COOL CANADIAN CRIME 2012 Annual Catalogue MYSTERY SUSPENSE/THRILLER NONFICTION YOUNG ADULT SHORT STORIES & ANTHOLOGIES 2012 Member Books By Release Date January Anthony Bidulka, Dos Equis, Insomniac Press James T. Barrett, Deferred Prejudice, JT Barrett Gail Bowen, Kaleidoscope, Random House Colleen Cross, Exit Strategy, Slice Publishing Alison Bruce, Deadly Legacy, Imajin Books Stanley Evans, Seaweed in the Mythworld, Ekstasis Liz Bugg, Oranges and Lemons, Insomniac Press Editions Erika Chase, A Killer Read, Berkley Prime Crime Julia Madeleine, The Truth About Scarlet Rose, Vicki Delany, A Winter Kill, Orca/Rapid Reads Malefic Vicki Delany, Burden of Memory, Poisoned Pen Press Rick Mofina, The Burning Edge, MIRA Vicki Delany, Gold Mountain, Dundurn Rene Natan, The Bricklayer, Createspace Vicki Delany, Scare the Light Away, Poisoned Pen Howard Shrier, Boston Cream, Random House/Vintage Press Elizabeth Elwood, The Agatha February Brian Lloyd French, Mojito!, Realciprocity Peggy Blair, The Beggar’s Opera, Penguin Canada Principle and Other Mystery Stories, iUniverse Hilary Davidson, The Next One to Fall, Tom Doherty David. A. Gibb, Camouflaged Killer, Berkley Books Assoc. A.R. Grobbo, Suitable Fate, Double Dragon Publishing R.J. Harlick, A Green Place for Dying , Dundurn Dave Hugelschaffer, Whiskey Creek, Cormorant Books David Rotenberg, The Placebo Effect, Simon & Julia Madeleine, Stick A Needle In My Eye, Malefic Schuster Julia Madeleine, The Refrigerator Girls, Malefic Phyllis Smallman, Champagne For Buzzards, Simone St. James, The Haunting of Maddy Clare, NAL McArthur Co May March Janet Bolin, Threaded For Trouble, Berkley Prime Cathy Ace, The Corpse with the Silver Tongue, Crime TouchWood Robert Landori, Mayhem on the Danube, AuthorHouse Debra Purdy Kong, Deadly Accusations, TouchWood D.J. McIntosh, Witch of Babylon, Penguin Canada Michael J. McCann, Marcie's Murder, Plaid Raccoon Press Robert Rotenberg., Stray Bullets, Simon & Schuster Stephen Legault, The Vanishing Track, TouchWood Scott Thornley, The Ambitious City, Random House Digital Inc Rosemary McCracken, Safe Harbor, Imajin Books Eugene Meese, Uncorrected Proof, Solstice Publishing June Robert Pobi, Bloodman, Simon & Schuster Pamela Callow, Tattooed, MIRA Books Sylvia Maultash Warsh, Best Girl, Orca /Rapid Reads Deryn Collier , Confined Space, Simon & Schuster R.E. Donald, Slow Curve on the Coquihalla, Proud April Horse Publishing Catherine Astolfo, Legacy, Imajin Books* top 2012 Annual/3 crimewriterscanda.com Janet Kellough, Sowing Poison, Dundurn Reads Finley Martin, The Reluctant Detective, The Acorn M.C. Grant, Angel With A Bullet, Midnight Ink Press Stephen Legault, Slickrock Paradox, TouchWood John Lawrence Reynolds, Beach Strip, HarperCollins Gwendolyn Southin, Death as a Fine Art, TouchWood July October Melodie Campbell and Cynthia St-Pierre, A Purse to Die Lou Allin, Contingency Plan, Orca/Rapid Reads For, Imajin Books C.C. Benison, Eleven Pipers Piping, Doubleday Canada Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game, Thomas & Mercer Joan Boswell, Cut to the Bone, Dundurn R.E. Donald, Ice on the Grapevine, Proud Horse Miriam Clavir, Insinuendo: Murder in the Museum, Publishing Bayeux Arts Don Gutteridge, Dubious Alliance, Simon & Schuster Sharon A. Crawford, Beyond the Tripping Point, Blue Bev Irwin, Ghostly Justice, Black Opal Books Denim Press Chynna Laird, Dark Water, Imajin Books Elizabeth J Duncan, A Small Hill to Die On, St Martin's Mike Martin, The Walker on the Cape, Baico Press Publishing Peter Kirby, The Dead of Winter, Linda Leith Steven Owad, Hard Currency, Five Star Publications Yvonne Yourkowski, Murder From Beyond The Hilary MacLeod, All is Clam, The Acorn Press Grave, CreateSpace Rick Mofina, They Disappeared, Harlequin Mira Phyllis Smallman, Highball Exit, TouchWood Editions September Anne Barton, The Devil Laughs, JRM Mysteries November Ruth Barrett, Base Spirits, Spirited Words Book Co. Jill Downie, A Grave Waiting, Dundurn Press (WAP) Alice Walsh, Analyzing Sylvia Plath, Thomas & Mercer Rick Blechta, The Fallen One, Dundurn Press Sharon Wildwind, Loved Honor More, Five Star Melodie Campbell, The Goddaughter, Orca/Rapid Reads December Brenda Chapman, Second Chances, Dundurn Erika Chase, Read and Buried, Berkley Prime Crime Vicki Delany, More Than Sorrow, Poisoned Pen Press Barbara Fradkin, Evil Behind That Door, Orca/Rapid The 2013 Arthur Ellis Awards is now accepting submissions in 7 published categories. These works must be in the crime/mystery/thriller genre, and published for the first time in the previous year (2012) by permanent residents of Canada, or by Canadian citizens living abroad. Best Crime First Novel ­ Best Crime Novel ­ Best Crime Novella (3-year pilot) ­ Best Crime Short Story ­ Best French Crime Book (Fiction and Nonfiction) ­ Best Juvenile or YA Crime Book (Fiction and Nonfiction) ­ Best Nonfiction Crime Book For Submission Rules, go to: www.crimewriterscanada.com/awards/submissionrules/published-books. top 2012 Annual/4 crimewriterscanda.com MYSTERY Cathy Ace Catherine Astolfo The Corpse