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Books by Release Month January Carolyn Arnold, The Little Grave, Bookouture Vicki Delany, A Curious Incident, Crooked Lane Books A.J. Fotheringham, Secrets at the Spa, Book 4 of The Lamb's Bay Mysteries, Amazon Sarah Fox, A Room with a Roux (A Pancake House Mystery #7), Kensington Lyrical Barbara Fradkin, The Ancient Dead, Dundurn Press Jim Koris, Human Trafficking, the Retribution, Austin Macauley Publishers USA Lorna Poplak, The Don: The Story of Toronto's Infamous Jail, Dundurn Byron TD Smith, Windfall: A Henry Lysyk Mystery, Shima Kun Press Alan R Warren, Zodiac Killer Interviews, House of Mystery

February Alice Bienia, Knight Trials, A. Bienia Victoria Hamilton, Double or Muffin, Beyond the Page Publishing Wendy Heuvel, Faith, Rope, and Love - Faith and Foils Cozy Mystery Series #4, Olde Crow Publishing Robert Rotenberg, Downfall, Simon & Schuster Alan R Warren, JFK Assassination: The Interviews, House of Mystery Alan R Warren, Jack the Ripper : The Interviews, House of Mystery

March Diane Bator, All That Shines, BWL Publishing Ltd. Richard Boyer, Murder 101, Friesen Press William Deverell, Stung, ECW Press RM Greenaway, Five Ways to Disappear, Dundurn Press Julie Hiner, Acid Track, KillersAndDemons.com John MacGougan, Secrets of the Innocent, Tellwell Talent C.S. O'Cinneide, Starr Sign: The Candace Starr Series, Dundurn Press Gloria Pearson-Vasey, The Hallowmas Train, Tellwell Talent Judy Penz Sheluk, Where There's A Will, ACX/Judy Penz Sheluk Chris Racknor, Hidden Variables, Yellow Brick Publishing House Chris Racknor, The First Five-Eighths, Yellow Brick Publishing House Chris Racknor, Perfect Twelve, Yellow Brick Publishing House Alan R Warren, Mysterious Celebrity Deaths: The Interviews, House of Mystery Linda Wiken writing as Essie Lang, A Deadly Chapter, Crooked Lane Books

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April Carolyn Arnold, Stolen Daughters, Bookouture Dwayne Clayden, Goddess of Justice, Bad Alibi Press Richard Cloutier, La pluie tombait et la débâcle s'est amorcée, Éditions Eucalytus S.M. Freedman, The Day She Died, Dundurn Press Arthur Haberman, Careless Justice, Viaduct Press Richard King, Banking on Life, Baraka Books Catherine McKenzie, Six Weeks to Live, Simon & Schuster Canada Barbara Monajem, Lady Rosamund and the Horned God, Level Best Books Phil Rowlands, Single Cell, Diamond Crime (Diamond Books) Phil Rowlands, Siena, Diamond Crime (Diamond Books) John Worsley Simpson, The Emerson Ruby Murder, Toller Lane Press

May Ginger Bolton, Beyond a Reasonable Donut, Kensington Publishing Corp. Raymond Cushing, Gottingen Street Gold, Independent A. J. Fotheringham, Dancing at Dove Lake, Book 5 of The Lamb's Bay Mysteries, Amazon Eva Gates, Deadly Ever After, Crooked Lane Books Sue Jaskula, All Fired Up, The Wild Rose Press Mike Martin, , Ottawa Press and Publishing Donna McDougall, Signs of the Fall, Kindle Hannah Mary McKinnon, You Will Remember Me, MIRA June Cathy Ace, The Corpse with the Iron Will, Four Tails Publishing Ltd. Raye Anderson, And Then is Heard No More, Signature Editions A. Bienia, D. Clayden, W. Kent, P. Kingsmill, Last Shot, Cairn Press Max Folsom, One Bad Day After Another, Friesen Press Dean Jobb, The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer, HarperCollins Canada Jonathan McCormick, Vancouver Secrets, Kindle Judy Penz Sheluk, Moonlight & Misadventure: 20 Stories of Mystery & Suspense, Superior Shores Press Garry Ryan, Catrinas, Pages Books on Kensington

July Gail Anderson-Dargatz, The Almost Wife, HarperCollins

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Hilary Davidson, Her Last Breath, Thomas & Mercer Vicki Delany, Murder in a Teacup, Kensington J.J. Dupuis, Lake Crescent, Dundurn Press Sue Jaskula, Unexpected Connection, The Wild Rose Press Judy Penz Sheluk, Skeletons in the Attic, WWL Mystery Anna Porter, Deceptions, ECW Jamie Tremain, Beholden to None, Independently Published Jamie Tremain, Lightning Strike, Independently Published Jamie Tremain, The Silk Shroud, Independently Published

