Cold Canadian Crime takes us on a cross country tour of murder, abduction, blackmail, and the many faces of retribution. We find ourselves dealing with family secrets and lies in present day Toronto, in a raging blizzard on a Quebec highway, pursuing a cold case with an amateur sleuth in Vancouver, and on a historic manhunt in the high Arctic in the 1930s.
In an assortment ranging from gritty noir to dark humour, with flashes of ingenuity and healthy doses of moral ambiguity, these 21 tales from Canadian crime writers are perfect for curling up with on a chilly winter night, or reading on the beach on a hot summer's day.
Features stories by K.L. Abrahamson, Pam Barnsley, Thom Bennett, Susan Calder, Melodie Campbell, Brenda Chapman, Lisa de Nikolits, Elizabeth Elwood, Alice Fitzpatrick, Delee Fromm, R.M. Greenaway, Blair Keetch, Sylvia Maultash Warsh, Rosemary Mccracken, donalee Moulton, Lynne murphy, C. S. O’cinneide, Lorna Poplak, David A. Poulsen, Gabrielle St. George, Hope Thomson, with foreword by Linwood Barclay and introduction by William Deverell
Format:
Kindle Edition
Pages:
332 pages
Publication:
2022
Publisher:
Crime Writers of Canada
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0969682565
ISBN13:
9780969682561
kindle Asin:
Cold Canadian Crime: 21 Stories of Mystery & Suspense
Cold Canadian Crime takes us on a cross country tour of murder, abduction, blackmail, and the many faces of retribution. We find ourselves dealing with family secrets and lies in present day Toronto, in a raging blizzard on a Quebec highway, pursuing a cold case with an amateur sleuth in Vancouver, and on a historic manhunt in the high Arctic in the 1930s.
In an assortment ranging from gritty noir to dark humour, with flashes of ingenuity and healthy doses of moral ambiguity, these 21 tales from Canadian crime writers are perfect for curling up with on a chilly winter night, or reading on the beach on a hot summer's day.
Features stories by K.L. Abrahamson, Pam Barnsley, Thom Bennett, Susan Calder, Melodie Campbell, Brenda Chapman, Lisa de Nikolits, Elizabeth Elwood, Alice Fitzpatrick, Delee Fromm, R.M. Greenaway, Blair Keetch, Sylvia Maultash Warsh, Rosemary Mccracken, donalee Moulton, Lynne murphy, C. S. O’cinneide, Lorna Poplak, David A. Poulsen, Gabrielle St. George, Hope Thomson, with foreword by Linwood Barclay and introduction by William Deverell