Thin Ice (30 page)

Birds of a Feather

A Jack Taggart Mystery

Don Easton

Lily Rae is on holiday in El Paso, Texas, when she's kidnapped by a Mexican drug cartel. El Paso borders on one of the most dangerous places in the world — Ciudad Juarez, Mexico — a city caught in the grip of a violent war between cartels. Her disappearance is investigated by undercover Mountie Jack Taggart, who discovers a Canadian link to the cartel and penetrates the organization. Taggart is sent to El Paso, where he is partnered with special U.S. Customs agent John Adams. Neither Taggart nor Adams knows they have been paired together for a secret purpose.

Although Taggart has strict orders to stay out of Juarez, his gut instinct tells him otherwise. The investigation seems to be going smoothly — until the cartel discovers his true identity. Practically torn from the headlines,
Birds of a Feather
will keep you on the edge of your seat and leave you questioning right and wrong.

Twilight Is Not Good for Maidens

A Holly Martin Mystery

Lou Allin

Corporal Holly Martin's small RCMP detachment on Vancouver Island is rocked by a midnight attack on a woman camping alone at picturesque French Beach. Then Holly's constable, Chipper Knox Singh, is accused of sexually assaulting a girl during a routine traffic stop and is removed from active duty. At another beach a girl is killed. An assailant is operating unseen in these dark, forested locations. The case breaks open when a third young woman is raped in broad daylight and gives a precise description of her assailant. Public outrage and harsh criticism of local law enforcement augment tensions in the frightened community, but as a mere corporal, Holly is kept on the periphery. She must assemble her own clues.

Presto Variations

A Ray Tate and Djuna Brown Mystery

Lee Lamothe

Detectives Ray Tate and Djuna Brown are back from a vacation in Paris — fraudulently funded by a stolen State Police credit card. While waiting to find out if they're going to be fired or jailed, the two are assigned to the Green Squad, a dead-end job shuffling paper and counting contraband money. But while interrogating a money smuggler, Tate and Brown uncover a massive currency stash they hope will keep them out of jail. Their target is drug trafficker Laszlo “Marko” Markowitz, who has millions in cocaine profits to be laundered and shipped into Canada.

As Tate and Brown try to penetrate the Markowitz organization, they uncover an underworld choking on its own profits and find a homicidal madman who has created the perfect blend of criminality and anarchy.

Pumpkin Eater

A Dan Sharp Mystery

Jeffrey Round

Following an anonymous tip, missing persons investigator Dan Sharp makes a grisly discovery in a burned-out slaughterhouse in Toronto's west end. It seems that someone is targeting known sex offenders whose names and identities were released on the Internet. When an iconic rock star contacts Dan to keep from becoming the next victim, things take a curious turn. Dan's search for a killer takes him underground in Toronto's broken social scene — a secret world of misfits and guerrilla activists living off the grid — where he hopes to find the key to the murders.

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Wilkshire, Nick, 1968-, author

Thin ice / Nick Wilkshire.

(Capital crime series)

Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-1-4597-1552-3 (pbk.).--ISBN 978-1-4597-1553-0 (pdf)

I. Title.

PS8645.I44T55 2014 C813'.6 C2014-901012-5

C2014-901013-3

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