August Susan Calder, Winter's Rage, BWL Publishing Inc Jen J. Danna, Shot Caller, Kensington Books

September Carolyn Arnold, The Silent Witness, Bookouture Gail Bowen, An Image in the Lake, ECW Press Vicki Delany, Deadly Summer Nights, Berkley Press Helen C. Escott, Operation Trafficked, Flanker Press

October Carolyn Arnold, One More Kill, Hibbert & Stiles Publishing Inc. Ginger Bolton, Deck the Donuts, Kensington Publishing Corp. Anna Dowdall, April on Paris Street, Guernica Editions

November Norm Boucher, Horseplay, My time on the Granville Strip, NeWest Press Jen J. Danna writing as Sara Driscoll, Under Pressure, Kensington Books

December No books to date.

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Cathy Ace The Corpse with the Iron Will Four Tails Publishing Ltd.

ISBN: 9781999223076 3 June 2021 Paperback $21.99 eBook $6.99

In the 10th Cait Morgan Mystery our globetrotting sleuth is faced with death almost literally on her doorstep, in moody, mountainous British Columbia. Her off-beat rural community comes under the microscope as murder strikes too close to home for comfort.

Gail Anderson-Dargatz The Almost Wife HarperCollins

ISBN: 9781443458429 6 July 2021 Paperback $24.99 eBook $13.99

Kira is engaged to the man of her dreams: he’s charming, handsome, wealthy, and a great dad to their baby, Evie, and his thirteen-year-old daughter, Olive. The only problem is Aaron’s ex-wife, Madison, who’s out of control and trying to get to Olive. When Kira takes the girls out of town to her childhood summer home and finds out that Madison has followed them, she panics.

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Raye Anderson And Then is Heard No More Signature Editions

ISBN: 9781773240886 18 June 2021 Paperback $17.95 eBook $9.95

Roxanne Calloway is drawn into Winnipeg's theatre scene when Gerald Blaise, Artistic Director of the Prairie Theatre Centre is found dead. He was about to rehearse 'Macbeth'. Has the play lived up to its notorious reputation? And in a world where fiction is fact, how can Roxanne uncover the truth?

Carolyn Arnold One More Kill Hibbert & Stiles Publishing Inc.

ISBN: 9781989706602 19 October 2021 Hardcover $31.99 Paperback $14.99 eBook $4.99

With the brutal murders of a husband and wife in small-town, rural Arkansas, the FBI links it to a serial killer who, up until now, has eluded the FBI. Special Agent Brandon Fisher and his team jet off for one purpose: to finally bring down the elusive killer who calls himself “the Leopard.”

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Carolyn Arnold Stolen Daughters Bookouture

ISBN: 9781800190191 6 April 2021 eBook $4.99

Firefighters discover the body of a teenage girl at an abandoned house, but it’s not long before Detective Amanda Steele concludes the killing is just getting started. As the victims pile up, she realizes they are connected to a past case that almost claimed her life.

Carolyn Arnold The Little Grave Bookouture

ISBN: 9781800190177 11 January 2021 Ebook: $3.99 Paperback: $14.99

It’s been five years since Detective Amanda Steele lost her family. The small community of Dumfries, Virginia, may have moved on from the tragic deaths of her husband and daughter, but Amanda cannot. When the man responsible is found murdered in a motel room, she can’t keep away from the case.

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Carolyn Arnold The Silent Witness Bookouture

ISBN: 9781800190214 24 September 2021 eBook $3.99

In this totally gripping and addictive crime thriller, Detective Amanda Steele investigates the murders of a local family and strives to protect the couple’s surviving six-year-old daughter Zoe who may have witnessed everything.

Diane Bator All That Shines BWL Publishing Ltd.

1 March 2021 Paperback $16.99 eBook $4.17

When Sage Miller’s sister Laken decides to host a fashion show as a grand opening for the new location of Vintage Sage, she’s not amused. Even less so when she discovers her sister hired a Hollywood fashion designer to help. Not only does the designer show up in the middle of renovations, but he drags along his protégé.

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Alice Bienia Knight Trials A. Bienia

ISBN: 9781777177966 25 February 2021 Paperback $22.98 eBook $4.99

Jorja Knight delves into a baffling murder case to help clear her best friend’s name from the suspect list. But when her investigation uncovers a dangerous plot about to unfold, she must decide whether to expose the truth and shatter more lives or keep what she’s found hidden.