with the Silver Tongue Legacy • TouchWood • Imajin Books • ISBN: 9781927129098 • ISBN: TBA • March 2012 • April 2012 • Paperback $14.95 • eBook $3.99 In the south of France a man seemingly Dark memories from the past and long admired, and certainly feared, drops dead at a dinner buried secrets surround seemingly unconnected families. party. Each guest falls under suspicion, including As each individual searches for answers, they learn that it Welsh-Canadian professor Cait Morgan. A criminologist is only through community and love that they can specializing in profiling victims, Cait sets out to solve the overcome the ramifications of evil. murder. Anne Barton C.C. Benison The Devil Laughs Eleven Pipers Piping • JRM Mysteries • Doubleday Canada • ISBN: 978-0-9739363-2-2 • ISBN: 978-0-385-34446-3 • September 2012 • October 2012 • Paperback $15.95 • Hardcover $25.00 The church is rocked by the actions of a As Devon endures the worst snowstorm small group who want to get rid of the rector, Douglas in a century, Tom Christmas, vicar of St. Nicholas Forsythe. But when a troublesome woman who was Church, investigates the peculiar death of a bagpiper at a thought to be the leader of this group is murdered, the traditional Burns Supper. problems don't go away; they get worse. Anthony Bidulka Janet Bolin Dos Equis: A Russell Quant Mystery Threaded For Trouble • Insomniac Press • Berkley Prime Crime (Penguin USA) • ISBN: 978-1-55483-067-1 • ISBN: 978-0425251324 • April 2012 • May 2012 • Paperback $19.95 • Paperback $8.99 Having spent the last year in self-imposed Welcome to Threadville, where crafts are exile from his life as a Saskatchewan private detective, king, and a “killer” sewing machine lives up to its name. Russell Quant returns home, only to find himself faced Darlene Coddlefield, the winner of a national sewing with the greatest horror of his career. Pitted against a competition, has come to In Stitches, to be presented with Machiavellian villain, Quant recruits his entire entourage her prize, a top-of-the-line sewing and embroidery of family and friends in an unforgettable caper. machine. But Darlene’s triumph is short-lived after she’s found dead. top 2012 Annual/5 crimewriterscanda.com Joan Boswell Gail Bowen Cut to the Bone Kaleidoscope • Dundurn • McClelland & Stewart • ISBN: TBA • ISBN: 978-0-7710-1689-9 • October 2012 • April 2012 • Paperback $17.99 • Hardcover $29.99 • ePUB $8.99 uPDF $17.99 The thirteenth in Gail Bowen's beloved It’s happened again! Hollis Grant, who has fashioned a and award-winning Joanne Kilbourn mystery series new life for herself with a foster child, a puppy and a job promises to be the best of them all: some very bad things as resident super of an eight storey apartment building happen very, very close to home, and Joanne may never finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation when be quite the same again. a fifth floor tenant, a woman working for an escort agency, is murdered. Alison Bruce Liz Bugg Deadly Legacy Oranges and Lemons • Imajin Books • Insomniac Press • ISBN: TBA • ISBN: 978-1554830657 • April 2012 • April 2012 • Paperback $14.99 • Paperback $19.95 • eBook $3.99 Calli Barnow, Toronto P.I., is back with an 2018: When Joe Garrett dies unexpectedly, he leaves his undercover assignment that takes her from the world of daughter Kate half of Garrett Investigations, his last case big-city advertising to the poker tables of Niagara Falls. that ties to three murders, a partner she can’t stand, and a What begins as a simple case of fraud turns sinister as the legacy to live up to. No matter how hard they try, bodies mount. At the same time Calli is forced to deal Carmedy and Garrett can’t avoid each other – and they with her sometimes comical, sometimes traumatic might be next on a killer’s list. personal life. Melodie Campbell Melodie Campbell and The Goddaughter Cynthia St-Pierre • Orca Books, Rapid Reads A Purse to Die For • ISBN: TBA • Imajin Books • September 2012 • August 2012 • Paperback $9.95 • Paperback $14.99 When a cousin is taken down by rival • eBook $3.99 mobsters, the Goddaughter is reluctantly recruited to The victim wore haute couture.... carry hot gems back to Buffalo. Then the worst happens – When fashionista and television celeb Gina Monroe goes they get stolen. She has no choice but to steal them back, home to attend the funeral of her late grandmother, the even though philandering politicians, shoe fetishists and last thing she expects to encounter is murder. Who is the inept goons stand in their way. dead woman in the woods behind the family house? And why is she dressed in Milan designer clothes? top 2012 Annual/6 crimewriterscanda.com Erika Chase Erika Chase A Killer Read Read and Buried • Berkley Prime Crime • Berkley Prime Crime • ISBN: 978-0-425-24703-7 • ISBN: 9780425251782 • April 2012 • December 2012 • Paperback $8.99 • Paperback $8.99 Ironic murder mars the inaugural meeting Award-winning novelist Derek Alton of the Ashton Corners Mystery Readers and Cheese should have been the featured guest at the December Straws Society.