2015 Speaker's Book Award — ShortlistedCity planning in the GTHA has been mired in political grandstanding for the past decade, The New Urban Agenda offers a plain language solution to the issues plaguing the GTHA.Politics in the Greater Toronto, Hamilton Area (GTHA) have become increasingly divisive over the past decade, and solutions to the city’s problems have become hot-topic issues debated in council and the press, but never finding r...

The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017What are the limits of Canadian democracy and how are they being expanded by a revolution in participatory democracy?The Brexit vote in Britain and the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States illustrate that our system of representative democracy is in deep trouble.There are signs of political alienation everywhere. Most believe that government is run by a few big interests. Wealthy corpo...

Hard Riding is a detective novel set in Toronto that explores an accident on the city streets. A young mother, riding her bicycle home from work, is struck and killed by a car driven by a man who appears to be a respectable businessman.As Mariner, a detective with the Toronto Police Department, probes deeper into the case he finds that Charles Abbott, the driver of the car, is out of control. Witnesses say he was driving erratically at the time of the accident.But Abbott come...

'One of this country's most exciting crime novelists.' Daily MailNot even one of Ireland's best detectives can catch these killers.In a secluded cove just outside the reaches of the city of Cork, a woman wakes up buried in the sand, unable to pull herself free. The gulls wheel silently overhead, oblivious to her nightmare…DS Katie Maguire of the Cork Garda is soon tracking the terrifying gang of torturers who call themselve...

FROM THE MIND OF THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER M.J. ARLIDGE COMES THE BRAND NEW SERIAL KILLER THRILLER STARRING DETECTIVE INSPECTOR HELEN GRACE...* * * * *"You have one hour to live."Those are the only words on the phone call. Then they hang up. Surely, a prank? A mistake? A wrong number? Anything but the chilling truth... That someone is watching, waiting, working to take your life in one hour.But w...

A web of lies. A confusion of secrets. A maze of murder.In a quiet Manchester suburb, a man sets himself on fire in a petrol station. Nearby, a fourteen-year-old girl murders her mother in cold blood.At the Coroner's Officer, Detective Inspector Ridpath is called in to investigate both of these baffling deaths. Is one a suicide and and the other an unexplained murder? Or does something more sinister link the two seemingly unconnected tragedies?As ...

The number one bestseller and Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year by national treasure Bob Mortimer.‘The most life-affirming, joyful read of the year’ - Sunday Times‘Winningly heartfelt’ – The Guardian‘A triumph’ – Daily MailBob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a heart condition that required immediate...

The No.1 bestseller and three-time Crime Writers' Award Winner returns with a nail-biting new book. If you loved When You Are Mine or you're hunting for thrillers that make you think and feel, you won't want to miss this.As the daughter of a London crime boss, PC Philomena McCarthy walks a thin blue line keeping the two sides of her complicated life apart.On patrol one night she discovers a child in pyjamas, wandering alone. Taking Daisy home, Ph...

The second gripping thriller in the Kate Brannigan series, from No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Val McDermid.‘No one can plot or tell a story like McDermid’ ExpressPI Kate Brannigan is hired to investigate a series of strange financial scams across Manchester. At first it looks like a discrepancy with the paperwork, but the deeper Kate digs, the murkier the case becomes.Before long she’s up to her neck in crooked land deals – and murder – and her own l...

· · THE IRISH TIMES AND KINDLE No. 1 BESTSELLER · ·Shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger'I cannot put it down!' Georgia Hardstark, MY FAVORITE MURDERI was the girl who survived the Nothing Man.Now I am the woman who is going to catch him...You've just read the opening pages of The Nothing Man, the true crime memoir Eve Black ...

A fantastic crime collection, including a brand-new Inspector Banks novella, from Number One bestseller Peter RobinsonWhen DCI Alan Banks arrived in Eastvale his life was every bit as much of a mess as it is now. But he is holding an envelope that could change everything he understood about the events that sent him north twenty years ago. Walking again the narrow alleys and backstreets of his mind, he remembers the seedy Soho nights of his last case - dubious busin...

‘Two women died every week in the UK at the hands of a partner or ex-partner. On average, women endured thirty-five incidents of domestic abuse before contacting the police.And then I showed up the thirty-sixth time and stumbled through my arguments for why the victim should trust us. As if we could save them.It had been two months, and so far I remembered all of their faces. So far, none of them had turned up on the daily briefing as the borough’s lat...