After the suicide of an enigmatic thief, Jason follows a trail of clues leading to a collection of compositions by British composer Sir Edward Elgar — musical scores that the thief stole to order, and which Soho crimelord Arthur Braskey desperately wants back.Jason Davey, professional musician and amateur sleuth, never expected his fan meeting at The Shard to end in a devastating plunge. But when Marcus Merritt jumps to his death after handing Jason a program from ...

Falling in love across time was the easy part. Now Charlie and Shaun must decide whether to save a man's life — knowing the cost could be their own future together.“Kent combines time travel, mystery, and romance in a delightful sequel to Persistence of Memory that’s easily accessible for new readers.” —Publishers Weekly Starred ReviewIn Winona Kent’s novel Persistence of Memory, Charlie Lowe, a young widow in Stoneford, England, was accid...

Time travel was not among the accomplishments Charlie Lowe had anticipated — nor was persuading any sensible woman to marry a lecherous French count with aspirations in indoor plumbing.Charlie Lowe has two obsessions: saving the Stoneford Village Green from unscrupulous developers and researching her ancestor, Louis Augustus Duran, whose mysterious origins elude her.When a freak lightning strike and a rogue computer virus send her back to 1825, Charlie disc...

Forget The Love Boat. Jason Davey's week-long cruise to Alaska comes complete with a stalker, a fire, a faded actress with murder on her mind — and secrets about his own past he never saw coming.Musician Jason Davey ran away to sea after the death of his wife, finding work as a contract entertainer aboard the cruise ship Star Sapphire. But when faces from his past come aboard as passengers, Jason’s routine weeklong trip to Alaska becomes anything ...

His father played a spy on TV. The operative word is "played."Robin Harris grew up watching the 60's spy show Spy Squad, starring his dad, Evan Harris. So when the police deem the mysterious death of a Russian woman with rainbow-colored hair a suicide, Robin knows better.Robin soon finds himself in the middle of an awesome plot that seems to be lifted directly from one of his father’s Spy Squad episodes, and, as he discovers, his father re...

A pirate radio station. A dead DJ. A suspected double agent. Evan Harris has seen storylines like this before — on his own TV show.It's 1991... two years after the fall of the Berlin Wall... and the spyworld is facing a radical shakeup. So, what do a pirate radio station, a long lost diary, a suspected double agent and the sudden death of Britain's best loved breakfast show DJ have to do with the London Underground and mysterious soundwaves underneath the Fitzroy T...

"…a pitch-perfect bedside anthology." —Loreth Anne White, bestselling author of The Patient's SecretThis second anthology from members of Sisters in Crime—Canada West presents sixteen stories of women we recognize through their experiences … and ours.They vary in tone from the lighthearted wit with which the librarian in "The Fair Rosamund and the Summer of Love" shows her husband the folly of his crush on another woman, to the dark and deeply dist...

"... all the cunning, intrigue, dark humour and darker deeds anyone could want, perfectly plotted and sublimely rendered!" —Iona Whishaw, award-winning author of the Lane Winslow MysteriesThe deadly games people play are on full display in fifteen short stories in the third anthology from Sisters in Crime—Canada West.Old friends feature in several, such as "On The Internet Nobody Knows You're a Dog," where a musician turns PI to track down a stalke...

Includes "Cold Wave" by Marcelle Dubé, winner of the Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence for Best Short Story.Western Canada. A vast and varied land of hidden coastal islands and inlets, towering icy mountains, wind-tossed ranges and wheat fields, and cold lakes that keep their secrets. These are its stories.In "The Potluck Brigade," visit a dying Alberta town and a senior citizen trying to cope with murder as well as her own failing mind. ...

"Kent Stever takes you by the hand for a stroll back in time to a simpler place, one sprinkled with nostalgia and fond remembrance. His writing conjures up images so exact you'll swear you're sitting at a soda fountain sipping on a cherry Coke while he tells his tales." —Mike Nistler, Publisher, Minnesota Moments Magazine

Four mysteries. Four musical sets. One reluctant sleuth.Jason Davey’s a working musician — the kind of man who'd rather worry about his next gig than his next mystery. But trouble has a way of finding him, whether he's at sea, backstage in Soho, deep in Canada's frozen north, or squeezed into a cramped South London flat listening to a story that doesn't quite add up.In this mystery short story collection, Canadian author Winona Kent brings together four tal...

Plots, plans, and perfidy — The characters in these four short stories take matters in their own hands when life presents them with their last shot.From Alice Bienia comes a story about an aging mystery writer about to be dropped by her publisher, and under pressure from her agent to write something brilliant. When an opportunity presents itself, she must decide how far she’s willing to go for a killer plot.Dwayne Clayden t...