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The Endless Knot

By Gail Bowen

The Endless Knot is the 10th novel in Gail Bowen’s mystery series featuring Joanne Kilbourn. Anyone who thought the city of Regina did not possess sufficient fodder for murder and mystery has officially been proven ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Drina Bridge

By Jim Bartley

The disturbingly graphic violence in the introductory paragraphs of Drina Bridge might give pause to the faint of heart or weak of stomach. Nevertheless, readers who forge on with this debut novel will be amply ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ysabel

By Guy Gavriel Kay

With this new novel, Toronto writer Guy Gavriel Kay returns to a more mythic storytelling approach, following several books that embraced the historical over the fantastic. This is not, however, the epic fantasy of the ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Empress of Asia

By Adam Lewis Schroeder

Five years ago, B.C. author Adam Lewis Schroeder published a stunning first collection of short fiction. The stories in Kingdom of Monkeys showed an amazing range; they were technically sophisticated, darkly funny, strangely moving, full ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Rootbound

By Grant Buday

This new novel by B.C. author Grant Buday is a dismal, depressing affair that seems to enjoy wallowing in the various misfortunes and tribulations of its characters, in particular those of its protagonist.Willie LeMat is ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels