When Hollywood stand-up comedian Biff Kincaid learns the comedian he’s filling in for at the last minute at a comedy club was murdered, he uses his skills as an amateur detective to find out who the killer is. He uncovers a joke thief who recorded Biff’s act and sold it to wealthy wannabe who plans to use Biff’s material for his debut special. Another comedian would let it slide, but Biff has never backed away from a fight in all his years in the funny business, and he’s not going to start...

Tinker Gordon doesn’t want anything to change. He thinks that if he holds on tightly enough, his family, his tiny Cape Breton Island community, his very world will stay exactly the way it has always been. But explosions large and small—a world away, in the Middle East, in the land of opportunity in western Canada, and in his own home in Falkirk Cove—threaten to turn everything Tinker has ever known upside down.Set variously in the heart of rural Cape Breton, on the war-torn streets...

Hollywood stand-up comedian turned amateur sleuth Biff Kincaid is called at the last minute to headline a comedy club inside a sprawling resort on the Las Vegas Strip. He's thinking big laughs and good times are all that's in store when he boards the next plane to Sin CIty. He has no idea that the real gig won't be just headlining a showroom--it's solving a murder.It turns out he's filling in for his friend and fellow comic Tiger Moore. Tiger was stabbed by a mysterious killer who ...

In this fast-paced novella, when ventriloquist Priscilla Graham has her wisecracking stuffed sidekick Checkers stolen, she turns to her opening act for help—none other than stand-up comedian turned amateur sleuth Biff Kincaid. With just twenty-four hours to go before show time--and the hefty payday he desperately needs--Biff springs into action. It’s up to him to track down the dummy-nappers who stole Checkers by uncovering their twisted motives and dark deadly secrets. Biff races against ...

Danger finds comedian Biff Kincaid once again in this novella set in the high-stakes world of late night talk shows. For years Biff’s friend Lonnie Udall has been the sidekick to Doug Easton, host of Last Laughs, television’s top-rated late night talk show. When Biff accepts a gig as Lonnie’s opening act at a Palm Springs casino, he thinks he’s in for a lucrative week of sold-out stand-up shows. The first night goes well, but the next morning Lonnie is nowhere to be found. Despera...

Finalist for the 2020 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in Nonfiction and the July/August selection for the Amnesty International Book Club.Joanne Vannicola grew up in a violent home with a physically abusive father and a mother who had no sexual boundaries.After being pressured to leave home at fourteen, and after fifteen years of estrangement, Joanne learns that her mother is dying. Compelled to reconnect, Joanne visits with her, unearthing a trove of devastating secrets.

A daring post-apocalyptic novel from a powerful rising literary voiceWith winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south. Soon after, others follow.The community leadership loses its grip on powe...

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Perfect listening for fans of Ruth Ware and Alex Michaelides.They share a house.And all its secrets . . .When a young woman is discovered brutally murdered in her own apartment, with an intricate pattern of lines carved into her face, Copenhagen police detectives Jeppe Korner and Anette Werner are assigned to the case.They quickly establish a link between the victim, Julie Stender, and her complex landlady, E...

A profoundly moving exploration of our capacity to heal one another.Ellie and Eric Nyland have moved their two sons back to Eric’s childhood farmhouse, hoping for a fresh start. But there’s no denying it, their family is falling apart, each one of them isolated by private sorrows, stresses, and missed signals. With every passing day, Ellie’s hopes are buried deeper in the harsh winter snows.When Eric finds Hannah Finch, the girl across the road, wandering a...

2021 CANADA READS FINALISTLonglisted for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller PrizeAn intergenerational saga about three Nigerian women: a novel about food, family, and forgiveness.Butter Honey Pig Bread is a story of choices and their consequences, of motherhood, of the malleable line between the spirit and the mind, of finding new homes and mending old ones, of voracious appetites, of queer love, of friendship, fai...