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Fiction: Novels

Strange Affair

By Peter Robinson

Strange Affair, the 15th novel from Toronto crime writer Peter Robinson to feature Inspector Alan Banks, begins four months after the climactic events of Playing with Fire. With his cottage, and his life, in ashes, ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sushi Daze

By Rob Payne

In Rob Payne’s latest novel, protagonist Jamie Schmidt is a 30-year-old hipster Torontonian with a McJob in radio who fears his life has jumped the shark. After George Harrison appears to him in a dream ... Read More »

February 28, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Memory Book

By Howard Engel

Canada’s favourite soft-boiled detective, Benny Cooperman, is a little worse for wear in Memory Book, the 11th instalment of this popular series.But fans will be pleased that he has been able to return at all ... Read More »

February 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Foozlers

By Tom Osborne

Tom Osborne provides a brief glossary at the end of his first novel, Foozlers. One might expect to find the meaning of foozler here, but it’s not necessary. Like the acrobatic adjectives that Tom Wolfe ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Busted Flush

By Brad Smith

Dock Bass is a straight-talking man’s man from upstate New York who likes carpentry and cold beer, but does not suffer fools. He gets himself fired from his job as a realtor. He abandons his ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels