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After more than thirty years as the muckraking publisher of the Coast Chronicle on the B. C. shoreline, Albert Sloan made plenty of enemies. But when his body is found hanging in an apple grove off Settlers Road, the Mounties waste no time ruling his death a suicide. At the urging of Sloans widow, reporter Pat Ross is drawn into an investigation of Sloans last days. As the truth emerges, and even after a second high-profile death-by-apparent-suicide...
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Crang, the smart (and often smartass) criminal lawyer, finds himself embroiled in a mystery while on vacation on the French Riviera.
Like all the criminal messes Crang has ever found himself caught up in, this one begins in perfect innocence. As Crang is leaving for a holiday on the French Riviera with his movie-critic girlfriend, Annie, his rich-as-Croesus former father-in-law appears to ask if he'd mind checking up on an errant family...
Like all the criminal messes Crang has ever found himself caught up in, this one begins in perfect innocence. As Crang is leaving for a holiday on the French Riviera with his movie-critic girlfriend, Annie, his rich-as-Croesus former father-in-law appears to ask if he'd mind checking up on an errant family...
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Private investigator Dan Sharp searches the seamy underbelly of the city for a brutal killer.
Following an anonymous tip, missing persons investigator Dan Sharp makes a grisly find in a burned-out slaughterhouse in Toronto's west end. Someone is targeting known sex offenders whose names and identities were released on the Internet. When an iconic rock star contacts Dan to keep from becoming the next victim, things take a curious turn....
Following an anonymous tip, missing persons investigator Dan Sharp makes a grisly find in a burned-out slaughterhouse in Toronto's west end. Someone is targeting known sex offenders whose names and identities were released on the Internet. When an iconic rock star contacts Dan to keep from becoming the next victim, things take a curious turn....
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For the first time, this ebook bundle presents all three novels in C.B. Forrest's Charlie McKelvey Mysteries series, short-listed for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Fiction. The Weight of Stones - A Charlie McKelvey Mystery #1 - Detective Charlie McKelvey's life has been stuck on pause since the murder of his runaway son. Burdened with guilt, obsessed with the investigation, McKelvey starts to come unhinged. Slow Recoil - A Charlie McKelvey...
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A private investigator and a journalist team up in Calgary to fight for justice. Read the first two books in the exciting western crime series Cullen and Cobb Mysteries. Serpents Rising: Private investigator Mike Cobb and journalist Adam Cullen take on twin investigations that take them onto Calgary's meanest streets on the trail of a runaway and a killer. Dead Air: Someone is killing big name right-wing media personalities. When ex-cop Mike Cobb...
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Charlie McKelvey goes to his northern hometown to find that the big city isn't the only place with big problems. Retired Toronto detective Charlie McKelvey runs from a cancer diagnosis and the violent memories of the big city and retreats to his hometown. A small declining mining centre, Ste. Bernadette offers McKelvey a chance to resolve old family issues, including his father's involvement in a deadly wildcat strike in the late 1950s. When the...
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A private investigator and a journalist team up in Calgary to fight for justice. Read all four books in the exciting western crime series.
Serpents Rising - book #1
Private investigator Mike Cobb and journalist Adam Cullen take on twin investigations that take them onto Calgary's meanest streets on the trail of a runaway and a killer.
Dead Air - book #2
Someone is killing big name right-wing media personalities. When ex-cop Mike Cobb is hired...
8) Slow Recoil
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Some bullets take years to find their mark… Former Toronto Detective Charlie McKelvey is puttering through the first year of his forced retirement. His tedious life is torn wide open when a friend enlists his help in locating a recent Bosnian immigrant who has simply disappeared without a trace. Her teacher and recent lover, Tim Fielding, suspects foul play. At first hesitant, McKelvey is quickly drawn into the case as the bodies and clues pile...
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Dissatisfied lawyer Winston Patrick leaves his first career to pursue teaching at a Vancouver high school - but he can't seem to leave the legal world behind. Deadly Lessons Winston Patrick, a successful lawyer but dissatisfied with his career defending the downtrodden of Vancouver's criminal world, trades in the courtroom for the high school classroom. Soon Winston's past life meets his present when a student accuses a fellow colleague of a teacher-student...
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A case brings PI Dan Sharp to the northern Ontario wilderness, where he has to face his own dark past.
