Crime Fiction from Canada

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L. R. Wright (1995) A Touch of Panic (Karl Alberg Mysteries, No. 6)

A must-read for fans of pschological mysteries.

Joan Hall Hovey (2000) Nowhere To Hide.

Ellen Morgan, still recovering from the premature death of her husband, is devastated when her younger sister is brutally murdered. She challenges the killer on a TV show and sets in motion a hunt that will send chills up your spine. A frightning look into the mind of a serial killer.

L.R. Wright (2008) The Suspect (Karl Alberg Mysteries, No. 1)

The first Canadian novelist to win an Edgar award has crafted a disturbing small-town crime mystery with psychological depth.

Stef Penney (2008) The Tenderness of Wolves: A Novel.

Stef Penney's haunting debut casts the frigid isolation of Scottish immigrants living on the late 19th-century Canadian frontier. In this harsh, unforgiving environment a seventeen-year old boy disappears the same day his mother discovers the scalped body of his friend. The gripping story reveals a complex web of human desires, motivations, and relationships.

Kathy Reichs (2005) Monday Mourning. (A Tempe Brennan Novel)

It is not easy for forensic scientist Tempe Brennan to work with the chauvinist detectives Luc Claudel and Andrew Ryan, to whom she is sexually attracted. When the skeletons of three women are found in the basement of a pizzeria she suspects murder, while the detectives seem to be strangely indifferent. As a forensic anthropologist, Kathy Reichs knows what she is writing about.

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