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Jenny Willson finds more than she bargains for when she travels to Namibia to save local wildlife from poachers. Parks Canada warden Jenny Willson has left Canada to join an American colleague on a secondment to assist Namibian authorities trying to stem the loss of the country’s rhinos to illegal hunting. But the plan takes a dramatic turn when Willson finds herself in the crosshairs of a conspiracy involving wildlife poachers backed by a shadowy network of international buyers prepared to eliminate any obstacles in their way, including Willson and her new team. While the Namibian assignment allows Willson to sidestep personal and professional questions that remain unanswered back home, she quickly recognizes that her decision to leave the Canadian Rockies could have deadly ramifications.

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Author is a retired RCMP officer who worked undercover for 20 years, and bases the novels on real-life experience. Book 13 in the long-running Jack Taggart Mystery series that has sold nearly 8,000 copies Taggart investigates a kidnapping ring and an information leak in his unit with deadly consequences.

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A small-town thriller where characters cannot outgrow the secrets and resentments of their younger years, and are caught up in a murder investigation Author is an editor and award-winning author of several non-fiction books

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Book 4 in the Cullen and Cobb series of western crime novels that teams up a former cop with an investigative journalist A crime series set in Calgary, a booming city often overlooked in genre fiction Author has written 25+ books and has a high profile, particularly in western Canada Author is also an actor, and a savvy marketer, speaker, and interviewee Author’s YA novels have won the Sakura Medal in Japan and been shortlisted for the Forest of Reading White Pine and Red Maple Awards

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A string of incidents causes Cal Dion to learn some harsh truths about himself. A single-vehicle crash on the Sea to Sky Highway is blamed on the notorious stretch of road – but when bad things start happening to the good people who stopped to help the victim, North Vancouver RCMP Constable Dave Leith starts to wonder if something darker is at play. Leith and his partner, JD, work through clues that are as close to bizarre as they’ve ever seen. At the same time, Leith is keeping tabs on a murder suspect who is too close for comfort: Cal Dion, a cop and colleague, knows all about crime – and perhaps how to get away with it. Dion is looking at a long fall from grace, but his mind is on the Sea to Sky killings, and he’s beginning to think the team is on the wrong track. Could it be that a crime from his turbulent past holds the key?

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Private investigator Dan Sharp investigates the disappearance of three closeted gay men. When a serial killer stalks downtown Toronto, private investigator Dan Sharp finds an unexpected link between the missing men that even the police are reluctant to investigate. A meeting with the chief of police confirms his suspicions, but does nothing to resolve the problem. Obsessed with uncovering the truth, Dan enlists a small group of friends to delve into illicit goings-on in the local sex industry. It’s only when the next man disappears, however, that Dan finds himself in a race against time to track down an elusive, manipulative killer who is a master of disguise.

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Book 12 in the long-running Jack Taggart Mystery series that has sold nearly 8,000 copies Taggart infiltrates a gun-smuggling ring, trying to stem the tide of illegal firearms and avenge a fellow officer «Easton knows how to drive his story full of teeth-shattering toughness … and it’s a brutal pleasure seeing Jack Taggart through to the end.» – National Post , for Art and Murder Delves into a world of violent survivalists living off the grid Author is a retired RCMP officer who worked undercover for 20 years, and bases the novel on real-life experience

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With the assurance and grace of her acclaimed novel The Gloaming— which earned her comparisons to Patricia Highsmith—Melanie Finn returns with a precisely layered and tense new literary thriller. The Underneath follows Kay Ward, a former journalist struggling with the constraints of motherhood. Along with her husband and two children, she rents a quaint Vermont farmhouse for the summer. The idea is to disconnect from their work-based lifestyle—that had her doggedly pursuing a genocidal leader of child soldiers known as General Christmas, even through Kay's pregnancy and the birth of their second child—in an effort to repair their shaky marriage. It isn't long before Kay's husband is called away and she discovers a mysterious crawlspace in the rental with unsettling writing etched into the wall. Alongside some of the house's other curiosities and local sleuthing, Kay is led to believe that something terrible may have happened to the home's owners. Kay's investigation leads her to a local logger, Ben Comeau, a man beset with his own complicated and violent past. A product of the foster system and life-long resident of the Northeast Kingdom, Ben struggles to overcome his situation, and to help an abused child whose addict mother is too incapacitated to care about the boy's plight. The Underneath is an intelligent and considerate exploration of violence—both personal and social—and whether violence may ever be justified. "Finn does an excellent job of keeping the reader guessing, and the tension in the narrative always comes across as organic, never manipulative. The Underneath is an excellent thriller." —Michael Schaub, Star Tribune [/b]

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Lacey McCrae tracks down a killer in the frozen hills of rural Alberta. When Zoe and her teenage daughter discover an ice-covered corpse at her boss’s mountain chalet, ex-Mountie Lacey McCrae trades her Christmas shopping for Victim Services duty. The dead man is Eric, an intern at the Calgary oil company where Zoe works. Reported missing after a blizzard a month earlier, he was presumed dead by misadventure. But his missing car and other inconsistencies point to a suspicious death. When someone close to Lacey goes missing in similar circumstances, she fears the two cases may be connected. With help from old RCMP colleagues and tips that Zoe swears came from a ghost, Lacey tracks a ruthless killer through the merciless winter wilderness.

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Keeping secrets is a very bad idea. Former teenage runaway and new single mother Nadia Armstrong moves to Kingston to turn her life around. But six months after she rents a low-end apartment, her body is found at an isolated construction site. Major Crimes begins piecing together her last days, uncertain if it is a case of suicide or murder. To make matters more difficult, a member of the team is leaking information, putting Staff Sergeant Rouleau in a precarious position. Meanwhile, Officer Kala Stonechild’s niece, Dawn, is secretly corresponding with her father, who’s out on early parole and turns up in town uninvited.Dawn’s friend Vanessa is also keeping a dangerous secret – her relationship with an older man named Leo, who preys on young girls. And it’s not long before he has Dawn in his sights.

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