A. Bienia, D. Clayden, W. Kent, P. Kingsmill Last Shot Cairn Press

ISBN: 9781990193002 2 June 2021 eBook $0.99

The characters in these four short stories show their true mettle when life presents them with a last shot, whether that be a final grasp at the golden ring, or a chance to protect someone or something they love.

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Ginger Bolton Beyond a Reasonable Donut Kensington Publishing Corp.

ISBN: 9781496725585 25 May 2021 Paperback $21.73 eBook $9.99

Emily discovers someone has broken into her assistant Nina's loft and vandalized one of Nina's paintings with a bucket of stolen sugar, now on the head of the victim. Emily would bet Nina was the intended victim, but the cops think Nina is the villain. Emily must catch the killer white- handed...

Ginger Bolton Deck the Donuts Kensington Publishing Corp.

ISBN: 9781496725608 26 October 2021 Paperback $21.73 eBook $9.99

A tour bus on its way to the Ice and Lights festival crashes and a snowstorm leaves the passengers stranded. Emily finds the driver's body under Emily's Frosty the Donut ice sculpture. The bus passengers show no sympathy for the man who dashed through the snow so badly, Emily is making a list...

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Norm Boucher Horseplay, My time undercover on the Granville Strip NeWest Press

ISBN: 9781988732985 15 November 2021 Paperback $21.95 eBook $11.99

Undercover operator Norm Boucher recounts eight months spent infiltrating the 1983 Vancouver heroin scene, a world of paranoia, ripoffs, and violence. This gripping memoir provides a compelling account of the human side of addiction colliding with the ruthlessness of crime.

Gail Bowen An Image in the Lake ECW Press

ISBN: 9781770416130 7 September 2021 Hardcover $34.95

When a charismatic young woman wearing a grief amulet enters the lives of Joanne and Zack Shreve, she brings with her a dark secret and the determination to destroy everything in her way.

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Richard Boyer Murder 101 Friesen Press

ISBN: 9781525584527 21 March 2021 Hardcover $30.49 Paperback $17.99 eBook $6.99

Honor trumps ambition in the cheeky mystery novel Murder 101, wherein a curious professor refuses to be stymied by university bureaucrats.

Susan Calder Winter's Rage BWL Publishing Inc

ISBN: 9780228617778 1 August 2021 Paperback $18.99 eBook $3.99

Calgary insurance adjuster Paula Savard investigates a hit-and-run collision that killed a pedestrian. Paula unearths secrets that convince her the incident was murder. The police make an arrest. Paula digs deeper, unaware she’s on a collision course with a killer consumed with vengeance and rage.

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Dwayne Clayden Goddess of Justice Bad Alibi Press

ISBN: 9781989912058 22 April 2021 Paperback $24.95 eBook $5.99

A series of unrelated deaths occur around the city. Detective Brad Coulter is investigating when more murders occur. It is clear that the killer has special forces military skills. Evidence points to Coulter as the murderer. He has to clear his name. The killer has other plans.

Richard Cloutier L'étreinte des naufrageurs Éditions Eucalyptus

ISBN: 9782981162434 2 August 2021 Paperback $19.95 eBook $9.95

Tandis qu’en filigrane, une série de meurtres qui pourrait être un féminicide tient les policiers en haleine, on s’accroche aux pas d’un jeune banquier poussé malgré lui à faire son chemin dans un système où les privilèges coûtent chers et qui, au final, broie les gens tout simplement.

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Richard Cloutier La pluie tombait et la débâcle s'est amorcée Éditions Eucalyptus

ISBN: 9782981162427 26 April 2021 Paperback $19.95 eBook $9.95

Dans ce roman, les décès se succèdent en marge d’une enquête pour fraude financière, alors que toute la région de la Vallée du Saint-Laurent est paralysée par une persistante pluie verglaçante et que la sécurité civile a déclenché son plan des mesures d’urgence.

Raymond Cushing Gottingen Street Gold Independent

ISBN13: 9798748742900 15 May 2021 Paperback $14.99 eBook $4.99

A crooked cop frames black community leader Jesse Johnson with possession of Gottingen Street Gold, an opioid. There is a sinister reason for the arrest. Johnson's friends vow to uncover it. A young runaway girl holds the key to exposing the truth if they can find her in time.

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Jen J. Danna Shot Caller Kensington Books

ISBN: 9781496727916 31 August 2021 Hardcover $34.65 eBook $13.26 Audio Book $21.48

When prisoners take control of a secure prison unit on Rikers Island, holding correction officers as hostages, it’s up to NYPD hostage negotiator Gemma Capello to diffuse the explosive situation, keep a bloody gang war from breaking out, and to save hostage and inmate alike.

