No Claim to Mercy: A Suburban Mystery

In recent years the wrongful convictions of Donald Marshall, David Milgaard, and Guy Paul Morin have captured newspaper headlines across the country. In No Claim to Mercy, journalist Derek Finkle examines the justice system responsible ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Kiss of the Fur Queen

By Tomson Highway

Kiss of the Fur Queen, Cree playwright/pianist Tomson Highway’s debut novel, is the story of champion dog-sled racer Abraham Okimasis and his sons Jeremiah, a pianist, and Gabriel, a dancer. As the brothers journey from ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Recipe for Bees

By Gail Anderson-Dargatz

It’s a true storyteller who can build a compelling tale from the 48-year marriage between a psychic beekeeper and a mild-mannered farmer in rural B.C. Gail Anderson-Dargatz is up to the challenge with a suspensefully ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Caesarea

By Tony Burgess

In Tony Burgess’s Caesarea, the final book in his Bewdley trilogy and the name of a fictional small Ontario town, strange things are happening. Caesarea’s figurehead mayor has recently been replaced by a dwarf doppelganger. ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ A Student of Weather

By Elizabeth Hay

Two sisters fell down the same well, and the well was Maurice Dove.” This line encapsulates the conflict in A Student of Weather, Ottawa writer Elizabeth Hay’s achingly good first novel. Beginning in the Prairie ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Enemy Women

By Paulette Jiles

In the last year of the American Civil War, young Adair Colley, the heroine of Enemy Women, sees her family’s farm in the Ozarks of Missouri burned, despite their attempts to remain neutral. Adair is ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Exile & the Sacred Travellers

By Marie-Clair Blais

There’s a tempation, once a writer becomes an icon, to publish anything they have written. Unfortunately, The Exile & the Sacred Travellers by Marie-Claire Blais gives in to that temptation. The book’s nine stories and ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Good Body

By Bill Gaston

Bob “Loose” Bonaduce returns to Fredericton, New Brunswick, to play on the same hockey team as his son, whom he abandoned 20 years ago. Loose, 40, is spurred on by his multiple sclerosis, which may ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Kidnap

By L. R. Wright

L.R. Wright’s 14th novel, Kidnap, touted as the first in a new series featuring RCMP Sergeant Edwina (Eddie) Henderson, is a low-key, low-energy, non-thriller.A middle-aged couple rent a secluded house near Sechelt on B.C.’s Sunshine ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Double Negative

By Leona Gom

Once upon a time a mystery was a mystery. Readers could count on a crime (hopefully, nothing too suggestive of real life), a handful of suspects, a crime-solver (typically an isolated fantasy figure), a few ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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