Includes ‘Cold Wave’ by Marcelle Dubé, winner of the Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence for Best Short Story.
Western Canada. A vast and varied land of hidden coastal islands and inlets, towering icy mountains, wind-tossed ranges and wheat fields, and cold lakes that keep their secrets. These are its stories.
In ‘The Potluck Brigade,’ visit a dying Alberta town and a senior citizen trying to cope with murder as well as her own failing mind. The police procedural ‘Local Intelligence’ follows a young RCMP constable in an isolated coastal town facing a most unusual collection of flotsam. In ‘Salty Dog Blues,’ the crew and passengers on a west coast cruise ship confront a mystery involving a verrry annoying little passenger. In the Yukon, ‘Cold Wave’ forces a lone cross-country skier to choose between personal safety and saving her friends.
‘News on the Buckhorn’ brings us to British Columbia ranch country in a taut suspense tale of a timid young girl dealing with the mutilation of her show horse. Visit the prairies early in the Great War when a North West Mounted Police officer investigates an unlamented death in ‘Autumn is a Time for Dying.’ An Okanagan bed and breakfast owner takes the stage in the rollicking ‘A Midwinter Night’s Scream’ to solve a tinsel-draped celebrity death. Finally, in ‘Pickled to Death,’ a small BC town’s annual Pickle Festival descends into chaos for a peck of unusual characters following the untimely demise of a pickle aficionado.
From thrilling to wistful to laugh-out-loud funny, these short stories draw the reader into a Canadian West where maple meets murder.
Authors in this volume:
KL Abrahamson
JE Barnard
Alice Bienia
Marcelle Dubé
Debra Henry
Winona Kent
Charlotte Morganti
Merrilee Robson
Genre: Mystery
Western Canada. A vast and varied land of hidden coastal islands and inlets, towering icy mountains, wind-tossed ranges and wheat fields, and cold lakes that keep their secrets. These are its stories.
In ‘The Potluck Brigade,’ visit a dying Alberta town and a senior citizen trying to cope with murder as well as her own failing mind. The police procedural ‘Local Intelligence’ follows a young RCMP constable in an isolated coastal town facing a most unusual collection of flotsam. In ‘Salty Dog Blues,’ the crew and passengers on a west coast cruise ship confront a mystery involving a verrry annoying little passenger. In the Yukon, ‘Cold Wave’ forces a lone cross-country skier to choose between personal safety and saving her friends.
‘News on the Buckhorn’ brings us to British Columbia ranch country in a taut suspense tale of a timid young girl dealing with the mutilation of her show horse. Visit the prairies early in the Great War when a North West Mounted Police officer investigates an unlamented death in ‘Autumn is a Time for Dying.’ An Okanagan bed and breakfast owner takes the stage in the rollicking ‘A Midwinter Night’s Scream’ to solve a tinsel-draped celebrity death. Finally, in ‘Pickled to Death,’ a small BC town’s annual Pickle Festival descends into chaos for a peck of unusual characters following the untimely demise of a pickle aficionado.
From thrilling to wistful to laugh-out-loud funny, these short stories draw the reader into a Canadian West where maple meets murder.
Authors in this volume:
KL Abrahamson
JE Barnard
Alice Bienia
Marcelle Dubé
Debra Henry
Winona Kent
Charlotte Morganti
Merrilee Robson
Genre: Mystery
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