Boss of the Namko Drive
Can$14.95
0-88894-494-2
Author-Paul St. Pierre
Written for the younger readers, Paul St. Pierre's, sharp and witty style is truly entertaining no matter what age the reader.
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Breaking Smith's Quarter Horse
Can$16.95
0-88894-431-4
Author-Paul St. Pierre
To read about Smith and his cronies, is to read about a time and place that no longer exist. This is now a best-selling Canadian classic.
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Death in a Family Way
Can$12.95
Author-Gwendolyn Southin
At age fifty, Margaret Spencer's empty nest and empty marriage prompt her to answer an ad for part-time office work at the office of private investigator Nat Southby. Suddenly, she is deep in the most unlikely of adventures for a woman in 1950s Vancouver, helping him with a case of missing young women involved in a shady business ring.
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Death on a Short Leash
Can$12.95
Author-Gwendolyn Southin
Back in Vancouver, Maggie and Nat begin their next adventure at a cranberry bog where a veterinarian's assistant has been found dead. A long trail with a faint scent to follow, their victim's double-life leads them to a strip club, a bogus religious sect, and a nursing home with a dark underlying secret.
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In the Shadow of Death
Can$12.95
Author-Gwendolyn Southin
Just one year later, Margaret is coming into her own as an investigator, after leaving the comforts of her Kerrisdale home and her inattentive husband, a corporate lawyer. Living in trendy and bustling Kitsilano with Nat Southby, her newfound happiness is undercut by her family's pleadings to return home.
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Old Bones: a mystery
Can$12.95
Author - Ron Chudley
In a remote British Columbia lake, an ancient auto wreck is discovered. Inside are the half-century-old remains of a traveller, long lost and long forgotten. While there are few clues to the identity of the corpse, the discovery sets in motion a singular chain of events that dramatically affects a small and disparate group of people, each unknown to the others but connected by history to the dead driver.
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Old Stones
Can$19.95
0-920663-85-0
Author-A. S. Penne
An unsentimental look at a war-time union, Old Stones is an inquiry into a woman’s two very different selves, as well as a candid examination of a cultural divide.
This is a work of creative non-fiction.
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Seaweed Under Water
Can$12.95
Author- Stanley Evans
I knew that if I dived deep enough, the bullets would lose their killing velocity. I heard, or sensed, another explosive blast. My left arm was useless. I kept diving, down and out into deeper, blacker water …
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Seaweed on the Rocks
Can$12.95
Author-Stanley Evans
In this fourth mystery of the Seaweed series, Victoria neighbourhood cop Silas Seaweed is as always sensitive to his Coast Salish culture, but when he's confronted by a ten-foot-tall bear on a marsh on the city's outskirts, he suspects that this is no creature from the unknown world but someone out to con him. And Silas is right, but his attempts to unmask the bear lead him into a labyrinth of blackmail and murder. Along the way he investigates a homeless people's sit-in at Beacon Hill Park, a burglary in the office of hypnotherapist Dr. Lawrence Trew, and the barely legal world of small-time hood Titus Silverman. And whenever Silas is not busy finding corpses, he's on the lookout for a missing artist and two eight-year-old runaways.
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Seaweed on the Street
Can$12.95
Author - Stan Evans
Pretensions, conspiracy, lies … all play a part in this riveting book that kicks off TouchWood Editions’ new mystery series featuring Coast Salish investigator Silas Seaweed.
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Smith and Other Events
Can$22.95
0-88894-457-8
Author-Paul St. Pierre
This tells the tales of many unforgettable characters of the Chilcotin. Read about the heart and soul of the true west.
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Stolen
Can$12.95
Author- Ron Chudley
"The sound of the river, ever-present, had finally intruded on his consciousness. If Nate was playing by himself outside, that damn river was too close for comfort. Instantly forgetting everything else, John hurried to the door, pushed it right open, stepped to the edge."
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The Frog Lake Massacre
Can$18.95
Author-Bill Gallaher
In the spring of 1884, an adventurous young man packs his bags in Victoria, BC, and heads for the prairies, looking for a new life and hoping to get involved in an Indian "war." Instead, he lucks into an exciting job in the fur trade and meets and befriends many of the great chiefs of the Cree nation, such as Poundmaker and Big Bear, and ends up between a bullet and a target when the North-West Rebellion erupts. After witnessing the historic Frog Lake Massacre and the murder of his friends, Jack is captured by the Cree warriors and, later, guides the famous Inspector Sam Steele on the hunt for Cree Chief Big Bear.
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The Promise: Love, Loyalty & the Lure of Gold - BACK IN PRINT
Can$18.95
Author-Bill Gallaher
It was 1862 and the Cariboo Gold Rush was in full swing. Sophia Cameron, the Beauty of
Barkerville, lay dying of typhoid when her husband, John "Cariboo" Cameron, made one last promise to his fading young wife.
The Promise is a compelling story of a great love and an epic struggle to honour a dying wife's final request: to take her body home to eastern Canada.
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