The 170-year history of the San Francisco Bay Area told through its crimes and how they intertwine with the city’s art, music, and politics In The Murders That Made Us, the story of the San Francisco Bay Area unfolds through its most violent and depraved acts. From...
Recently featured in: The New York Times Bustle Quill & Quire Booklist Publishers Weekly CBC Toronto Star A My Favorite Murder recommended read “A must for true crime fans.” – Booklist “A truly impressive account of this dark chapter in [Ontario’s] history . . . Not just...
Someone’s making a killing at a major poker tournament — one dead player at a time — in this mystery featuring a young female undercover cop “[Death Plays Poker] is a book that grabs you like a gambling addiction and doesn’t let go.” — Saskatoon StarPhoenix Every...
Award-winning author Anne Emery is back with another Collins-Burke team-up The students at Father Brennan Burke’s choir school have written a two-act play about the Halifax Explosion of 1917. The last thing Burke expects is a series of threats against his school and his students, designed to...
Go past the Police tape. Were it merely another run-of-the-mill cop opera, Homicide: Life on the Street would hardly warrant the attention of a book. But it is much more than that. Celebrated for the consistent quality of its writing, the unprecedented cinematic feel it brings to...
“As literate as it is funny,”Maclean's magazine raved about Murder at Osgoode Hall, Jeffrey Miller’s first novel featuring Amicus the courthouse cat. In Murder's Out of Tune, Amicus returns, applying his acerbic wit to the case of ageing lion Des Cheshire, a cat who really swings. For...
Theft, extortion, embezzlement, mafia ties, drunk driving and even murder — these are the true stories of priests gone bad. It’s a dark and windy Easter in Toledo, Ohio when Sister Margaret is found murdered in the chapel, the victim of a Satanic ritual. Twenty years later...
“Tightly plotted and featuring a lead character who keeps us glued to the page, the book should definitely suit readers looking for an intriguing lead character and a solid mystery.” — Booklist A retired Scotland Yard detective is lured back to work in “a series to follow,...
It seems like everyone I talk to wants to know two things. One is whether I’m a serial killer or a mass murderer. The way I understand it, a serial killer kills people over a length of time and doesn’t get caught for a while. A mass murderer does it...
The beginning of the fall publishing season has arrived! Take a look at the following titles, hot off the press for September 2017. New in Sci-Fi & Fantasy Beforelife by Randal Graham (Sept. 5) What if you went to heaven and no one there believed in Earth? Randal Graham’s Beforelife is a satirical novel...