As inquisitive as Eloise Bridgerton, as lonely as Enola Holmes, and as sharp a sleuth as Lady Holmes herself, Miss Maddie Hatter uses her fashion reporting as cover for investigative journalism. Armed with her wits, her parasol, and her clockwork bird, this amateur detective hunts a legendary gemstone, trails a cunning con-woman from Egypt to Europe & beyond, and goes undercover against a penny-pinching airship heiress who never lets a good grudge die.“*A jewel of a story filled wi...

“Great characters, vivid descriptions, fashion, food and intrigue.”“Fabulous 3rd in a series that’s already collected 2 Aurora nominations & an ‘Alberta Book of the Year’ win.”A gig at an exclusive Venetian costume house gives fashion writer Maddie first peek at fabulous Carnevale costumes & a chance to interview a secretive inventor. But foreign spies, kidnappings, & 2 old enemies steer her trip into a desperate moonlight dash through the fabled city’s canals.“Great charac...

"... 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...

2018 Alberta Book of the YearPrix Aurora FinalistFoiling the kidnapping of an industrial heiress lands Maddie an undercover bodyguard job in a Gilded Age NYC mansion. As rival powers scheme to steal the homeowner's fabulous one-of-a-kind clockwork gauge, a man from Maddie’s murky past arrives as a feted guest. Is he an ally, an enemy, or the mastermind behind the whole dastardly plot?***“Spirited heroines, secret identities, engaging orphans, dueling...

In a time when supernatural beings used humans as playthings, Shira fights to survive. Guardian warriors can only take the promised bride of a patriarch’s son so far, until she must struggle on alone. But is she alone? Plagued by painful memories of her mother’s death, Shira is now challenged to face a dangerous and uncertain future. A future that offers little more than abandonment, slavery and worse, her own doubts—but face it she must. There is a place, one place that is not governed by...