When a four-year-old autistic boy disappears on a camping trip, his mother is reluctant to involve the police. Instead, she calls in private investigator Dan Sharp after a ransom demand arrives.
On investigating, Dan learns there are plenty of people who might be responsible for the kidnapping. Among them are an ex-husband who wrongly believed...
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Toronto at the close of 1999. It is a time of change, but Detective Charlie McKelvey's life is stuck on pause since the murder of his runaway son, Gavin. As his wife focuses on healing, McKelvey is burdened with guilt for his role in kicking the teen out of the family home-and his inability to move the case to resolution. Obsessed with the stalled murder investigation, McKelvey's behavior becomes increasingly unhinged. He is convinced the person responsible...
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In the tenth Jack Taggart Mystery, Taggart goes head to head with a longtime enemy who's been eluding him for years ...
Jack Taggart is once again going head to head with his nemesis, Damien Zabat, national president of the Satans Wrath Motorcycle Gang. Taggart and Zabat's lives have long been intertwined by a violent history of retribution and murder, dependent on unwritten rules of conduct — rules far outside the parameters of the...
Jack Taggart is once again going head to head with his nemesis, Damien Zabat, national president of the Satans Wrath Motorcycle Gang. Taggart and Zabat's lives have long been intertwined by a violent history of retribution and murder, dependent on unwritten rules of conduct — rules far outside the parameters of the...
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When missing persons investigator Dan Sharp attends a wedding, he finds himself investigating more than one murder. Dan Sharp, a gay father and missing persons investigator, accepts an invitation to a wedding on a yacht in Ontario's Prince Edward County. It seems just the thing to bring Dan closer to his noncommittal partner, Bill, a respected medical professional with a penchant for sleazy after-hours clubs, cheap drugs, and rough sex. But the event...
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The smart-talking, wise-cracking, jazz-loving criminal lawyer has got a taste for straight vodka and a nose for trouble. No one could ever accuse Crang of being a superhero, but with his usual mixture of innate cool and naive enthusiasm he brings the villains to justice.
This 6-book bundle includes:
Crang Plays the Ace Crang Mystery #1
Straight No Chaser Crang Mystery #2
Riviera Blues Crang Mystery #3
Blood Count Crang Mystery #4
Take Five Crang...
16) None So Deadly
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A police investigator's murder has put Cullen and Cobb back on a twenty-five-year-old cold case.
It's a case that has haunted Cullen and Cobb for years - the murder of eleven-year-old Faith Unruh. And now the brutal killing of a police investigator who was similarly obsessed with the little girl's murder has put PI Mike Cobb and former crime-writing journalist Adam Cullen back on the killer's trail - and directly in the line of fire.
As the case...
17) The God Game
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Private investigator Dan Sharp finds himself caught up in a political murder. When the husband of a Queen's Park aide runs off to escape his gambling debts, private investigator Dan Sharp is hired to track him down. As the city's political landscape verges on the bizarre - with a crack-using mayor and a major scandal looming - Dan finds himself pitted against a mysterious figure known for making or breaking the reputations of upcoming politicians....
18) Booking In
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Mystery-solving criminal lawyer Crang returns to investigate the disappearance of two rare books. Fletcher Marshall is a Toronto antiquarian book dealer, internationally respected in the business. One night, someone blows the safe in his office and makes off with the contents, which include an infamous forged first edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese that is in itself a collector's item. Fletcher, who was still in the...
19) Last Song Sung
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A musical cold case has Cullen and Cobb back on the beat. On February 28, 1965, a young singer named Ellie Foster stepped into the alley behind The Depression, a Calgary folk club where she shared the bill with Joni Anderson, later to become famous as Joni Mitchell. During a cigarette break in the back alley, Ellie was forced into a car and the musicians with her were shot and killed. The investigation that followed turned up no sign of the kidnappers,...
20) Crang Mysteries 4-Book Bundle: Crang Plays the Ace / Straight No Chaser / Take Fi…: Books #1-2 & 5-6
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Jack Batten's hard-boiled Crang series returns with this four-book bundle, including the latest Crang mystery, 2016's Keeper of the Flame! Includes: •Crang Plays the Ace • Straight No Chaser • Take Five • Keeper of the Flame
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