Detective Lauren Jackson takes the lead in this novel. She uncovers a hired killer's link to North American Untouchables. Jackson and Lane join forces with a group of compatriots in Todos Santos, Baja California Sur. All are targeted by a shadowy terrorist group and their lethal super-rich employers. Complications arise with an unexpected arrival, followed by the governments of Mexico, the US, and Canada demanding answers from a revolutionary group called the Catrinas. Jackson and Lane are...

Detective Lane has a knack for discovering the whereabouts of missing persons. But the city's latest case has disappeared without a trace. After a brutal attack on his young nephew, ex-mayor Bob Swatsky has gone missing with 13 million dollars of taxpayer's money. Is he on the run with the cash, or is it something more sinister? A zany cast of characters, including a love doll and a chain-smoking grandma with an oxygen tank, lead Detective Lane on a thrilling romp through the streets of Ca...

When young Sharon Lacey travels from Canada to England in the spring of 1940 in search of the father she never knew, she finds herself called upon to participate in a much larger and more dangerous mission. For at eighteen, she is a gifted flier in an England desperate for pilots to fend off the impending attack from Hitler’s Luftwaffe. In the months that follow, Sharon will be tested in ways that will affect the rest of her life—should she survive.With Blackbirds,

After a video of him being hit over the head with a bottle of maple syrup goes viral, Garrett “The Carrot” Macgregor finds his life back on track.Then a massacre devastates the small town of Corporation, Alberta, bringing with it the national spotlight.A trio of women, alongside a quirky inventor and his husband, decide they’ve had enough of penile politics and seek to expose the open secrets of the town’s most powerful and wealthy, while simulatenously bringing back the go...

After a series of assassinations rocks Calgary’s underworld, Detective Lane is conscripted along with his husband Arthur into working undercover to seek out links in the Mexico - Canada drug connection and stop the violence.As tensions mount back in Canada and outright war on the streets seems imminent, the laconic detective and his allies must use some unorthodox tactics to avert disaster in the Gulf of California and dismantle the cartel.

It's July 1948, and peace has been declared in Europe. Sharon Lacey, the formerly fearless fighter pilot, leaves the English home she has known for years and makes her way back to Canada to build a new life. But daily life in postwar Calgary, Alberta, is more ambiguous than Sharon could ever have expected. In wartime, it seemed easy to know who the enemy was. Peace, it turns out, is a very different game.

His psyche still reeling from having to kill a criminal in the line of duty, Calgary’s Detective Lane flies to Cuba to celebrate the wedding of his beloved niece. While there, though, he finds himself drafted by the local police into investigating the murder of a Canadian tourist.Upon his return to Calgary, links between this incident and the deaths of local elderly pensioners start to make themselves known, drawing Lane and his partner Nigel Li further into a web of conspiracy, po...

After a long series of professional and personal upheavals, Detective Lane begins his latest adventure happy, at peace, and enjoying life with his partner Arthur, their children Christine and Matt, and his able new partner, RCMP officer Keely Saliba.But when the body of a young boy is unearthed ten years after he was reported missing, Lane’s investigation into the crime puts him in conflict with a powerful and charismatic Calgary real estate developer and restaurateur—a cunning soc...

Detective Lane returns for a fourth time in Smoked, Garry Ryan's darkest mystery to date.When Jennifer Towers is found dead in a graffiti-tagged dumpster, Detectives Lane and Harper must decipher the art to find its artist - and possibly the victim's killer. What begins as an unconventional murder investigation leads to the disturbing discovery of two abused children, whose father becomes a prime suspect in the case. In true Detective Lane form, Lane must protect the damag...

The fires of the Second World War are beginning to burn down, but legendary Canadian aviatrix Sharon Lacey is not out of danger just yet. Complications enter the young ace's life as deep-seated racial and class prejudice, potential fifth columnists and even her own killer code of honour threaten her hard-fought reputation, while a new and wonderful secret might also prove to be her undoing.Meanwhile, across the Channel in Fortress Europe, new weapons have started rolling off Nazi p...

Garry Ryan follows up Smoked with his most revelatory Detective Lane mystery yet. While under investigation by the Calgary Police Department, Lane finds himself fighting for his career. Then, when an Eastern European war criminal winds up dead in the city, and his partner Arthur is diagnosed with cancer, Lane must contend with dangerous criminals, broken allegiances, pressure from his superiors, a determined bomber, and the very real fear of losing the person he cares for most of all.

Get caught up on the Calgary Herald-bestselling Detective Lane series of novels by mystery maestro Garry Ryan with this collection of his first three books, Queen's Park, The Lucky Elephant Restaurant and A Hummingbird Dance!“Garry Ryan is one of our finest novelists in any genre.”- Drewey Wayne Gunn, Reviewing the Evidence"Ryan balances suspense with humour, creating books that are, quite simply, a great read."Ma...