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?A rich man and a poor man are found dead of gunshot wounds outside a seedy bar on Barrington Street in Halifax. The police declare it a murder-suicide, but bluesman/lawyer Monty Collins hired to represent the victims families suspects its a double murder. The case gets complicated when the police link the gun to the suspicious death...

?Jake Morgan just cant seem to win. In Drawing Dead, the Las Vegas poker dealer and ex-cop is dealt a hand by his casino boss and forced to play. A beautiful high roller, sick of her husband, takes a prescription of gambling and gamboling in Vegas to cure herself. She finds her medicine Morgan. He reluctantly plays hotel gigolo, and ends up in...

Shortlisted for the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction, 2011 By having Normie tell the story, Arthur Ellis Awardwinning Emery allows readers to walk beside the girl as she deals with her second sight, the abuse of other children, and the anguish she feels when the peace of her home life is threatened. Not since Robert K. Tannenbaum's Lucy...

A MysteryLethal Rage follows the journey of Jack Warren, a young Toronto police officer, as he enters the dangerous streets of downtowns 51 Division. Accustomed to the white-bread policing of his previous division, Jack is staggered when he first arrives at his new job. No TV show or movie prepared him for the reality of 51, where the officers...

The High had a couple of hit songs in the late 70s and now theyre back playing the nostalgia circuit at casinos. The bass player, Barry, and the lead singer, Cliff, have found a way to make the tour worthwhile: rob the drug dealers and the shylocks that work every casino. Their old manager, Frank, now works one of their tour stops, and the guys...

Bennett demonstrates a real talent for evoking the affectless, indulgent eccentricities of the surpassingly (and perpetually) wealthy . . . Bennett manages it all deftly. He can weave a tale and has the chops to keep it all in a literary vein . . . this is a good book with a crackerjack ending. The Globe and Mail Bennetts storytelling is...