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Not Safe After Dark, and Other Stories
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural
978-0-7710-7541-4 (0-7710-7541-3)
July 13, 2010 | $19.99
Excerpted from "Fan Mail"
The letter arrived one sunny Thursday morning in August, along with a Visa bill and a royalty statement. Dennis Quilley carried the mail out to the deck of his Beaches home, stopping by the kitchen on the way to pour himself a gin and tonic. He had already...
Written by Peter Robinson
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural
978-0-7710-7541-4 (0-7710-7541-3)
July 13, 2010 | $19.99
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Excerpted from "Fan Mail"
The letter arrived one sunny Thursday morning in August, along with a Visa bill and a royalty statement. Dennis Quilley carried the mail out to the deck of his Beaches home, stopping by the kitchen on the way to pour himself a gin and tonic. He had already...
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Death in Holy Orders
Trade Paperback | 544 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-40038-3 (0-307-40038-7)
June 29, 2010 | $19.95
book one
The Killing Sand
1.
It was Father Martin’s idea that I should write an account of how I found the body.
I asked, “You mean, as if I were writing a letter, telling it to a friend?”
Father Martin said, “Writing it down as if it were fiction, as if you were standing...
Written by P. D. James
Trade Paperback | 544 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-40038-3 (0-307-40038-7)
June 29, 2010 | $19.95
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book one
The Killing Sand
1.
It was Father Martin’s idea that I should write an account of how I found the body.
I asked, “You mean, as if I were writing a letter, telling it to a friend?”
Father Martin said, “Writing it down as if it were fiction, as if you were standing...
Shroud for a Nightingale
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction
978-0-307-39998-4 (0-307-39998-2)
June 29, 2010 | $19.95
Book One: Demonstration of Death
I
On the morning of the first murder Miss Muriel Beale, Inspector of Nurse Training Schools to the General Nursing Council, stirred into wakefulness soon after six o’clock and into a sluggish early morning awareness that it was Monday, 12th January, and the day of the John Carpendar...
Written by P. D. James
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction
978-0-307-39998-4 (0-307-39998-2)
June 29, 2010 | $19.95
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Book One: Demonstration of Death
I
On the morning of the first murder Miss Muriel Beale, Inspector of Nurse Training Schools to the General Nursing Council, stirred into wakefulness soon after six o’clock and into a sluggish early morning awareness that it was Monday, 12th January, and the day of the John Carpendar...
Unnatural Causes
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-40036-9 (0-307-40036-0)
June 29, 2010 | $19.95
Book One: Suffolk
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The corpse without hands lay in the bottom of a small sailing dinghy drifting just within sight of the Suffolk coast. It was the body of a middle-aged man, a dapper little cadaver, its shroud a dark pin-striped suit which fitted the narrow body as elegantly in death as...
Written by P. D. James
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-40036-9 (0-307-40036-0)
June 29, 2010 | $19.95
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Book One: Suffolk
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The corpse without hands lay in the bottom of a small sailing dinghy drifting just within sight of the Suffolk coast. It was the body of a middle-aged man, a dapper little cadaver, its shroud a dark pin-striped suit which fitted the narrow body as elegantly in death as...
The Price of Love and Other Stories
Trade Paperback | 328 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural
978-0-7710-7545-2 (0-7710-7545-6)
June 15, 2010 | $19.99
An excerpt from the new novella about DCI Alan Banks, Like A Virgin, one of three stories about Banks in The Price of Love.
In the soft light of the red-shaded bulb that hung over the centre of the room, the girl’s body looked serene. She could easily have been sleeping, Banks...
Written by Peter Robinson
Trade Paperback | 328 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural
978-0-7710-7545-2 (0-7710-7545-6)
June 15, 2010 | $19.99
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An excerpt from the new novella about DCI Alan Banks, Like A Virgin, one of three stories about Banks in The Price of Love.
In the soft light of the red-shaded bulb that hung over the centre of the room, the girl’s body looked serene. She could easily have been sleeping, Banks...
