Dominick Prince is out of options. He’s lived in Detroit long enough to use his experiences of crime and poverty to fuel his writing, but he’s ready to move on to bigger and better things. Dominick’s thesis advisor, the elitist Parker Farmington, refuses to let Dominick pass his class, thinking the genre of potboilers beneath him. Which means rather than becoming the next literary sensation, Dominick will spend his life asking customers if they’d like...
Ned Wilcox, którego ojciec zginął gwałtowną śmiercią, podejmuje pracę w jego macierzystej Jednostce D, by jeszcze przez jakiś czas obcować chociaż ze wspomnieniami o nim. Wśród funkcjonariuszy policji stanowej panują stosunki jak w rodzinie. Ale, jak wiadomo, każda rodzina ma swoje tajemnice, niekoniecznie przyjemne. Także Jednostka D od lat pilnie strzeże tajemnicy, która może mieć coś wspólnego z makabryczną śmiercią ojca Neda. Tajemnicy nieludzkiej i niewyjaśnionej do dziś, a przez to jeszcze...
Private investigator John McAlister is looking for something different. Something that doesn’t involve the divorce surveillance work he is so good at. But when high-powered society attorney Amanda Baker hires him to find a missing accused crack dealer, John gets more change than he bargained for when he learns that other accused drug criminals have gone missing. John’s search leads him through a world of urban drug dealers, country honkytonks, high society and twisted law enforcement, with a...
When his popular hip-hop artist client is blackmailed, Crang stumbles on a porn operation and an unexpected case of murder. Crang is a smart-talking criminal lawyer who doesn’t mind chasing down unorthodox cases. That makes him just the guy to represent a famous hip-hop performer who’s on the wrong end of a blackmail scheme. It doesn’t strike Crang as a confounding case, but in no time, he finds himself confronting an organized gang that deals in porn, stock swindles, and murder. Things get so...
Private investigator Dan Sharp searches the seamy underbelly of the city for a brutal killer. Following an anonymous tip, missing persons investigator Dan Sharp makes a grisly find in a burned-out slaughterhouse in Toronto’s west end. Someone is targeting known sex offenders whose names and identities were released on the Internet. When an iconic rock star contacts Dan to keep from becoming the next victim, things take a curious turn. Dan’s search for a killer takes him underground in Toronto’s...
A reissue of the third Crang mystery; Dundurn is in the process of reissuing the earlier books while continuing the series The second Crang novel, Straight No Chaser , made the short list for the Arthur Ellis Best Crime Novel Award Author has written on jazz for the Globe and Mail , writes the Toronto Star ’s Whodunit column, and reviewed movies for CBC radio The fifth Crang novel, Take Five , received favourable reviews from the Globe and Mail , the Toronto Star , and fellow mystery...
A twisted, darkly comic murder mystery in the musty world of rare book dealing (and forgery) The seventh in the Crang mystery series, which Dundurn is in the process of reissuing The previous Crang novel, Keeper of the Flame , received favourable reviews from Publishers Weekly , the Toronto Star , and Booklist (“Legal-thriller fans who haven’t discovered the Crang series are in for a treat”) The second Crang novel, Straight No Chaser , made the shortlist for the 1990 Arthur Ellis Best...
A seemingly casual encounter in a downtown bar sends missing persons investigator Dan Sharp in search of a woman presumed dead in the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Twenty years after her disappearance, her brother believes that a woman he glimpsed on the Internet is his sister, now living in Toronto. The closer Dan gets to finding her, however, the less sense things make. Just when he thinks he knows what’s driving his client, an unexpected revelation forces him to choose between what he’s been...
2015 Kobo Emerging Writer's – Winner, Fiction 2015 Arthur Ellis Award – Nominated, Best First Novel 2012 Unhanged Arthur Award – Winner, Best Unpublished First Crime Novel What do a necrophile, a missing boy, and an unsavoury P.I. have in common? Private detective Michael Drayton is about to find out…. Twenty-nine-year-old Michael Drayton runs a private investigation agency in Vancouver that specializes in missing persons – only, as Mike has discovered, some missing people stay with...