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Charlie McKelvey goes to his northern hometown to find that the big city isn't the only place with big problems. This book holds a magnifying glass to the decline of rural life, the scourge of meth, and what happens when an entire town loses faith.

There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold;The Arctic trails have their secret tales That would make your blood run cold."Robert W. Service, "The Cremation of Sam McGee."The High Arctic has long been a land of romance, a magnet drawing adventurers. From the 60th Parallel to the North Pole across the tundra and the Barren Lands, the Far North has beckoned the brave, the foolhardy, and the curious. The mystery of the Land of the Midnight Sun has fascinated poets and writers, painters and sculptors, no less than scientists and explorers. In this anthology, a spectrum of Canadian writers explore in their imaginations crime and malfeasance and thrilling danger under the flickering Northern Lights. Come mushing down these secret trails with John Ballem, John Buchan, Rose De Shaw, Carol Newhouse, Marjorie Pickthall, James Powell, Peter Sellers, Robert W. Service, and Eric Wright, as they probe the wilderness of human evil in this entertaining melange of short stories old and new. From the paleolithic to high-tech oil drilling, the enduring saga of crime and punishment is told by these talented story-spinners in these tales of detection, mystery, and adventure.Dr. David Skene-Melvin is the dean of anthologizers of Canadian criminous short fiction and has previously edited Crime in a Cold Climate: An Anthology of Classic Canadian Crime (Simon & Pierre/Dundurn, 1994); Investigating Women: Female Detectives by Canadian Writers An Eclectic Sampler (Simon & Pierre/Dundurn, 1995); and Bloody York: Tales of Mayhem, Murder and Mystery in Toronto past, present and future, (Simon & Pierre/Dundurn, 1996). He is also the compiler of Canadian Crime Fiction 1817-1996: An Annotated Comprehensive Bibliography and Bibliographical Dictionary of Canadian Crime Writers, (The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 1996), covering both English and French-language adventure, crime, detective, espionage, mystery, suspense, and thriller fiction, including tales of intrigue, violence, and investigation in both adult and juvenile novels and plays.

Marta Hendriks is onstage at the Metropolitan Opera in New York when she learns of her beloved husband's death in a house fire. Overcome, she collapses and has to be carried off the stage. Fast-forward two years and countless therapy sessions, and Marta is ready to resume her career. In a stroke of luck, she's hired at the last moment to sing Violetta for the Paris Opera. She manages to keep her emotions under tight control and triumphs in the opening-night performance. During one of her rare days off, relaxing for the first time since her husband's accident, something threatens her newfound peace. When Marta is caught in a sudden downpour, she dashes for the shelter of a subway station and spots someone doing the same. It is her husband. Marta fears she's losing her mind - or did she actually see him? Back home in Toronto, she struggles with her need for the truth at the precipice of madness.

In the summer of 1897, Fiona and her son, Angus, arrive in Vancouver in time to hear the news--gold has been discovered in the Klondike! Fiona immediately sets off to pursue her ambition, but is stymied by infamous gangster Soapy Smith and his henchman.

Upper Canada, 1844. Nathan Elliott returns to the lakeside village of Wellington to be at his dying father's side. Within a few days, his brother reports that Nathan disappeared without a trace. Then Nathan's wife arrives in the village claiming that she can contact the dead.

After a fellow police officer is murdered, Sergeant-Detective Irina Drach and her partner Sergeant-Detective Hudson connect the crime with a seed bank raid in England. Soon it becomes apparent that highly organized abduction teams are scooping up the finest animal specimens from zoos, nature preserves, and the wild.

Toronto Detective Miranda Quin takes time off in the tropics and gets trapped in a sinister plot. Her partner, Detective David Morgan, is left alone to resolve the case of a beautiful corpse and ends up compromised in the mysterious Arctic. Islands, they learn, are an illusion. Everything connects, especially when murder is involved.

To the Gitxsan people of Northwestern British Columbia, the grizzly is an integral part of the natural landscape. Together, they share the land and forests that the Skeena River runs through, as well as the sockeye salmon within it. Follow mother bear as she teaches her cubs what they need to survive on their own.

Paul Wahasaypa—Siha Tooskin—knows that whether we are taking berries or plants from the earth or knowledge from a learned person it is so important to offer a gift back to show honour and appreciation. Join Paul and his teacher Mrs. Baxter to find out what they discover about the protocol of offering the tobacco plant.

Paul knows that Ena Makoochay (Mother Earth) gives us many things. On this compelling nature journey with Ena (his mom), we learn how strength, generosity, kindness, and humility are all shown to us by grandfather rocks, towering trees, four-legged ones, and winged ones, reminding us of the part we have to play in this amazing creation.

Visit Siha Tooskin (Paul) in the hospital and learn where “modern medicine” comes from and how we can all benefit from both Indigenous and Western healers as Paul seeks the best medicine for his own wellness.

Helpless to stop a deadly illness, Rocky Cree Elder Kākakiw struggles to help the sick as more and more people pass into the spirit world. To save his people, Kākakiw must overcome doubt to trust in traditional teachings and the gift of the Little People.This is a companion story to The Six Seasons of the Asiniskaw Īthiniwak series.