Jen J. Danna writing as Sara Driscoll Under Pressure Kensington Books

ISBN: 9781496735041 30 November 2021 Hardcover $35.00 eBook $13.26 Audio Book $21.48

FBI handler Meg Jennings and her K-9 partner, Hawk, are drawn into a case that involves a fortune in uncut gems and the Philadelphia crime family. But when one of their own goes missing, it will take the entire FBI Forensic Canine Unit to crack the case and bring everyone home alive.

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Hilary Davidson Her Last Breath Thomas & Mercer

ISBN: 9781542028691 1 July 2021 Hardcover $24.95 Paperback $15.95 eBook $4.99 Audio Book $9.95

When her beloved sister Caroline dies, Deirdre is heartbroken. Her sorrow turns to confusion when she receives a message Caroline sent warning that her death would be no . As Deirdre digs into family secrets, she finds herself at risk…and that there may be more than one killer in the family.

Vicki Delany Murder in a Teacup Kensington

ISBN: 9781496725097 27 July 2021 Hardcover $32.00 eBook $9.99

National bestselling author Vicki Delany's delightful Tea by the Sea mystery series continues, as Cape Cod tearoom proprietress and part-time sleuth, Lily Roberts, stirs up trouble when she unwittingly serves one of her grandmother's B&B guests a deadly cup of tea...

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Vicki Delany Deadly Summer Nights Berkley Press

ISBN: 9780593334379 7 September 2021 Paperback $9.99 eBook $9.99

A summer of fun at a Catskills resort comes to an abrupt end when a guest is found murdered, in this new 1950s set cozy mystery series.

Vicki Delany A Curious Incident Crooked Lane Books

ISBN 9781643854748 12 January 2021 Hardcover $25.99 eBook $9.99

It's up to Gemma and Jayne to root out the killer in national bestselling author Vicki Delany's sixth Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery when the winner of a garden tour trophy is left pushing up daisies.

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William Deverell Stung ECW Press

ISBN: 9781770415959 31 March 2021 Hardcover $32.95

Arthur Beauchamp takes on the most explosive trial of his career: the defence of seven boisterous environmentalists accused of sabotaging a plant in Ontario that pumps out a pesticide that has led to the mass deaths of honeybees. The trial concludes with a tense, hang-by-the- fingernails jury verdict.

Anna Dowdall April on Paris Street Guernica Editions

ISBN: not ready yet 1 October 2021 Paperback $25.00

Private investigator Ashley Smeeton has struggles of her own in Montreal and an unusual job in wintertime Paris sounds like a break. She finds herself instead in an unsettling world of mirages and masks. Murder follows her back to Montreal, a city rife with its own unreasonable facsimiles.

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J.J. Dupuis Lake Crescent Dundurn Press

ISBN: 1459746481 6 July 2021 Paperback $17.99

Laura Reagan and her team are in Newfoundland shooting an episode about Cressie, a legendary giant eel. Things don’t start off great: scientific evidence is scarce, stories keep changing, and the locals are throwing a wrench into the production. But what began as a simple TV shoot takes a drastic turn when the crew pulls a body from the depths of Lake Crescent.

Helen C. Escott Operation Trafficked Flanker Press

1 September 2021 Paperback $19.95 eBook $19.95

A spectacular murder in a downtown hotel of a sixteen-year-old girl brings together seasoned police officers Sgt. Nicholas Myra (Operation Wormwood) and Cpl. Gail McNaughton (Operation Vanished) in a Joint Forces Investigation. They quickly dive into a twisting, turning breathless race.

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Max Folsom One Bad Day After Another Friesen Press

ISBN: 9781039100466 1 June 2021 Hardcover $28.99 Paperback $18.99 eBook $2.99

Baker Somerset finds the Ottawa police and a dead body at her office door. The dead man was a British diplomat investigating one of Baker's cold cases involving illegal activity in the military arms and equipment industry. Billions of dollars are at stake and the perpetrators are willing to kill.

A.J. Fotheringham Dancing at Dove Lake, Book 5 of The Lamb's Bay Mysteries Amazon

ISBN: 9798749327885 5 May 2021 Paperback $18.00 eBook $2.99

Hilly is convinced the murder of two of her former teachers and the disappearance of her best friend Brody are linked to what happened graduation night years ago at Dove Lake. A former student is seeking revenge. Can Hilly rescue Brody, close the case on the murders and bring the killer to justice?

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A.J. Fotheringham Secrets at the Spa, Book 4 of The Lamb's Bay Mysteries Amazon

ISBN: 9798701693379 28 January 2021 Paperback $23.04 eBook $2.99

A free spa weekend for Hilly and Vesta? They are looking forward to the hot tub, free facials and massages. But instead they get murder and mayhem. When they try to solve the crime by digging into the past, they find more secrets at the spa than they bargained for.

