Mysteries Set in British Columbia

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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Chad Hobbes Historical Crimes

First book: Devil's Making

by Seán Haldane

In the ramshackle capital of one of the last colonies in North America, a few thousand settlers aspire to the values of the Victorian age while coe...

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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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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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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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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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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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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...

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Inspector Coswell Mystery

First book: Murder in the Monashees

by Roy Innes

RCMP Corporal Paul Blakemore is jolted from his mundane policing duties in the small Monashee Mountain village of Bear Creek by the discovery of a ...

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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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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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Tom & Liz Austen Mysteries

First book: Vancouver nightmare

by Eric Wilson

When Tom witnesses a kidnapping, he’s pulled into a dangerous chase through Vancouver’s streets and waterfront. The city’s mix of glamour and...

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Canadian Chills

First book: Invasion of the IQ Snatchers

by Arthur Slade

Someone is delivering plates of scrumptious Nanaimo bars to every household in Nanaimo, and the people who eat them are behaving very strangely. Go...

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Dylan Maples Adventure

First book: Monster in the Mountains

by Shane Peacock

After Dylan Maples's terrifying adventure in Alberta, the holiday his "parental units" plan in British Columbia's Rocky Mountains seems like a drea...

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Madoc and Janet Rhys Mystery

First book: Trouble in the Brasses

by Charlotte MacLeod

Although he is a decorated officer of the Mounted Police, Madoc Rhys's tin ear has long been an embarrassment to his musically fixated family. But ...

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The Screech Owls

First book: The West Coast murders

by Roy MacGregor

The Screech Owls’ journey to Vancouver had begun as an innocent hockey road trip. They had come to play in the new “3-on-3” shinny tournament...

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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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Body in the Back Garden

Stand-alone

by Mark Waddell

Crescent Cove, a small hamlet on Vancouver Island, is the last place out-of-work investigative journalist Luke Tremblay ever wanted to see again. H...

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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, ...

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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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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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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...

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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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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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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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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 ...

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