When a judge's body is found in Wascana Park, Joanne and friend Hilda Mc Court must determine if the judge had come to regret the harsh sentences she had handed down, or was she getting senile? She had left two wills and the murder...
Ex-police officers
- Author:Bowen, GailSummary:
- Author:Kalteis, DietrichSummary:
You know you’re in deep water when you can’t tell cop from criminal
Rene Beckman is a dishonoured ex-cop with only two things on his mind: his new boat, the Triggerfish, and his hot date, an environmentalist named Vicki...
- Author:Dunning, JohnSummary:
Criminal defense attorney Erin D'Angelo, Cliff's bookstore partner, needs a favor. Her first true love, Robert Marshall, has been murdered, and his wife Laura has confessed. But Erin smells something fishy. She asks Cliff to...
- Author:Hime, James L.Summary:
Sisy Fletcher, the preacher's daughter, disappeared about ten years ago on the night of the rodeo dance in Washington County, Texas. But now her body has been found by men drilling for oil in a field outside of town. Sheriff Dewey...
- Author:Preston, AlisonSummary:
After leaving the Winnipeg Police force, former Inspector Frank Foote has gone into home renovations. Tearing down a wall on a Norwood Flats job one day, he and his partner come across the skeleton of a small female who has been...
- Author:Braun, JackieSummary:
She thinks I'm a hero, but I'm only a former cop, out of the rescue business for a long time now. Still, I couldn't leave Caro Franklin stranded in a snowstorm. Even if bringing that beautiful lady to my home meant my...
- Author:Ace, CathySummary:
Winner of the 2015 Bony Blithe Award for Best Canadian Light Mystery With birthday celebrations in the cards, Cait Morgan and her significant other, retired cop Bud Anderson, travel to Las Vegas. As they are about to finish dinner in...
- Author:Dunning, JohnSummary:
Traveling to Idaho at the invitation of a wealthy horse owner, Cliff discovers a stunning collection of first-edition children's classics. The books are valued in the millions, which would be excellent news for their owner--if he...
- Author:Dunning, JohnSummary:
When rare book collector Cliff Janeway is offered a lucrative bondsman job, he can't refuse, especially since the bail jumper might have a priceless copy of The Raven.
- Author:Donald, R. E.Summary:
When a well respected truck driver, the owner of a family trucking business, is found dead in his truck down a steep embankment along the Coquihalla highway that winds through the mountains in British Columbia, his distraught daughter...
- Author:Gray, A. W.Summary:
This crime fiction novel from the author of the Bino Phillips series follows former Dallas police officer Frank White as he matches wits with an attractive ex-convict, who tries to entrap him in a kidnapping plot through which she hopes...
- Author:Donald, R. E.Summary:
A dead man rides the chairlift to the bottom of a ski hill on Whistler Mountainches Former RCMP homicide detective Hunter Rayne is at the top of the suspect list, so Hunter has no choice but to get involved in the investigation in order...
- Author:Hime, James L.Summary:
Ex-Texas Ranger Jeremiah Spur is reluctant to cooperate when the CIA asks for his assistance on a special investigation. But when they mention the name Benjamin Farkas, Spur's curiousity is piqued. Farkas once knew Spur's...
- Author:Fleury, Jean LouisSummary:
À la suite de la mort de l’un des occupants d’une luxueuse maison de retraite, survenue dans des circonstances préoccupantes, un nouveau pensionnaire vient bouleverser la tranquillité des lieux. La présence de cet homme, ancien chef de...
- Author:Maleeny, TimSummary:
When the most hated landlord in San Francisco takes an unexpected jump off the roof of his own building, it isn’t too hard to find suspects. But the police want to call it a suicide, since both the Mayor and press are complaining about...
- Author:Blair, MichaelSummary:
This double edition of the Joe Shoe Mystery series presents Michael Blair's The Dells and A Hard Winter Rain.
- Author:Child, LeeSummary:
Pericles "Perry" Christo is a PI with a past--a former cop, who lost his badge and his family when a corruption scandal left him broke and disgraced. When wealthy Upper East Side matron Julia Drusilla summons him one cold February night...
- Author:Donald, R. E.Summary:
On a warm July morning in L.A. County, a frozen corpse turns up at a highway brake check just south of the Grapevine Pass. Ex-homicide detective Hunter Rayne, who now drives an eighteen wheeler, is persuaded by his irascible dispatcher...
- Author:LOGAN, ChuckSummary:
The daughter of ex-cop Phil Broker and ex-army major/anti-terrorist operative Nina Pryce, Kit Broker is no ordinary eight-year-old. She has seen more - and survived more - than most grown-ups. And now she has inadvertently invited a...
- Author:McKinty, AdrianSummary:
In this electrifying noir thriller, a young Irish ex-cop travels half a world away to investigate the murder of a beautiful girl he once loved. But plagued by a heroin habit, things don't go as planned for Alex.