Ideas of religion, sexuality, and vengeance are challenged when murder comes to a small town known for wine, theatre, rich cultural history, and deep-rooted family trees. Celebrated actress Bella James returns to the acclaimed Shaw Festival where she’s not only starring in a musical but is also part of an Artist-in-the-Classroom initiative at the local high school. When the popular teacher she’s assigned to work with is found hanged in his office, Bella and Detective Sergeant Andre Jeffers...

Shortlisted for the 2016 Bony Blithe Award and the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel When actress Bella James relocates to the town of Niagara-on-the-Lake to perform at the renowned Shaw Festival, she is only looking to step out of the spotlight of television celebrity and onto the stage. What she finds instead are long-buried human remains in the yard of her rented house. Upon learning that a woman was brutally attacked in the home thirty years earlier, Bella becomes convinced the t...

Author of Encore and Triple Threat. Nominated for both the 2016 Bony Blithe Award and the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel.Cold cases, buried secrets, and a race against time to bring the truth to light--one the reveals just how far people with go to get what they want and protect what they have.When the body of a young woman discovered in a dumpster has surprising connections to a number of dead and missing women, Detective Sergeant, Andre Jeffers,...