Sarah Fox A Room with a Roux (A Pancake House Mystery #7) Kensington Lyrical

ISBN: 9781516110865 12 January 2021 Paperback $21.95 eBook $7.19 Audio Book $21.92

Marley and her new husband need some quality couple time before the holiday madness, so they drive up into the mountains to charming Holly Lodge. But the getaway turns deadly when the lodge owner is murdered, and Marley has to catch the cold-hearted killer before someone else gets iced . . .

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Barbara Fradkin The Ancient Dead Dundurn Press

ISBN: 9781459743816 26 January 2021 Paperback $19.99 eBook $6.99

Amanda searches for the link between an old photograph, human bones buried in Alberta's famed dinosaur country, and an uncle who went missing thirty years ago. As she digs deeper into the hidden past, someone races to stop her at all cost.

S.M. Freedman The Day She Died Dundurn Press

ISBN: 9781459747401 27 April 2021 Paperback $18.99 eBook $9.99 Audio Book $24.99

For Vancouver artist Eve Gold, facing death isn’t the real shock — it’s what comes after. Brain damage from the near-fatal accident leaves her forgetful, confused, and tortured by memories of a deeply troubled childhood, where her innocence was stolen one lie — and one suspicious death — at a time.

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Eva Gates Deadly Ever After Crooked Lane Books

ISBN: 9781643855882 11 May 2021 Hardcover $32.00 eBook $9.99

Librarian Lucy's wedding is at stake when a murder interrupts her engagement celebrations. To make it down the aisle, she'll have to find the killer to save the date in the 8th book in the Lighthouse Library mysteries.

RM Greenaway Five Ways to Disappear Dundurn Press

ISBN: 9781459741560 21 March 2021 Paperback $17.99

Up on the breezy heights of Paradise Rd, a craftsman has been spiked to the lawn by his own artwork. Was it an aesthetics-fuelled feud with a neighbour? A random attack? The North Van RCMP stage a foolproof plan to snag the killer - instead sending Cst. Cal Dion straight into a fight for his life.

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Arthur Haberman Careless Justice Viaduct Press

ISBN: 9781554834822 15 April 2021 Paperback $19.95 eBook $3.50

In this instalment of the Toronto Justice series, Danny Miller investigates several murders occurring in the Rosedale neighbourhood of Toronto. Danny and his team encounter a variety of people as they are faced with murders in an apartment building, outside a subway station, and in the street.

Victoria Hamilton Double or Muffin Beyond the Page Publishing

ISBN: B08TF432RL 23 February 2021 Paperback $19.63 eBook $5.09

A reality TV show for aspiring opera singers descends on Wynter Castle. Merry’s got her hands full catering to the demands of the judges & ambitious contestants. As the contest & Merry’s investigation near their finale, she’ll have to act fast to keep the culprit from plotting her demise.

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Wendy Heuvel Faith, Rope, and Love - Faith and Foils Cozy Mystery Series #4 Olde Crow Publishing

ISBN: 9781990081033 23 February 2021 Hardcover $39.99 Paperback $19.99 eBook $6.79

Cassie Bridgestone isn’t ready for Valentine’s Day – not with a recent breakup stinging her heart, and the alluring Daniel tempting her to move on. So, when Cassie and Daniel stumble across the skeleton of a woman murdered in the sixties, Cassie can’t resist diving into the mystery to discover...

Julie Hiner Acid Track KillersAndDemons.com

ISBN: 9780995824379 12 March 2021 Paperback $24.99 eBook $3.99

It’s 1987. Hairspray is thick. Everything glimmers. The skeletal remains of a young boy are discovered in a cave. The body count spikes. The cryptic lyrics of an acid rock god lead Det. Mahoney down a dusty LP path. Will he catch the sadistic killer turning boys into afterlife dolls?

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Sue Jaskula All Fired Up The Wild Rose Press

ISBN: 9781509234950 10 May 2021 Paperback $17.99 eBook $5.99

Christine's life is shattered when accused of murdering her ex. Romance ignites when her childhood friend Jake tries to prove her innocence. Dodging a killer, they avoid media who suggest they were already lovers and planned the murder. Is Jake all he seems? Who's the killer and what's the connection?

Sue Jaskula Unexpected Connection The Wild Rose Press

ISBN: 9781509236473 28 July 2021 Paperback $19.99 eBook $5.99

Detective Jen Scott is suspicious when her friend's life is disrupted by an unbeknownst twin sister. When murder coincides, the twin becomes a prime suspect. Adding turmoil to Jen’s organized life and the murder investigation is her handsome and sophisticated new partner, Detective Luke O’Connor.

