Whether you enjoy cozies, noirs, police procedurals, whodunnits, or lighthearted mysteries, there's something for everyone in this terrific Christmas-themed collection by twelve of Canada's finest mystery authors! An OPP officer investigates a John Doe dressed like Santa in July. A Toronto woman traces a mall Santa to the Caribbean. A woman's body is found in an isolated part of Cape Breton. A graduate student helps CSIS trace the source of a death caused by listeria. An aging singer disco...

When conman Ray Carver botches a job in Texas and heads home to Toronto, he knows he has very bad men after him—what he doesn’t know is that the FBI wants him too.Ray Carver is a master at orchestrating multi-million-dollar fraud schemes, but he’s hit a bad patch, one that could get him killed. Back in his hometown of Toronto after barely surviving a bungled job in Texas, he sets out to pull off the biggest scam of his career so he can pay off his debt to a violent...

On a foggy summer night, eleven people--ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter--depart Martha's Vineyard on a private jet headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the plane plunges into the ocean. The only survivors are the painter Scott Burroughs and a four-year-old boy, who is now the last remaining member of an immensely wealthy and powerful media mogul's family.Was it by chance that so many influential people perished? Or was something more sin...

**“The plot twists will give you whiplash.” –**Washington PostRead the #1 New York Times bestselling thriller Invisible, then continue the series with Unsolved.FBI researcher Emmy Dockery is obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved cases. All she has are the newspaper clippings that wallpaper her bedroo...

A masterful twist on the serial killer novel from the award-winning author Lauren Beukes: the girl who wouldn't die hunts the killer who shouldn't exist.Harper Curtis is a killer who stepped out of the past. Kirby Mazrachi is the girl who was never meant to have a future. Kirby is the last shining girl, one of the bright young women, burning with potential, whose lives Harper is destined to snuff out after he stumbles on a House in Depression-era Chicago that opens...

Following serious threats made by an escaped serial killer against one of its agents, the FBI is forced to place Eleanor Perkins, a specialist in criminal behavioral analysis, in one of its witness protection programs. The young woman is sent to England, under the protection of Agent McGill, to live under a false identity in the upmarket town of Cobham.After five peaceful months living under their respective covers - she a writer, he a sports coach - Grace Bathgate, the neighbor wi...

"A new tough guy to root for . . . a hero who is as sharp with his wits, and his tongue, as he is with his fists." —Matt Hilton, bestselling author of the Joe Hunter novelsAfter a family of four is crucified and burned alive, Jake Boulder is determined to help out his best friend and sometime-employer, a private detective related to the victims. But as Boulder tries to track the heinous killer, a young woman is abducted and found dead—and Boulder realizes these murd...

Patience is a pawn in a dangerous game … one of life and death.Women are turning up dead at the hands of a serial killer in Drag Creek. Jagger knew the moment he glanced her way she is meant to be his. He'll do anything to have her on her knees begging him please.Even if it means spilling blood.Can Jagger save the only woman capable of taming his bad boy ways?*This hot to the point Roadhouse Tale features all new characters in the B...

"A deftly crafted novel of compelling complexity," this first book in the mystery series featuring cop therapist Dr. Dot Meyerhoff is "absorbing" ( Midwest Book Review).As her police department's newest hire, police psychologist Dot Meyerhoff has a lot to prove. Especially since everyone on a small-town force doesn't see any reason for a shrink on staff. So when the rookie cop commits suicide, everyone's looking to blame Dot—even Dot herself. Dot knew Ben ...

"Fans of Donald E. Westlake's Parker novels (written under his Richard Stark pseudonym) will be on familiar ground. . . . A very good entry in a very good series" ( Booklist).Wilson should have just walked away when three men came looking for a way to boost a valuable piece of art. The art came off the wall, the alarm screamed thief, and Wilson walked away clean. But it turned out that job was an interview for an even bigger heist. A dangerous man wants Wi...

The bestselling author of The Genesis Code and The Eighth Day now strikes his most harrowing chord, with a chilling novel that pushes suspense to nearly inhuman limits.As a television news correspondent, Alex Callahan has traveled to some of the most dangerous corners of the globe, covering famine, plague, and war. He’s seen more than his share of blood and death, and knows what it means to be afraid. But what he’s never known is the terror that grabs him when, on...

She's totally off limits…and she's also kind of mean. He wants her anyway.Doug Rogers has it all planned out. He just needs to teach summer school and one tiny class at the nearby university and his master's in education will be paid for. But he wasn't planning on Amy Peterson.The almost-nurse in his comp class seems mad at the world, and particularly mad at Doug. She's one class away from her nursing degree after five long years of hard work, and ...