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McClelland & Stewart
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"The twenty-eighth installment of the #1 bestselling Inspector Banks series by "the grand master of the genre" (Literary Review), Peter Robinson. Late November, 1980. Nick Hartley, an English student, returns home from a lecture to find the house full of police. He soon discovers that his ex-girlfriend, Alice Poole, has been found murdered in a nearby park, and her new boyfriend, Mark Woodley, is missing. Nick quickly realises that he is a suspect...
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Joanne Kilbourn mysteries volume 16
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English
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Joanne's husband, Zack, recently elected mayor of Regina, is optimistic that he can garner the public support necessary to make Regina a city that works - not just for the few, but for the many. Their oldest son Peter is marrying Maisie Crawford. Their lakeside wedding is a dream come true, but before the bride's bouquet has wilted, there's an act of sickening cruelty - soon afterwards, there's a murder. Devastated, Joanne and Zack search for answers....
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In October 2008, Johnny Altinger, a 38-year-old Edmonton man, was on his way to a tryst with a woman he had met on an online dating website when he emailed the directions to their rendezvous to a concerned friend. He was never seen again. Two weeks before Altinger's disappearance, independent filmmaker Mark Twitchell began shooting a low-budget horror film about a serial killer who impersonates a woman on an online dating website to lure his victims...
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In 1930, a school principal is suspected of raping a student. Seven years later, on the other side of the country, a girl picking wild cherries meets a violent end. Connecting the two mysteries is the narrator's charismatic aunt, an intuitive teacher named Connie Flood. Anne Flood pieces together her aunt's lifelong attachment to her former student Michael Graves, and her obsession with Parley Burns, the inscrutable principal. As the novel moves deeper...
6) Alias Grace
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 28
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In this astonishing tour de force, Margaret Atwood takes the reader back in time and into the life and mind of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the nineteenth century. In 1843, at the age of sixteen, servant girl Grace Marks was convicted for her part in the vicious murders of her employer and his mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Grace herself claims to have no memory of the murders. As Dr....
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McClelland & Stewart
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Detective Superintendent Alan Banks is called in to lead the investigation after a shocking mass murder occurs during a wedding outside a small church in the Yorkshire Dales. An exhaustive manhunt ensues and the shooter is run to ground as the investigation follows its inevitable course.
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Joanne Kilbourn mysteries volume 12
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McClelland & Stewart
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English
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In the twelfth mystery in Gail Bowen's Joanne Kilbourn series, a new mother is assaulted and murdered, instigating both a search for her killer and a distressing custody battle over her six-month-old child. It is a riveting, heart-rendering story of the ageless struggle between selfishness and selflessness. Print run 5,000.
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Joanne Kilbourn mysteries volume 11
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McClelland & Stewart
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English
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The bestselling Gail Bowen returns with a gripping story of marriage, politics, sex, and murder.
With a general election just weeks away, Joanne Kilbourn is following the campaign of Ginny Monaghan, a woman who has her eyes set on the leadership of the federal Conservative Party and whose success depends, not so much on the election-day poll, but on the outcome of a custody battle she’s fighting with her ex. Joanne thinks this is perfect...
With a general election just weeks away, Joanne Kilbourn is following the campaign of Ginny Monaghan, a woman who has her eyes set on the leadership of the federal Conservative Party and whose success depends, not so much on the election-day poll, but on the outcome of a custody battle she’s fighting with her ex. Joanne thinks this is perfect...
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Arthur Beauchamp mysteries volume 5
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English
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While renewing his annual try for the Most Points in Vegetables and Fruits at the Garibaldi Island Fall Fair, Arthur Beauchamp is forced by new developments to revisit his first murder trial which went horribly wrong. Now, nearly 50 years later, he is opening old wounds but also facing a chance for redemption and reconciliation.
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Season of darkness trilogy volume 2
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McClelland & Stewart
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English
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In bestselling and beloved author Maureen Jennings' second mystery of the World War II trilogy, DI Tom Tyler is sent to the industrial city of Birmingham, where a fatal explosion in a munitions factory may not have been an accident.
13) The night bell
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McClelland & Stewart
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Michael Redhill's new Hazel Micallef mystery, written under the pen name of Inger Ash Wolfe, is his strongest yet. For readers of crime fiction who enjoy such writers as Giles Blunt, Linwood Barclay, Lee Child, Louise Penny, or Peter Robinson. A discovery of the bones of murdered children is made on land that was once a county foster home. While trying to stem the panic and solve two crimes at once, Hazel finds her memory stirred back to the fall...
14) Not dark yet
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Detective Superintendent Alan Banks and his team are alerted to a cache of spycam video recordings, which have been found at the house of murdered property developer Connor Clive Blaydon. As DI Annie Cabbot and DC Gerry Masterson investigate, they discover that one of the recordings appears to depict a rape. After technical enhancement, an acceptable image of the victim is produced and her identity puts into the doubt the working theory about who...
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McClelland & Stewart
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By one of the world's top writers of crime fiction, When the Music's Over — which takes on the sexual abuse of an adolescent girl by a celebrity in the entertainment world — is one of Robinson's strongest to date.
When the body of a young girl is found in a remote countryside lane, evidence suggests she was drugged, abused, and thrown from a moving van — before being beaten to death.
While...
When the body of a young girl is found in a remote countryside lane, evidence suggests she was drugged, abused, and thrown from a moving van — before being beaten to death.
While...
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McClelland & Stewart
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The creator of the acclaimed Detective Murdoch Mysteries turns her exceptional storytelling skills to a stand-alone murder mystery set in rural Shropshire, England, in the darkest days of the Second World War. Elsie Bates, a vivacious young Londoner, is now working in the fields of Shropshire as a member of the Land Army. A German invasion seems imminent and everyone is on edge and, at night, literally in the dark. Then Elsie's body is found by the...
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Joanne Kilbourn mysteries volume 17
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English
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A triple homicide will rip apart the lives of those related to Joanne Kilbourn-Shreve's husband's law partners. Dazed by grief, Joanne will seek answers to an impossible question: "Why did they die?" The facts behind the suicide of Christopher Altieri appear to provide insights, but for Joanne those insights raise new, unsettling questions. Knitting this powerful narrative together is Joanne's unshakeable belief that the only thing worse than knowing...
19) Stalker
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The police receive a video clip of a woman in a window and reason that someone must have been standing in the garden just outside her house to be able to film her. The next day the woman is found dead in her home, the vicious violence of the scene shocks even the most seasoned investigators.
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Joanne Kilbourn mysteries volume 2
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McClelland & Stewart
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English
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As a child Joanne was friends with Sally Love and her parents, but the friendship languished after Sally’s father died and she moved away, eventually becoming a very controversial artist. When the Mendel Gallery opens an exhibition of Sally’s work, Joanne is eager to attend and to renew their friendship. But it’s not so easy being Sally’s friend anymore, and soon Joanne finds herself ensnared in a web of intrigue and violence....
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