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This double edition of the Mister Jinnah Mysteries series presents Donald J. Hauka’s Mister Jinnah Securities and She Demons . Hakeem Jinnah is a politically incorrect but relentless crime reporter for the Vancouver Tribune who finds himself embroiled in an increasingly bizarre series of police investigations. Fast-paced, funny, and suspenseful, the Mister Jinnah series feature the larger-than-life crime reporter, flirtatious and always resourceful. Jinnah has to use every ounce of his investigative genius to solve a crime and make a few extra dollars on the side. «… one of this year’s funniest debuts» – The Calgary Herald «Mr. Jinnah’s first outing, in Mr. Jinnah: Securities, was adapted for television. She Demons should set him up for a series.» – The Globe & Mail

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This double edition of the Moretti and Falla Mystery series presents Jill Downie’s Daggers and Men’s Smiles and A Grave Waiting . Daggers and Men’s Smiles : Lights! Camera! Action! On the English Channel island of Guernsey, Detective Inspector Ed Moretti and his new partner, Liz Falla, investigate vicious attacks on Epicure Films. Moretti must consolidate his working relationship with Falla, and establish whether the murders on Guernsey go beyond the island. A Grave Waiting : Guernsey police detectives Ed Moretti and Liz Falla are called in to investigate the shooting death of arms dealer Bernard Masterson on the Just Desserts, his luxury yacht. With the knowledge that there’s nowhere to hide in a world as small as his island, Moretti searches for answers before a violent showdown.

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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. «A tour de force, the crime fiction trifecta.» – Tim Wynne-Jones, author of Blink & Caution and two-time Governor General Award winner 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 comes unhinged. Slow Recoil – A Charlie McKelvey Mystery #2 Some bullets take years to find their mark… . McKelvey's life is torn wide open when a friend enlists his help in locating a recent immigrant who has disappeared without a trace. Before long, McKelvey finds himself a prime suspect in a murder investigation. The Devil's Dust – A Charlie McKelvey Mystery #3 Stumbling into the hornets' nest of the crystal meth trade in his hometown, McKelvey confronts what happens when an entire town loses faith.

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Cordi O’Callaghan is trapped on a remote island research station and in way over her head. While a hurricane rages, Cordi stalks a murderer – or is it the other way around? Zoologist Cordi O’Callaghan thinks she’s in for a relaxing birdsong study at a research station on Spaniel Island, off the coast of South Carolina. But, as usual, she can’t escape the chaos that follows her everywhere she goes. As a hurricane rages, trapping her and the rest of the researchers, the director of the station is found dead under troubling circumstances. Unable to resist a mystery, Cordi sets out to investigate, and ends up getting a crash course on the life habits of bats, sea turtles, and rattlesnakes – and a refresher on attempted murder.

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In one volume for the first time, this bundle presents the first three novels of the Holly Martin Mystery series by Lou Allin. At her first RCMP post in tiny Fossil Bay on the wild south coast of Vancouver Island, Holly falls in love with island life. But she soon learns that the isolated area also attracts the darker sides of human nature. «A must-read book that will be hard to put down this season.» – Monday Magazine Twilight Is Not Good for Maidens – Holly Martin Mystery #3 (NEW!) A series of savage attacks on lone women rocks the island, and Holly thinks the case is ready to break – one way or another. She Felt No Pain – Holly Martin Mystery #2 After a troubling autopsy, Holly suspects there’s more to the case than the tox-screen suggests. A drought strikes, and one match could ignite the area. And on the Surface Die – Holly Martin Mystery #1 Holly’s first day on the job starts with a distress call that isn’t what it seems.

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Detective Miranda Quin is not only fighting crime, she’s fighting for her life. The summer before 9/11, Toronto homicide detective Miranda Quin wakes up to find her lover dead beside her, yet has no memory of going to bed with him. Horrified by the results of the forensic investigation, the normally feisty Miranda moves through events in a daze while her partner, Detective David Morgan, offers support. Because Miranda is the prime suspect, neither she nor Morgan are able to pursue the case officially, freeing them from jurisdictional constraints. They find it impossible to avoid being pulled into the rush of events that follow from one mysterious death to another in a quirky narrative that brings in a New York policeman who reads Thoreau and a beautiful and dangerous European wine expert who is not what she appears to be. As the plot moves from Toronto to New York and London, a deadly fraud leads to explosive revelations of drug smuggling as a cover for international terrorism.

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After surviving the horrors of the Great War, Paul Shenstone works as a police detective in 1920s Toronto, rooting out petty criminals and rumrunners. The unusual murder of a prominent industrialist gives him the biggest case of his career and a not entirely welcome opportunity to make his name on the force. The waters are muddied when the investigation starts uncovering connections between the deceased Digby Watt and soldiers Shenstone knew in Flanders. What will Shenstone’s choice be if he has to arrest one of his own comrades? He has promised Watt’s attractive and independent daughter that he will bring the perpetrator to justice, but bonds forged in war are not easily broken. In the end, what does justice require, restitution or punishment?

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In the fourth Polly Deacon mystery, pregnant and grumpy, Polly yearns to escape the increasingly annoying advice of family and friends. When an opportunity comes up to travel to England to attend a puppetry conference, she jumps at it, in spite of her «delicate condition». The trouble starts when someone tries to steal her luggage at the airport, and by the time she arrives in Canterbury, she knows someone’s stalking her. When another woman is found dead, a mangled puppet nearby, the question arises – is Polly next? Set against the backdrop of the ancient town where Thomas Becket was murdered, this fourth Polly Deacon mystery places puppet-maker Polly in the middle of a pea-souper fog, eluding a persistent thug, refusing to cooperate with the police and desperately trying to stay out of trouble. This is hard to do – when you’re sleuthing for two.

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Northern Ontario realtor Belle Palmer is showing the lakefront mansion of a prominent businesswoman when she discovers the lady strangled in her bathtub. Could this third break-and-enter death reveal a serial killer at large in the Nickel Capital? The womans only child, a precocious twelve-year-old, comes to stay with Belles neighbours and wins her heart and theirs. Then after an argument, the boy disappears, riding off into the cold September night on his bicycle. Racing against time as fall temperatures plummet, Belle hooks up with a bumbling PI and joins the search. Belle must flee into the bush, where she has every chance of becoming lost and disoriented, chased by murderers who will stop at nothing to protect a multi-million-dollar criminal empire.

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Belle Palmers old high-school boyfriend rents a property on her road. Zoologist Gary Myers is studying the behaviour of elk in the wilderness., but soon he is found drowned. Did he fall and hit his head, or did a more sinister event occur? Meanwhile, someone has broken into his cottage, taking a camera and laptop. A clipping about poisoning on reserves leads Belle to visit the place of his demise. Seconds after she arrives, she is at gunpoint. She must paddle into the bush with no way back. Who has been causing havoc in the wilderness and will stop at nothing to cover their crimes?