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Death on the Rocks

By Eric Wright

Lucy Trimble, Eric Wright’s third Canadian detective series character, makes her second appearance in Death on the Rocks. Her debut in Death of a Sunday Writer saw the fifty-something small-town library worker and oppressed housewife ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: 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