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A Mighty Fall Detective Margie “Parks” Pat almost misses the days when all her victims were pulled from the water. This time, the body lies at the base of a seventy-meter cliff. At first glance, it looks like a tragic fall—but the medical examiner’s report tells a different story. As Parks digs deeper, she discovers that this tight-knit community hides more secrets than anyone wants to admit. Every answer only raises new questions, and someone is willing to do whatever it takes to keep the truth buried. Tropes You’ll Love: small-town secrets, clever detective work, a suspicious ...

Terrorists obtain a nuclear bomb ...and it’s heading for America. Green Beret operative George Ferrar faces his nemesis in a dark cave in Afghanistan…then learns that a loose nuke is heading to America's heartland. But who will believe him? Everybody from the CIA to the FBI to Congress thinks he has turned against America. Ferrar is resourceful, knowledgeable, and deadly, but must take his game to a whole new level to stay alive, track down the bomb, and save the nation. He races against time as the bomb slips through the hands of numerous countries, from Pakistan to Bahrain to Canada ...

The fifth book in the Canadian Winters series. Follow Danny Turner's adventures in Canada and other countries.

Back in the long ago nineties, Rachel Walsh was a mess. But a spell in rehab transformed everything. Life became very good, very quickly. These days, Rachel has love, family, a great job as an addiction counsellor, she even gardens. Her only bad habit is a fondness for expensive sneakers. But with the sudden reappearance of a man she'd once loved, her life wobbles. She'd thought she was settled. Fixed forever. Is she about to discover that no matter what our age, everything can change? Is it time to think again, Rachel?

When your first day in a new city starts with murder, there’s no easing in slowly. Margie Patenaude is brand new to Calgary—still helping her daughter settle into school—when she’s called to her very first crime scene. The murder is brutal. The setting? One of Calgary’s most beautiful parks. With a killer loose in the city’s green spaces, park-goers don’t feel safe, and Margie doesn’t have time to win over her skeptical coworkers before she proves she belongs on this team. Margie is Métis, tough, and determined to prove she’s more than just a “diversity hire.” To ...

Sitting on a Deadly Secret A body on a park bench looks peaceful—too peaceful. Detective Margie “Parks Pat” Patenaude quickly realizes the woman didn’t die there. She was posed. Now Margie must untangle the motive behind this chilling display and track down a killer who is sending a message. The deeper she digs, the closer the case cuts to home, testing both her investigative skills and her personal strength. Some secrets refuse to stay buried, and Margie will have to face them head-on before another life is lost. Tropes You’ll Love: a suspiciously staged crime scene, clever ...

We were introduced to Ranger Daniel Turner in book one of this series when he left England to become a park ranger in the wilds of Canada. After his investigations into a serial killers activities in book one, in book two he finds other things and falls in love, marrying a local woman with 3 children. Now after the honeymoon is over he decides to fight his fear of flying and learn to fly a helicopter. One of his new family falls ill and Danny needs to move Heaven and Earth to save the sick child. Klondike Bill take on an angry bear to save the boy he is looking after and Danny comes face to...

When Daniel Turner was made redundant, he took a job as a park ranger in Canada, leaving behind England and his wife. What he did not know, until he got out there, was that the park held many disturbing secrets. He discovered that his predecessor had been murdered, and that when the thaw arrived after the previous winter; several missing young girls had been found naked and frozen to death. When a similar cycle of events started again, shortly after his arrival, Danny decided it was time to track down the person who was responsible for these perverted crimes, but finds himself locked up in ...

Seventeen-year-old Victoria Nash runs the household on her family's peach farm in the small ranch town of Iola, Colorado—the sole surviving female in a family of troubled men. Wilson Moon is a young drifter with a mysterious past, displaced from his tribal land but determined to live as he chooses. Victoria's chance encounter with Wil on a street corner profoundly alters both of their young lives, igniting as much passion as danger. When tragedy strikes, Victoria leaves the only life she has ever known, fleeing into the nearby mountains.

A Wake-Up Call for Parks Pat Detective Margie “Parks” Pat is back—and this Canada Day, she lands a case she never expected. A body in the water was initially thought to be an accidental drowning, but the autopsy says otherwise. With no witnesses and a city preparing for Calgary Stampede tourists and visiting dignitaries, Parks races against time to uncover the truth. The homicide squad wants the investigation closed fast, but Parks won’t rest until justice is served. Tropes You’ll Love: clever detective work, small-town police procedural, deadly secrets, a race against the clock, ...