The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing
Hardcover | 352 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7710-3827-3 (0-7710-3827-5)
June 1, 2010 | $29.99
ONE
Ensconced on the back seat of his Ambassador with the windows rolled up and the air conditioning working full blast, Vish Puri kept a wary eye on the crack in the car’s windshield. It had started off as a chink – the work of a loose stone shot from the wheels...
Written by Tarquin Hall
Hardcover | 352 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7710-3827-3 (0-7710-3827-5)
June 1, 2010 | $29.99
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ONE
Ensconced on the back seat of his Ambassador with the windows rolled up and the air conditioning working full blast, Vish Puri kept a wary eye on the crack in the car’s windshield. It had started off as a chink – the work of a loose stone shot from the wheels...
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Short Squeeze
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-35730-4 (0-307-35730-9)
June 1, 2010 | $19.95
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I don’t know how to dress. It’s easier to just say, “Oh, you’re right— this skirt and blouse have no business being together on the same body. That’s what I get for dressing in the dark.”
I feel that way about my life in general. I know it doesn’t look very good...
Written by Chris Knopf
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-35730-4 (0-307-35730-9)
June 1, 2010 | $19.95
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I don’t know how to dress. It’s easier to just say, “Oh, you’re right— this skirt and blouse have no business being together on the same body. That’s what I get for dressing in the dark.”
I feel that way about my life in general. I know it doesn’t look very good...
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Truth
Hardcover | 400 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction
978-0-307-35885-1 (0-307-35885-2)
May 11, 2010 | $32.00
ON THE Westgate Bridge, behind them a flat in Altona, a dead woman, a girl really, dirty hair, dyed red, pale roots, she was stabbed too many times to count, stomach, chest, back, face. The child, male, two or three years old, his head was kicked. Blood everywhere. On the nylon...
Written by Peter Temple
Hardcover | 400 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction
978-0-307-35885-1 (0-307-35885-2)
May 11, 2010 | $32.00
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ON THE Westgate Bridge, behind them a flat in Altona, a dead woman, a girl really, dirty hair, dyed red, pale roots, she was stabbed too many times to count, stomach, chest, back, face. The child, male, two or three years old, his head was kicked. Blood everywhere. On the nylon...
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The Shadows in the Street
Hardcover | 384 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction
978-0-307-39912-0 (0-307-39912-5)
May 4, 2010 | $29.95
One
Leslie Blade stopped in the overhang of the college entrance to put up his umbrella.
Rain. Rain morning and evening since the beginning of the week.
He could drive to work, but it was only a couple of miles so he didn’t qualify for a college parking permit. He could get a bus...
Written by Susan Hill
Hardcover | 384 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction
978-0-307-39912-0 (0-307-39912-5)
May 4, 2010 | $29.95
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Leslie Blade stopped in the overhang of the college entrance to put up his umbrella.
Rain. Rain morning and evening since the beginning of the week.
He could drive to work, but it was only a couple of miles so he didn’t qualify for a college parking permit. He could get a bus...
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The Double Comfort Safari Club
Hardcover | 224 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction
978-0-676-97925-1 (0-676-97925-4)
April 20, 2010 | $29.95
Chapter One
YOU DO NOT CHANGE PEOPLE BY SHOUTING AT THEM
No car, thought Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni, that great mechanic, and good man. No car . . .
He paused. It was necessary, he felt, to order the mind when one was about to think something profound. And Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni was...
Written by Alexander Mccall Smith
Hardcover | 224 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction
978-0-676-97925-1 (0-676-97925-4)
April 20, 2010 | $29.95
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Chapter One
YOU DO NOT CHANGE PEOPLE BY SHOUTING AT THEM
No car, thought Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni, that great mechanic, and good man. No car . . .
He paused. It was necessary, he felt, to order the mind when one was about to think something profound. And Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni was...
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eBook and a
trade paperback.