Siha Tooskin (Paul) takes his expert bike riding to a whole new level so he doesn't miss a thing. At home, Mugoshin (Grandmother) is creating a special gift to protect the precious little one. Join Paul as he enjoys delicious bannock, imagines the future of a new baby sister, and listens to Mugoshin’s teachings about the catcher of dreams.

Indigenous, Seven Teachings, respect, Anishinaabe, community, family

Summer on Vancouver Island gets off to a grim start when a homeless man is found dead near sleepy Fossil Bay by a family geocaching in the surrounding area. Investigating RCMP Corporal Holly Martin, a newcomer to this small detachment in a vacation mecca, gets involved when she and Constable Chipper Knox Singh notice drug paraphernalia nearby. The mans wallet has stolen identification, an old photo, and several new hundred-dollar bills. Another drifter suggests that the victim had come to town to hook up with an old girlfriend, who says that the man is Joel Clavir, the long-lost criminal brother of a respected local woman, and that he has come to try to collect on his sisters recent big lottery win. More information leads Holly to believe that Joel had something of value, which he hid at the site of his death.

Former Toronto Hold-Up Squad Detective Charlie McKelvey is puttering through the first year of his forced retirement. His tedious life is torn wide open when a friend enlists his help in locating a recent Bosnian immigrant named Donia Kruzik. The friend, Tim Fielding, had just begun a relationship with the woman when she suddenly disappears without a traceand Fielding suspects foul play. McKelvey is quickly drawn into the case as the bodies and clues pile up. When the body of an unidentified woman turns up in Fieldings apartmentand Fielding is nowhere to be foundMcKelvey finds himself the prime suspect in an increasingly obscure murder investigation. The streets of Toronto come alive as McKelvey attempts to balance his collapsing personal life with his obsessive mission to find his friend and clear his own name. From the first page to its explosive ending, Slow Recoil picks up where the critically acclaimed The Weight of Stones left off.

When zoology professor Cordi O'Callaghan reluctantly accepts an invitation to be a lecturer aboard the "Susanna Moodie," a vessel ferrying tourists through Canada's Arctic, she figures it will be a breeze. Seasickness aside, Cordi becomes entangled in the deaths of two of her fellow passengers, both members of a close-knit fiction-writing group. The fatalities are ruled accidental, but Cordi suspects theyre anything but. However, she lacks evidence and credibility, according to Martha Bathgate and Duncan McPherson, her sometimes reluctant sidekicks who try to keep her grounded. After Cordi returns to her home in the Ottawa Valley, she hits the trail and stirs up a hornets' nest of lies, intrigue, jealousy, and greed as she grills potential murderers, one of whom takes offence and stalks her. Getting marooned on pack ice, a harrowing trip in an airplane and a hot air balloon, and a mysterious fire all add to the menace that threatens Cordi as she attempts to nail down a killer.

Victims' advocate Camilla MacPhee is following the trial of a ruthless criminal charged with a fatal firebombing.But when his sleazy counsel is found dead, it delays the proceedings. She soon learns the victim was not the only member of the legal profession whose death was heralded by a tasteless attempt at humour.

Peter Ellis is a rookie probation officer in interior British Columbia when he gets saddled with a file that goes sideways. He's not in the best headspace to start with, since his marriage broke down last winter. Now it's the middle of summer, the rode

The Ladies Killing Circle brings together an explosive mix of authors from across the country. Whether it's the boom of drums, the cacophony of a train wreck, or the thud of a body crashing down the stairs, no one goes out without a fight. Stories to chill you, entertain you or plain blow you away in this eclectic fictional brew.

In this new series by the acclaimed author of the Belle Palmer mysteries, RCMP Corporal Holly Martin takes charge of her first post, a detachment in tiny Fossil Bay on the wild south coast of Vancouver Island. Drunk drivers, speeders and the occasional theft from tourist cars lead the crime roster, but her first day starts with a distress call. A scuba diver has found the body of a girl in the surf. A tragic drowning caused by a fall? The late arrival of tox-scan results for crystal meth, the most recent plague to hit the island, raises ugly questions. Just before Holly makes an arrest, a record-setting typhoon roars in, empowered to destroy everything in its path. As the wind howls and trees crash around her, Holly struggles to survive and to bring a murderer to justice.

After more than thirty years as the muckraking publisher of the Coast Chronicle on the B.C. shoreline, Albert Sloan made plenty of enemies. But when his body is found hanging in an apple grove off Settlers Road, the Mounties waste no time ruling his death a suicide. Pat Ross is drawn into an investigation of Sloans last days.

Meg Harris discovers the skull and bones of a woman whose very existence takes the archeological world by storm. But when her neighbours, the Migiskan Algonquin, declare their rights to the ancient remains, Meg becomes embroiled in a fight that pits ancient beliefs against modern ones and leads eventually to murder.

Fiona Silks romance writing career is tanking, and her tiny house may be sold for unpaid taxes. But Fiona's new agent has a planFiona can write an erotic cookbook. This project would be easier if Fiona had a sex life or a working oven. Soon bad things start to happen to people, but, oddly, only when Fiona is nearby.

Zoology professor Cordi O'Callaghan keeps one stumble ahead of a murderer as she follows a path littered with motives.