finds a community full of secrets … and murder. Cat Conway ...

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Randy Craig Mystery

First book: Sticks and Stones

by Janice E. MacDonald

How dangerous can words be? The University of Alberta's English Department is caught up in a maelstrom of poison-pen letters, graffiti and misogyny...

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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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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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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 ...

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The Shores Mystery

First book: Revenge of the lobster lover

by Hilary MacLeod

It's lobster season at The Shores, a fishing village isolated from The Island in a storm surge. Parker, a collector of antiquities, has moved there...

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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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Meg Harris Mystery

First book: Red ice for a shroud

by R. J. Harlick

A young Québécoise sneaks off to meet her Algonquin lover in an isolated hunting camp on the Migiskan Reserve. Five days later, Meg Harris discov...

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Tom & Liz Austen Mysteries

First book: The Emily Carr mystery

by Eric Wilson

Liz investigates a mystery tied to the legacy of artist Emily Carr. Art theft, historical secrets, and West Coast atmosphere blend into a thoughtfu...

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A Killer Whisky

Stand-alone

by Susan Calder

The 1918 influenza pandemic strikes Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The Great War rages overseas. While her husband fights in Europe, Katharine works in ...

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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...

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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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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 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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On the Rocks

Stand-alone

by Sue Hallgarth

The year is 1929 and Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Willa Cather and her partner Edith Lewis are summering on Grand Manan, an island in the Bay of...

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Lies that Bind

Stand-alone

by Penelope Williams

Tulla Murphy's life has unraveled. Spurred by a loss that forces her to rethink all her plans, she retreats to the town where she grew up, even tho...

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City of the Muse

Stand-alone

by Kate Hilton

A gripping dual-timeline novel about the mysterious death of an indomitable female papyrologist during an archaeological dig in the early 1900s and...

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The Chambermaid's Key

Stand-alone

by Genevieve Graham

Set in 1929, Rosie Ryan dreams of escaping Toronto’s rough Ward neighborhood by securing a position as a chambermaid at the prestigious Dominion ...

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All Rise For Murder

Stand-alone

by Roz Nay

Maude Kirby has recently been dumped by her diplomat husband and has returned to her quirky hometown of West Elk, BC, to live with her ever-optimis...

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Blood Typed

Stand-alone

by Jane Doucet

Val Jenkins is stuck. A journalist for the Halifax Post, she's been writing a local books column for over a decade. But ever since she was a precoc...

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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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Moonrise Over Woolly Island

Stand-alone

by Trudi Johnson

In the rural community of Beacon, Newfoundland, Rebecca Blake's plans for her summer vacation are interrupted when she becomes intrigued by the fat...

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Taking Down Names

Stand-alone

by Bridget Canning

In the aftermath of her sister Mia’s untimely death, journalist Jacky Careen struggles to find meaning in both her life and her work reporting on...

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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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Voted Most Likely to Murder

Stand-alone

by Lacey Moone

Belinda Bishop is unemployed and single. At thirty-two, her journalism career feels stuck, and let’s not even speak about her love life, which is...

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Memo to Murder

Stand-alone

by Barbara Emodi

Heidi MacDonald is not qualified for her new job at the Legislature with Official Opposition. She has never voted, or can’t remember when. Her...

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Murder as a Fine Art

Stand-alone

by John Bishop Ballem

When artists, writers, and performers gather at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the serene mountain setting is meant to inspire creativity. However,...

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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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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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