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Dean Jobb The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer HarperCollins Canada

ISBN: 9781443453325 1 June 2021 Paperback $24.99 eBook $13.99 Audio Book $34.99

Dr Thomas Neill Cream murdered as many as ten people in Canada, the US and England, eclipsing the crimes of Jack the Ripper. Bungled investigations, crude forensics and the Victorian Era’s stifling morality allowed the notorious “Lambeth Poisoner” to prey on women who turned to him for medical help.

Richard King Banking on Life Baraka Books

ISBN: 9781771862400 1 April 2021 Paperback $22.95 eBook $15.99

When a murder victim is discovered at the Gursky, Detective Sergeant Gilles Bellechasse is called upon to investigate. The investigation leads Gilles to New York and to a network of shady characters operating in New York and in Montreal who are trying to steal the deal from Mickie. The investigation is further complicated by three more murders.

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Jim Koris Human Trafficking, the Retribution Austin Macauley Publishers USA

ISBN: 9781643781976 31 January 2021 Hardcover $19.48 Paperback: $15.22 eBook: $5.95

The dream of twin to become fashion models turns into a deadly nightmare. Pretty sisters Irena & Katia from Sokolov Russia, after falling victims of human traffickers and threatened with death, manage to escape after killing some of their captors, but their luck runs out when they are recaptured and sent back.

John MacGougan Secrets of the Innocent Tellwell Talent

ISBN: 9780995858039 1 February 2021 Paperback $24.00 eBook $6.99

Charlie tackles the ten-year-old cold case murder of a seventeen-year-old teenager. With no witnesses, no DNA collected at the crime scene, and no new evidence, the odds of tracking down the killer were slim. Charlie would need to dig deep, and need a whole lot of luck to bring a killer to justice.

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Mike Martin Safe Harbour Ottawa Press and Publishing

ISBN: 9781988437736 31 May 2021 Paperback $18.99

Sgt. Windflower is on assignment in St. John’s. He's adjusting to life in the capital city. Navigating traffic, a new boss and an epidemic of missing girls. Come back to Sgt. Windflower Mysteries for the mystery and stay for the food and the fun.

Jonathan McCormick Vancouver Secrets Kindle

ISBN: 13 : 979-8611422540 1 June 2021 Paperback $20.41 eBook $3.60

When a connection is made to California money laundering, the Canadian detectives enlist the aid of retired Secret Service Agent Rebecca Simpson and Dr. Penelope Barker of Santa Barbara. Vancouver Secrets portrays educated, articulate and driven women living in an age of Me To and Times Up movements. The agents enjoy fine dining and shopping at upscale restaurants and boutiques while uncovering a billion-dollar money laundering industry.

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Donna McDougall Signs of the Fall Kindle (KDP)

ASIN: B093HC578C 25 April 2021 eBook $3.99

Detective Chalmers does not accept Dave Warner's story of the past 24 hours. Two days later a hiker's body is found. How are an executive, a parolee on the run and Dave Warner involved in the crime? In supporting the grieving father, Sheila Woods is vital to the investigation. Fate intervenes.

Catherine McKenzie Six Weeks to Live Simon & Schuster Canada

ISBN: 9781982137557 20 April 2021 Hardcover $33.48 Paperback $22.00 eBook $9.99 Audio Book $20.71

A gripping psychological suspense novel about a woman diagnosed with cancer who sets out to discover if someone poisoned her before her time is up, from the best-selling author of the “addictive and fast-paced” (Mary Kubica, New York Times best-selling author) thriller You Can’t Catch Me.

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Hannah Mary McKinnon You Will Remember Me MIRA

ISBN: 9780778331810 25 May 2021 Paperback $21.99 eBook $11.99 Audio Book $27.01

A man wakes up on a deserted beach in Maryland with a gash on his head and wearing only swim trunks. Lily is searching for her boyfriend, Jack. Maya wants her brother, who disappeared two years ago to come home. But is the man from the beach either of these men...or might he be both?

Barbara Monajem Lady Rosamund and the Horned God Level Best Books

ISBN: 9781953789495 20 April 2021 Paperback $16.95 eBook $5.99

Lady Rosamund escapes the tedium of mourning at a party with playwrights, poets, and actors—an immoral set with whom no respectable lady should associate. Even so, she hardly expects to find Gilroy McBrae masquerading as a footman, and to wake in the wee hours to find one of the guests lying dead.

