The prose flowing from the pseudonymous pen of Booker Prize-winning novelist John Banville is as compelling as always. VENGEANCE is a riveting read!
For all those of you who left the pages of Dana Stabenow’s Kate Shugak series with frostbite on your fingers and a yen for more, let me take you further into the cold, and then further still, deep into the Arctic tundra of M. J. MCGRATH’s Edie Kiglatuk mysteries..
The consistently surprising and insightful series by Lisa Lutz is a bittersweet combination of soul-searching and scheming.
The plot of TIGERS IN RED WEATHER is complex and multi-faceted, filled with twists and turns that slowly reveal character flaws and culminate in an unexpected conclusion.
If vampires and the mere mention of blood-play set your heart racing, then BLOOD WILL OUT by Ontario author Jill Downie is the perfect book to take with you for dockside reading.
Rebus has never been good at sticking to the rules, and Rankin adeptly shows the nuances between saint and sinner in this intelligent and complex novel.
You can’t go wrong with any of the books in the Flavia de Luce series by Toronto author, Alan Bradley.
The crimes are peculiar and the investigative techniques are innovative.
These twisted tales offer entertainment to suit your every whim or perhaps, more appropriately, to suit the time of day.
Sleuth by Gail Bowen is filled with many valuable pieces of advice, especially about the planning process a writer goes through.
Levison skilfully depicts the nostalgia of summers spent by the lake, and juxtaposes this with the horror of murder. Drawing a connection between the recent crime and her family’s experiences in the Holocaust, *The Crate* is a sensitive portrayal of the effects of violence and the importance of remembrance.
Here’s to letting the characters take the lead! You never know what will happen.
The Dame Was Trouble is noir at its best - and the women are in charge.
I was impressed by Graff’s attention to detail during the police procedural scenes. The technicalities of crime scene investigation and forensics are well described, without delving into gruesome details, as fits the cozy genre.
In this addition to the series, Rozan takes on the theme of illegal immigration, through the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act that led to the rise in 'paper sons'.
A spunky protagonist with strong opinions and principals, Charlotte is not afraid to step in when someone needs help.
A BIAS FOR MURDER is a charming cozy, in which the amateur sleuths piece together the crime like the pattern of a quilt.
The Falls Mysteries series are small-town psychological thrillers set in Calgary, the center of Canada’s oil industry.
Just because I’m short doesn’t mean I’m weak. Just because I’m a woman doesn’t mean I can’t take care of myself.
Before they were legendary writers, Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë were detectors.
Bowen’s wonderful descriptions of the setting made it feel like I was on an African safari right alongside Georgie and Darcy.
10 must-read Canadian mysteries with chilling settings.
Holiday Gift Guide For Mystery Addicts - 11 mysteries set in bookstores and libraries.
The Mesdames of Mayhem are in perfect harmony In The Key of 13.
Elizabeth J. Duncan’s latest Penny Brannigan title ON DEADLY TIDES offers a lovely escape to Wales, amidst a cleverly plotted mystery, reminiscent of Agatha Christie.
Fill your Valentine's Day with romance, mystery and chocolate.
Fradkin evokes the prairie heat of the Alberta badlands in THE ANCIENT DEAD. When a human bone is discovered in a coulee, Amanda has to dig up the past to solve a thirty-year-old mystery. And plunges headlong into danger...
In the anthology MOONLIGHT AND MISADVENTURE, award-winning American and Canadian writers shed the glint of moonlight on mistakes, misdemeanors and murder and are sure to dazzle readers of short stories.
Ten must-read art themed mystery novels that combine paint splatter and blood splatter...
Julia Cameron's WRITE FOR LIFE is an encouraging companion for writers completing a first draft and especially useful for those tackling NaNoWriMo.
