Quill and Quire

Fiction: Novels

Bed of Nails

By Michael Slade

The Michael Slade series of grisly thrillers is the work of a group of writers spearheaded by Jay Clark, a Vancouver trial lawyer. Clark has acted as both defense and crown attorney in dozens of ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Turncoat

By Don Gutteridge

In the bone-chilling depths of the winter of 1836, all is far from well in Upper Canada. Lieutenant-Governor John Colborne may be snug in Government House in Toronto, but in the farms east of the ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Onion Girl

By Charles de Lint

I’m an onion girl,” says Jilly Coppercorn, the chipper star of Charles De Lint’s sequence of fantasy novels set in the fictional city of Newford (think “a magical Ottawa”). Jilly is also the protagonist of ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Polar Circus

By D.A. Barry

Mystery novels that begin with a flashback (or a glimpse ahead) usually do so to conceal an opening scene that is not dramatic or interesting enough on its own. When a novel begins with two ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels