Maureen Jennings
MAUREEN JENNINGS was born in England, and emigrated to Canada as a young woman. Her first mystery series, set in Victorian-era Toronto, featured Detective William Murdoch. The first Murdoch mystery, Except the Dying, was shortlisted for both the Anthony and the Arthur Ellis Best First Novel Awards. It was followed by Under the Dragon’s Tale, Poor Tom Is Cold, Let Loose the Dogs (shortlisted for the Anthony Best Historical Mystery Award), Night’s Child (shortlisted for the Arthur Ellis Award, the Bruce Alexander Historical Mystery Award, the Barry Award, and the Macavity Historical Mystery Award), A Journeyman to Grief (nominated for the Arthur Ellis Award), and Vices of My Blood.
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Trade Paperback | 448 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7710-4679-7 (0-7710-4679-0)
September 3, 2013 | $17.95
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In 1858, a young woman on her honeymoon is abducted and taken across the border from Canada and sold into slavery. Thirty-eight years later, the owner of one of Toronto's livery stables is found dead. Then a second man is murdered, his body strangely tied as if he were a...
Trade Paperback | 480 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction
978-0-7710-4678-0 (0-7710-4678-2)
September 3, 2013 | $17.95
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The Reverend Charles Howard once sat in judgment of Toronto's poor and assessed their applications for the workhouse. Now he has been found dead: stabbed, beaten, and robbed of his watch and boots. Is it simply a case of burglary gone wrong, or has one of the unfortunates the reverend turned...
Trade Paperback | 512 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural
978-0-7710-4676-6 (0-7710-4676-6)
February 26, 2013 | $17.99
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Gorgeous new TV tie-in edition of Maureen Jennings's immensely popular Inspector Murdoch series, basis for the long-running The Murdoch Mysteries, now on CBC.
In Let Loose the Dogs, Detective Murdoch's life and work overlap tragically. His sister, who long ago fled to a convent to escape their abusive father, is on her...
Trade Paperback | 384 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7710-4677-3 (0-7710-4677-4)
February 26, 2013 | $17.99
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Gorgeous new TV tie-in edition of Maureen Jennings's immensely popular Inspector Murdoch series, basis for the long-running The Murdoch Mysteries, now on CBC.
After thirteen-year-old Agnes Fisher faints at school, her teacher, the young and idealistic Amy Slade, is shocked to discover photographs in the girl's desk. One is of Agnes in...
eBook | 416 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7710-4314-7 (0-7710-4314-7)
November 6, 2012 | $9.99
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November, 1940. Tom Tyler, Detective Inspector of the small Shropshire town of Whitchurch, is a troubled man. The preceding summer had been a dark one for Britain, and even darker for Tom's own family and personal life. So he jumps at the opportunity to help out in the nearby city of Birmingham...
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7710-4313-0 (0-7710-4313-9)
November 6, 2012 | $24.99
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November, 1940. Tom Tyler, Detective Inspector of the small Shropshire town of Whitchurch, is a troubled man. The preceding summer had been a dark one for Britain, and even darker for Tom's own family and personal life. So he jumps at the opportunity to help out in the nearby city of Birmingham...
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7710-4328-4 (0-7710-4328-7)
September 25, 2012 | $17.99
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In 1940, England is desperate and fearful. The threat of a German invasion is real, and many German Nationals are interned in camps across the country. One such is on Prees Heath, near the small town of Whitchurch in Shropshire, where Tom Tyler is the sole detective inspector.
When a young women...
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural
978-0-7710-4302-4 (0-7710-4302-3)
September 18, 2012 | $17.99
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In the cold Toronto winter of 1895, the unclad body of a servant girl is found frozen in a deserted laneway. The young victim was pregnant when she died. Was her death an attempt to cover up a scandal in one of the city's influential families? Detective William Murdoch quickly finds...
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7710-9595-5 (0-7710-9595-3)
September 18, 2012 | $17.99
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A police constable named Oliver Wicken has apparently committed suicide, leaving his mother and his invalid sister to fend for themselves. The evidence, according to the coroner, is irrefutable. Wicken was shot in the temple with his own revolver and a farewell note has been found beside his body. But new...
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural
978-0-7710-9597-9 (0-7710-9597-X)
September 18, 2012 | $17.99
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Desperate women, rich and poor, come to her in need of help - and discretion. Dolly Merishaw is a midwife and an abortionist in Victorian Toronto, but although she keeps quiet about her clients' condition, her contempt and greed leaves them resentful and angry. So it comes as no surprise when...
eBook | pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7710-4327-7 (0-7710-4327-9)
August 2, 2011 | $9.99
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The creator of the acclaimed Detective Murdoch Mysteries turns her exceptional storytelling skills to a murder mystery set in rural Shropshire, England, in the darkest days of the Second World War.
Following the disastrous retreat of the British army from Dunkirk in 1940, England is plunged into a state of fear. The...
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7710-4325-3 (0-7710-4325-2)
August 2, 2011 | $24.99
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The creator of the acclaimed Detective Murdoch Mysteries turns her exceptional storytelling skills to a murder mystery set in rural Shropshire, England, in the darkest days of the Second World War.
Following the disastrous retreat of the British army from Dunkirk in 1940, England is plunged into a state of fear. The...
Trade Paperback | 448 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7710-4340-6 (0-7710-4340-6)
May 18, 2010 | $21.00
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The abduction of a young woman in 1858 ends in Toronto thirty-eight years later — in murder.
In 1858, a young woman on her honeymoon is forcibly abducted and taken across the border from Canada and sold into slavery. Thirty-eight years later, Detective Murdoch is working on a murder case that will...
Trade Paperback | 384 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7710-4334-5 (0-7710-4334-1)
May 18, 2010 | $21.00
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After thirteen-year-old Agnes Fisher faints at school, her teacher, the young and still idealistic Amy Slade, is shocked to discover in the girl’s desk two stereoscopic photographs. One is of a dead baby in its cradle, and on the back Agnes has scrawled a terrible message. Worse, the other photograph is...
Trade Paperback | 472 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction
978-0-7710-4332-1 (0-7710-4332-5)
May 18, 2010 | $21.00
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The compelling new novel by Canada’s answer to Anne Perry.
In his forties, the Reverend Charles Howard still cut an impressive figure. A married Presbyterian minister in Toronto’s east end, Howard was popular with the congregation that elected him, especially with the ladies, and most particularly with Miss Sarah Dignam. Respected...