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C.S. O'Cinneide Starr Sign: The Candace Starr Series Dundurn Press

ISBN: 9781459744875 9 March 2021 Paperback $20.99 eBook $5.59

Former hitwoman, Candace Starr is saddled with a teenage half-sister after their wayward mother, Angela, goes missing among her estranged mafia relatives. Witty, gritty, and full of cocky hard-edged wit, this is the second book in the Candace Starr crime series.

Gloria Pearson-Vasey The Hallowmas Train Tellwell Talent

ISBN: 9870228851189 26 March 2021 eBook $6.99

Two historical fiction stories in one suspenseful book Prosper Station: With Hallowmas approaching, time travelers, Azur Moonstorey and companions, exit Providence Crossing library to board the midnight train bound for nineteenth-century. Black Springs Abbey: Hilma Moonstorey is beset by anxieties and insecurities. Encouraged to take a position at Black Springs Abbey she soon discovers that the dilapidated abbey houses not only elderly nuns but ghosts and dark secrets.

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Judy Penz Sheluk Moonlight & Misadventure: 20 Stories of Mystery & Suspense Superior Shores Press

ISBN: 9781989495391 18 June 2021 Paperback $21.99 eBook $5.99

Whether it’s vintage Hollywood, the Florida everglades, the Atlantic City boardwalk, or a farmhouse in Western Canada, the 20 authors represented in this collection of mystery and suspense interpret the overarching theme of “moonlight and misadventure” in their own inimitable styles.

Judy Penz Sheluk Skeletons in the Attic WWL Mystery

ISBN: 9781335736253 27 July 2021 Paperback $8.99

Calamity (Callie) Barnstable isn’t surprised to learn she’s the sole beneficiary of her late father’s estate, though she is shocked to discover she has inherited a house in the town of Marketville—a house she didn’t know he had.

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Judy Penz Sheluk Where There's A Will ACX/Judy Penz Sheluk

ISBN: B093T9KL7K 3 May 2021 Audio Book $16.40

Emily Garland is getting married and looking for the perfect forever home. When the old, and some say haunted, Hadley house comes up for sale, she’s convinced it’s “the one." is also perfect for reality TV star Miles Pemberton and his new series, House Haunters.

Lorna Poplak The Don: The Story of Toronto's Infamous Jail Dundurn Press

ISBN: 9781459745964 26 January 2021 Paperback $24.99 eBook $11.99

The facts behind its location and construction; tales about inmates, guards, governors, gangs, officials, and even a pair of star-crossed lovers - look for all this and more in the saga of the Don Jail's tumultuous descent from palace to hellhole, its closing and astonishing modern-day metamorphosis.

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Anna Porter Deceptions ECW Press

ISBN: 9781770415386 4 July 2021 Paperback $21.95

“In Porter’s exciting sequel to 2017’s The Appraisal, art appraiser Helena Marsh attempts to trace the provenance of a painting believed to be the work of Artemisia Gentileschi…. The forgery tips alone are worth the price of admission. Porter takes readers on an exhilarating ride.

Chris Racknor Perfect Twelve Yellow Brick Publishing House

ISBN: 1230004584186 1 March 2021 eBook $4.99

Ex-physics professor Shawn Ronin is split between an undercover job and one last visit to campus to find missing grant money while trying to psych himself up for his new rat-race office job. None of it is rocket science, but that would be child's-play compared to what Shawn finds himself up against.

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Chris Racknor The First Five-Eighths Yellow Brick Publishing House

ISBN: 1230004584179 1 March 2021 eBook $3.99

Shawn Ronin is back because these problems won’t solve themselves. The star player from Shawn's former rugby team has gone missing. What did the kid get himself caught up in? Never one to leave a problem unsolved, Shawn is determined to find out, no matter the risk.

Chris Racknor Hidden Variables Yellow Brick Publishing House

ISBN: 1230004584155 1 March 2021 eBook $3.77

After disgraced physicist Shawn Ronin's ivory tower life came crashing down, his need to keep solving problems drove him to become a PI. None of his once Nobel Prize worthy papers can help him now as Shawn discovers just how much more complicated human problems are than anything found in a textbook.

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Robert Rotenberg Downfall Simon & Schuster

ISBN: 9781476740607 2 February 2021 Paperback $21.78 eBook $9.99

For decades, the Humber River Golf Club has been one of the city's most elite clubs. All is perfect in this playground for the rich, until homeless people move into the pristine ravine nearby - and mounting tensions between rich and poor come to a head when two of the squatters are brutally murdered.

Phil Rowlands Siena Diamond Crime (Diamond Books)

ISBN: 1838402624 27 April 2021 Paperback £8.99 eBook £2.99

Welsh artist Sara Jenkins’ husband and young son are killed during the shooting of a wealthy Italian in London. A year after the murders, still on the edge of sanity, she meets a Canadian academic who helps her find strength. She travels alone to Siena to search for a killer and find closure.

