Mysteries Set in Nova Scotia

Gasper's Cove Mystery

First book: Crafting for Murder

by Barbara Emodi

Valerie Rankin, a seamstress and empty-nester, is determined to put Gasper’s Cove, Nova Scotia on the map by opening a crafter’s co-op. However...

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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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Cape Breton Mystery

First book: Garden Girl

by Renny de Groot

Gordie MacLean, a 53-year-old bachelor detective is content minding his own patch of Cape Breton Island with its rugged coastal landscape and low c...

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Collins-Burke Mystery

First book: Sign of the cross

by Anne Emery

Be careful what you wish for, his mother used to say. Yet how many times, in his twenty years defending the underprivileged, has Monty Collins wish...

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Camilla McPhee Mystery

First book: Little Boy Blues

by Mary Jane Maffini

In the third Camilla MacPhee Mystery, Camilla’s looking forward to cutting loose at Ottawa’s Bluesfest, the huge open-air extravaganza, and to ...

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Tom & Liz Austen Mysteries

First book: Ghost of Lunenburg Manor

by Eric Wilson

A supposed haunting draws Tom and Liz to a historic Nova Scotia manor. As eerie events escalate, the siblings uncover a plot that uses superstition...

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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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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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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...

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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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Searching for Terry Punchout

Stand-alone

by Tyler Hellard

Adam Macallister's sportswriting career is about to end before it begins, but he's got one last shot--a Sports Illustrated profile about hockey's m...

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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...

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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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