Mysteries Set in Alberta

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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Senior Sleuth Series

First book: Horsing Around with Murder

by Maureen Fisher

After retiring from a long career in accounting, Abby Foster expects a peaceful life, but those plans vanish when she and her two sisters inherit a...

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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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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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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...

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Dylan Maples Adventure

First book: Bone Beds of the Badlands

by Shane Peacock

Bone Beds of the Badlands transports readers to the heart of dinosaur country in the most gripping and terrifying Dylan Maples Adventure yet! Dylan...

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The Screech Owls

First book: Danger in Dinosaur Valley

by Roy MacGregor

Summer has come early to the town of Drumheller, Alberta. The Screech Owls were expecting deep winter – just like back home – but when they arr...

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Tom & Liz Austen Mysteries

First book: Code red at the supermall

by Eric Wilson

When Tom and Liz Austen arrive at West Edmonton Mall with their father—who is helping train mall security—they’re expecting a fun trip. Inste...

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Temperance Brennan

First book: Bones Are Forever

by Kathy Reichs

Tempe begins the case in Montreal before traveling to the Northwest Territories and Alberta to track a missing woman and her children. The investig...

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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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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...

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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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A Minor Chorus

Stand-alone

by Billy-Ray Belcourt

An unnamed narrator abandons his unfinished thesis and returns to northern Alberta in search of what eludes him: the shape of the novel he yearns t...

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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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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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So Far So Close

Stand-alone

by Lee Gabel

His memories of her were always there… hidden but not forgotten. He only needed the key to unlock them. Now he has one week to find her. A cha...

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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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