A Killer Bridge? Be careful what you wish for. City Hall wanted Samuel Keller’s death to be anything but another “accident” in Confederation Park. Too many tragedies had cast a shadow there already. But when Detective Margie “Parks Pat” Patenaude takes the case, she finds more than City Hall bargained for—evidence of murder. Sometimes an accident is just an accident. But sometimes it’s not. And Parks will have to sift through secrets, lies, and pressure from above to uncover the truth before the killer slips away. Tropes You’ll Love: suspicious “accident,” political ...

Derailment of Justice Detective Margie “Parks Pat” Patenaude didn’t expect her walk with Stella to end at a crime scene. A homeless man’s body at the below-grade pedestrian crossing looks like a tragic accident—until the details stop making sense. The victim isn’t who he first appeared to be. And that’s only the beginning. The deeper Parks digs, the more she uncovers a web of deception, prejudice, and hidden truths. This case will test her instincts, her patience, and her resolve to see justice served. Tropes You’ll Love: suspicious “accident,” hidden identity, social ...

A Dam Violent Scene Detective Margie “Parks Pat” Patenaude is called to the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary—an idyllic natural refuge disturbed by a grisly discovery. A man lies dead near the water, his body seemingly a casualty of beaver activity. Beavers may be territorial, even dangerous, but something about this death doesn’t add up. Parks trusts her instincts, and they tell her this is no accident of nature. Beneath the peaceful surface of the sanctuary lies a much darker truth—and a killer who thinks they’ve hidden their crime. Tropes You’ll Love: suspicious “accident,” ...

A Chilling Death When a woman plunges through the ice into dark, murky waters, everyone assumes it was a tragic accident. Detective Margie “Parks Pat” Patenaude isn’t so sure. Something about Julia’s death doesn’t add up—and as Christmas approaches, Parks is determined to uncover the final clue that will reveal a killer with ice in his veins. What begins as a winter tragedy soon spirals into a chilling mystery that will push Parks to her limits, testing both her instincts and her resolve. Tropes You’ll Love: a suspicious winter accident, bone-chilling atmosphere, clever ...

Death by Misadventure? It’s Parade Day, and Margie would have thought that any trouble would have centered around drinking and motor vehicles. Or being trampled by horses. Or clowns. But the latest homicide investigation is nowhere near the parade route, but on the outskirts of town. And the culprit appears to be a tiny boat. Why do so many deaths in parks involve water? Parks Pat must navigate her fear, follow the clues, and untangle a growing list of suspects before another tragedy strikes. Tropes You’ll Love: clever detective, small-town police procedural, watery mysteries, ...

Every case leaves its mark. This one could cut too close. When Detective Margie Patenaude is called to another homicide in Calgary’s parks, the details feel chillingly familiar. The crime scene echoes the Fish Creek murder—but as Margie digs deeper, the evidence points somewhere far more personal. Her instincts tell her this case may be connected to her own life. Could her family be in danger? Or is stress clouding her judgment? With her colleagues watching closely, Margie can’t afford to get this wrong. Time is running out, and each step closer to the truth puts Margie further up a ...

Parks Pat Could Be in Over Her Head… Detective Margie “Parks” Pat has earned her reputation solving murders at Fish Creek and Glenbow Ranch—but Ralph Klein Park might be her toughest case yet. When a body turns up in the water, Parks is forced to confront her greatest fear: the very thing she must master to solve the crime. She’ll need to get over that if she is going to be able to investigate this case properly. Preferably before the rest of the department figures out her weakness. There is a killer out there to be caught. Somehow she’ll have to get past her block to find him. ...

Death by Coyote? An accidental death in Nose Hill Park is always tragic—but Detective Margie “Parks Pat” Patenaude isn’t convinced this one is what it seems. The scene screams misfortune, a victim in the wrong place at the wrong time. But Parks has learned to trust her instincts… and her gut says this isn’t an accident. The deeper she digs, the more unsettling the answers become. What started as a tragic misadventure unravels into something far darker—proof that even in the wide-open beauty of Calgary’s parks, danger can stalk unseen. Tropes You’ll Love: suspicious “...

There have been many Clayton Thomas-Mullers: The child who played with toy planes as an escape from domestic and sexual abuse, enduring the intergenerational trauma of Canada's residential school system; the angry youngster who defended himself with fists and sharp wit against racism and violence, at school and on the streets of Winnipeg and small-town British Columbia; the tough teenager who, at 17, managed a drug house run by members of his family, and slipped in and out of juvie, operating in a world of violence and pain.

The child of South-Asian migrants, Kazim Ali was born in London, lived as a child in the cities and small towns of Manitoba, and made a life in the United States. As a man passing through disparate homes, he has never felt he belonged to a place. And yet, one day, he finds himself thinking of Jenpeg, a community thrown up around the building of a hydroelectric dam on the Nelson River, where he once lived for several years as a child. Does the town still exist, he wonders? Is the dam still operational?