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Phil Rowlands Single Cell Diamond Crime (Diamond Books)

ISBN: 9781838402631 27 April 2021 Paperback £8.99 eBook £2.99

Deputy Prison Governor, Giles Lawson, has serious doubts about the suicide of a lifer. No one listens so he rattle cages and is warned off then suspended. He enlists the prison chaplain and, through him, a journalist. They begin a journey that will threaten not only their lives but his family's too.

Garry Ryan Catrinas Pages Books on Kensington

ISBN: ISBN 978199951352 2 June 2021 Paperback $21.95 eBook $4.99

What happens if a group of Canadians and Mexicans decide it's time for wealthy North American tax evaders to pay their share? All hell breaks loose after Lauren Jackson, Paul Lane, and their Mexican friends team up to take on the Untouchables.

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John Worsley Simpson The Emerson Ruby Murder Toller Lane Press

ISBN: 9798736611201 14 April 2021 Paperback $22.54 eBook $7.51

The Emerson brooch with its two-million-pound ruby is on public display at the annual soirée held by the lord and lady of a stately home on the Yorkshire Dales. The lord is killed, the brooch stolen, and detective Harry Stark is hired to track down the jewel.

Byron TD Smith Windfall: A Henry Lysyk Mystery Shima Kun Press

ISBN: 9781775322603 18 January 2021 Hardcover $32.00 Paperback $22.00 eBook $3.99

A murderous treasure hunter follows a fifty-year-old to Henry's doorstep. Can Henry unravel this cold case before he and his neighbors become its next victims? An engaging "What if. . ." solution to the most captivating unsolved heist of the twentieth century.

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Jamie Tremain Beholden to None Independently Published

ISBN: 9798514067305 1 July 2021 Paperback $16.89 eBook $4.83

P.I. Dorothy Dennehy takes on her first major case since the death of her fiancé, and partner, Paul Webster. The case takes her to Detroit and involves one of her own team. There are life threatening implications for all. Corruption at City Hall and a prestigious law firm lead to murder. Can she save her top investigator from an unrepentant criminal’s thirst for revenge?

Jamie Tremain Lightning Strike Independently Published

ISBN: 9798513985280 1 July 2021 Paperback $16.88 eBook $4.83

Dorothy is thrown head first into the hardest case of her career. Unfounded police accusations and emotional involvement threaten her focus. But she must keep her resolve, no matter the cost.

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Jamie Tremain The Silk Shroud Independently Published

ISBN: 9798512097991 1 July 2021 Paperback $16.88 eBook $4.83

Geisha dolls, industrial espionage and a mysterious fabric. P.I. Dorothy Dennehy must pull the clues together. Despite kidnap and murder attempts, she and her team risk high stakes to solve a crime reaching back decades.

Alan R Warren Mysterious Celebrity Deaths : The Interviews House of Mystery

ISBN: 9781989980262 3 March 2021 Paperback $15.99 eBook $4.99

The House of Mystery Interview series is a curated collection of interviews from the show. The House of Mystery Radio Show has been on the air for ten years, broadcasting in over a dozen cities in the US. It started as a way to interview guests knowledgeable in many of the world's mysteries involving crime, science, religion, history, paranormal, conspiracies, etc..

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Alan R Warren Jack the Ripper: The interviews House of Mystery

ISBN: 9781989980170 15 February 2021 Paperback $13.05 eBook $6.52

We have interviewed well over 20 authors/researchers of the Whitechapel Murders on the show. Some are Suspect Researchers (i.e., those having a specific suspect they believe is responsible for the killings). We had researchers who took a more scientific approach and then others who provided a list of all the suspects and the main elements of why each one was a suspect.

Alan R Warren Zodiac Killer Interviews House of Mystery

ISBN: 978198998 15 January 2021 Paperback $12.90 eBook $5.79

The House of Mystery Radioshow has been on the air for ten years, broadcasting in over a dozen cities in the U.S. It started as a way to interview guests knowledgeable in many of the world's mysteries involving crime, science, religion, history, paranormal, conspiracies, etc.

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Linda Wiken writing as Essie Lang A Deadly Chapter Crooked Lane Books

ISBN 9781643855769 9 March 2021 Hardcover $35.99 Paperback $14.39

When Thousand Islands bookstore owner Shelby Cox finds a body wedged between her houseboat and the dock, her sleuthing leads to the crime scene on Blye Island, site of her bookstore and the last spot the victim was seen. With too many suspects, it could lead to a deadly last chapter for the determined sleuth.

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