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Elizabeth J. Duncan
author of
The Cold Light of Mourning
($27.95)
The picturesque North Wales market town of Llanelen is shocked when Meg Wynne Thompson, a self-made beauty who has turned out to be something of an unpopular bride, goes missing on her wedding day…and turns up dead. The last person believed to have seen her is manicurist Penny Brannigan, an expatriate Canadian who has lived in North Wales for almost twenty-five years. When Penny notices that something is not quite right at the funeral of her dearest friend, she becomes emotionally invested in the case, and sets out to investigate.
It seems that several people, including the bride’s drunken, abusive father, had reasons to wish Meg dead, but when the trail leads to her groom’s home, an explosive secret will shake the small town.
With its bucolic Welsh setting and vivid, colorful characters, this mystery is sure to delight the most discerning of traditional-mystery fans.
AWARDS
The Cold Light of Mourning has won both the William F. Deeck-Malice Domestic Grant for unpublished writers and the St. Martin’s Press/Malice Domestic award for best first novel. Elizabeth is the first person to win both awards and the first Canadian to win either award.
Thursday, May 14, 2009,
6 to 7 p.m.
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Vicki Delany
author of
Gold Digger: A Klondike Mystery
($18.95)
It's the spring of 1898, and Dawson, Yukon Territory, is the most exciting town in North America. The great Klondike Gold Rush is in full swing and Fiona MacGillivray has crawled over the Chilkoot Pass determined to make her fortune as the owner of the Savoy dance hall. Provided, that is, that her twelve-year-old son, growing up much too fast for her liking; the former Glasgow street fighter who's now her business partner; a stern, handsome NWMP constable; an aging, love-struck, ex-boxing champion; a wild assortment of headstrong dancers, croupiers, gamblers, madams without hearts of gold, bar hangers-on, cheechakos and sourdoughs; and Fiona's own nimble-fingered past don’t get to her first. And then there’s the dead body on centre stage.
Vicki is the author of five other novels, three standalones and two, In the Shadow of the Glaciers ($20) and Valley of the Lost ($34.95), featuring Constable Molly Smith and Sergeant John Winters, set in Trafalgar, B.C.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009,
6 to 7 p.m.
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C.B. FORREST
author of
The Weight of Stones
($15.95)
Toronto at the close of 1999. It is a time of change, but Detective Charlie McKelvey’s life is stuck on pause since the murder of his runaway son, Gavin. As his wife focuses on healing, McKelvey is burdened with guilt for his role in kicking the teen out of the family home—and his inability to move the case to resolution. Obsessed with the stalled murder investigation, McKelvey’s behavior becomes increasingly unhinged. He is convinced the person responsible for the murder is an ex-convict sent to Toronto to establish a chapter of a biker gang, The Blades. The question is, does McKelvey have the right man, or is he blinded by his grief? When unexpected illness forces McKelvey’s early retirement—and his wife heads to the west coast to live with a relative—the conditions are finally ripe for McKelvey to focus entirely on his plans for revenge. This novel explores the daily and random decisions we make and their consequences as it stares into the heart of grief and sees the impact violent crime has on all of us.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009,
6 to 7 p.m.
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the newest addition to the Sleuth family. After 32 years of cats--Porky, Winston, Popi, Princess, Peaches, Petosky, Perry, and Paddington--the cat era has come to an end. In comes Percy, sorry, Sir Percival, and the era of the dog has begun. Marian wanted a dog for the cottage, and JD has always been allergic to cats (and dogs) so the compromise was a hypo-allergenic Standard Poodle (from Pendragon Poodles). Paddington was the last of the cats to join the family and the last to leave, but, alas, leave he has, to join his siblings in the great mouse hunting grounds of the sky. That's Paddinton in the pictures below. Oh, yeah, that's him and his dad hard at work, keeping the couch from flying off.
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