Deadly Accusations (35 page)

by
Cathy Ace

The Corpse with the Silver Tongue
is a classic whodunnit featuring Welsh-Canadian Professor Cait Morgan—a criminologist who specializes in profiling victims, when she's not over-indulging in gourmet food. The corpse of a man seemingly admired, but certainly feared; a group of suspects, each with a possible motive for murder; the glamour of the South of France, where hatred simmers in the heat; the disappearance of an ancient gold collar that is said to be cursed. These are the ingredients for a Nicoise salad of death, secrets, and lies. Will Cait work out which of the victim's dinner guests killed him before she, too, becomes a victim of a murderer who is driven by a surprising, and disturbing, motive?

The Corpse with the Silver Tongue
is the first in the delicious new Cait Morgan mystery series.

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by
Stephen Legault

In
The Vanishing Track
, the third book in the Cole Blackwater mystery series, Cole must face some of the darkest elements of the human paradox, while trying to put the past behind him and move on with his life.

When his best friend, and advocate for the homeless, Denman Scott asks him to stop the demolition of the Lucky Strike—a once majestic hotel in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside that is now home to nearly three hundred of the city's least fortunate residents—Cole discovers that homeless people in the area have been disappearing without a trace.

Working with
Vancouver Sun
reporter Nancy Webber and street nurse Juliet Rose, Cole and Denman venture into the dark corners of the city's underworld, and into political corruption at City Hall, to unravel the mystery behind the Lucky Strike—before any more of the Eastside's homeless find themselves on the vanishing track.

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by
Stephen Legault

It's the winter of 1884, and five hundred Canadian Pacific Rail workers have halted their push through the Rockies at Holt City, an isolated shantytown in the shadow of the Continental Divide. The men are tired and cold, and patience is as scarce as the rationed food. Then, Deek Penner, a CPR section boss, is brutally murdered at the end of the track. His body is found frozen on the banks of the Bow River.

Durrant Wallace, a veteran of the celebrated March West by the North West Mounted Police a decade earlier, is returned to active duty to investigate the murder. Durrant lost his leg in a gun battle with whiskey traders three years previous, and he struggles with being a Mounted Police officer who cannot ride. When Durrant arrives, Holt City is ripe with possible suspects: illegal whiskey smugglers, spies for rival railways, explosives dealers and a mysterious Member of Parliament who insists on getting his meddling fingers into everybody else's business. Durrant must use his cunning and determination to discover to identify the killer before he finds his next victim and derails the great Canadian national dream in the process.

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Bruce Burrows

Danny Swanson, Department of Fisheries and Oceans employee and ex-fisherman, isn't exactly upset when he's reassigned from a desk job in Ottawa to an at-sea job on the West Coast. His superiors think they're punishing him for his indiscretions, but Danny is pleased to be back on the Pacific, reconnecting with his old fishing buddies. Revisiting his past life, though, is trolling up some old memories, including a troubling incident from ten years ago, when Danny and his crew pulled up a deformed fish. It was young Billy who decided to bring the odd creature to the DFO in Vancouver for examination. Billy and the fish were never seen again. Now, Danny's buddy is on his mind when he stumbles across a photo of the fish in the DFO databases, and suddenly, Danny can't let Billy's disappearance get swept under the rug.

With the help of RCMP Sergeant Louise Karavchuk, Danny starts hauling old histories to the surface and delving into what he starts to believe may be a massive conspiracy. Who can Danny trust in his search for the truth? The organized, well-dressed officials of the DFO? Or his somewhat rowdy and rough-around-the-edges fishing buddies from the past?

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