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Book 2 in the John Cardinal series
When the dismembered corpse of an American tourist turns up half-eatenby bears near Algonquin Bay, Detective John Cardinal is assigned to thecase. Without a solid lead, and with the RCMP and CSIS involved,Cardinal is forced to band together with his nemesis, Sergeant MalcolmMusgrave, to untangle the deceit and cover-ups surrounding the case. Thena well-respected local woman is found frozen under a glaze...
When the dismembered corpse of an American tourist turns up half-eatenby bears near Algonquin Bay, Detective John Cardinal is assigned to thecase. Without a solid lead, and with the RCMP and CSIS involved,Cardinal is forced to band together with his nemesis, Sergeant MalcolmMusgrave, to untangle the deceit and cover-ups surrounding the case. Thena well-respected local woman is found frozen under a glaze...
2) Deafening
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Frances Itani's lauded and award-winning American debut novel has been sold in sixteen countries, was a Canadian best seller for sixteen weeks, reaching #1, and has been awarded the Commonwealth Writers Prize Best Book Award for the Caribbean and Canadian Region. Set on the eve of the Great War, Deafening is a tale of remarkable virtuosity and power. At the age of five, Grania emerges from a bout of scarlet fever profoundly deaf, and is suddenly sealed...
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Su-Jen and her parents settle uneasily into their new life in a town where they are the only Chinese family. She feels the weight of her mother's unhappiness as her life takes her outside of the diner and the traditional customs. Then when a tragedy occurs at school, Su-Jen's life changes again. 2004.
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Vanessa Moss, an executive with the National Television Corporation, thinks somebody’s trying to kill her. To protect herself, she engages the services of old classmate and gumshoe Benny Cooperman to go undercover as her personal assistant. Benny discovers a warren of competing executives, backbiting lawyers, arrogant producers, and sycophantic flunkies. But when an NTC employee is murdered, Benny finds out that taking care of Vanessa Moss is...
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Alf Walker works at the textile mill on the Island on the Attawan River. When the mill workers attempt to unionize in the aftermath of a corporate take-over, Alf's actions inadvertently set in motion a series of events that will reverberate far into the future and burden him with an unspoken shame. Some strong language. Descriptions of sex and some descriptions of violence. 2003.
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Charlie Salter is sixty - the age limit for active police duty, but the recent murder of a prominent lawyer is the perfect opportunity for him to prove he is still up to the job. The prime suspect is a hooker, last seen near the victim's apartment. Salter's search leads him to a large poker game organized by the law profession's elite, where he finds the clues he needs to solve the case. Some strong language. 2001.
7) Old scores
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When a music mogul is found strangled to death in his apartment, there's little that would give detectives Barry Gilbert and Joe Lombardo reason to pause, but this is no ordinary murder victim. Glen Boyd, the sly music producer whom even Gilbert once threatened to kill after the man nearly destroyed his marriage, seems to have a list of enemies a mile long. Soon it becomes a race against time for Gilbert to find the true culprit behind this crime...
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In Let Loose the Dogs, Murdoch’s life and work overlap tragically. His sister, who long ago fled to a convent to escape their abusive father, is on her deathbed. Meanwhile, Harry Murdoch, the father whom Murdoch long ago shut out of his life, has been charged with murder and calls on his estranged son to prove his innocence. But, knowing his father, what is Murdoch to believe?
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William Murdoch mysteries volume 3
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Constable Oliver Wicken dies in what appears to be a suicide. However, when new evidence is discovered, Detective William Murdoch is asked to investigate further. During the investigation, he begins to suspect that the suicide is not what it seems. 2002.
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Journalist Andrea Curtis remembered her grandmother Eleanor as a sophisticated Montreal matriarch. Then she began researching the 1906 sinking of the steamboat J. H. Jones, which had been captained by Eleanor's father. While looking into his role in the tragedy, she discovered Eleanor's hidden past.
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