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Maple Syrup Noir

A Taste of Crime Novels Set in Canada

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  • Sebastian Synard doesn't want any more trouble than he already has. But when he leads a group of tourists along the cliffs of St. John's harbour, one of them ends up dead. Not only is there a murderer in his tour group, but the cop…
    BookSt. John's, NL : Breakwater, [2018] — Major bk.1
  • The first book in the Inspector Gamache series. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a suspicious death in a rural village south of Montreal. Jane Neal, a local fixture in the tiny…
    BookLondon : Sphere, 2015. — Penny
  • When four teenagers go missing in the small northern town of Algonquin Bay, the extensive police investigation comes up empty. Everyone is ready to give up except Detective John Cardinal, an all-too-human loner whose persistence only…
    BookToronto : Vintage Canada, 2017, c2000. — Blunt
  • When peace of a frosty morning is shattered when a man fids a colleague`s battered body. The victim is found by a maintenance worker on the university campus. Despite being brutally murdered, there is a little other evidence; just a…
    BookLondon : The Bok Folks / 2019 — Garth
  • It begins with a phone call that Nora Watts has dreaded for fifteen years--since the day she gave her newborn daughter up for adoption. Bonnie has vanished. The police consider her a chronic runaway and aren't looking, leaving her…
    BookNew York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2017. — Kamal
  • Marking the debut of Leo Desroches, one of the most unusual amateur detectives ever to appear in Canada or points south, this fast-paced, enthralling mystery is the story of a man who had everything, lost it all, and is trying to get it…
    BookNew York : Forge, c2011. — Arthu
  • Late one bitterly cold winter night, rookie constable Nicole Patterson comes across the body of a young woman lying in a snow-covered field on the outskirts of town. When the victim turns out to be a high school student with a…
    BookVictoria, B.C. : Raven Books, an imprint of Orca Book Publishers, 2012. — Delan
  • Ottawa Homicide Inspector Michael Green is absolutely obsessed with his job, a condition which has almost ruined his marriage several times. When the biggest case of his career comes up, his position, his relationships and several lives…
    BookToronto : RendezVous Press, 2000. — Fradk bk.1
  • Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef has lived all her days in the small town of Port Dundas and is now making her way toward retirement with something less than grace. Hobbled by a bad back and a dependence on painkillers, and feeling…
    BookToronto : M&S, 2009. — Wolfe
  • In the cold Toronto winter of 1895, the unclad body of a young woman is found naked and frozen in a quiet laneway. Acting Detective William Murdoch, driven by pity for the girl and the desire to secure his promotion, is determined to…
    BookToronto : McClelland & Stewart, 2022. — Jenni bk.1
  • In the tradition of defence lawyers turned authors like Scott Turow and John Grisham, Robert Rotenberg delivers a legal thriller rich with his forensic skill and insider knowledge, taking readers on a tour of Toronto from the Don Jail to…
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster, 2009. — Roten
  • Casey Duncan once killed a man and got away with it. But that’s not why she’s on the run. Her best friend Diana’s ex has found her again, despite all Casey has done to protect her. And Diana has decided the only way she’ll ever be safe is…
    BookToronto : Vintage Canada, 2017. — Armst bk.1
  • Deadly Appearances

    a Joanne Kilbourn Mystery

    Bowen, Gail, 1942-
    Andy Boychuk was a successful Saskatchewan politician – until one sweltering August afternoon when the party faithful gathered at a picnic. It happened so quickly. Boychuk stepped up to the podium to make a speech, took a sip of water, and…
    BookToronto : McClelland & Stewart, 2011. — Bowen bk.1
  • The White Angel is a work of fiction inspired by the cold case of Janet Smith, who, on July 26, 1924, was found dead in her employer's posh Shaughnessy Heights mansion. A dubious investigation led to the even more dubious conclusion that…
    BookMadeira Park, B.C. : Douglas & McIntyre, c2017. — Gray
  • Clare is on the run. From her past, from her ex, and from her own secrets. When she turns up alone in the remote mining town of Blackmore asking about Shayna Fowles, the local girl who disappeared, everyone wants to know who Clare really…
    BookToronto, Ontario : Simon & Schuster Canada, 2016. — Stuar
  • The first book featuring Benny Cooperman is The Suicide Murders published in 1980. In Memory Book, recovering in a Toronto hospital from a serious blow to the head, private investigator Benny Cooperman struggles with memory loss and a…
    BookToronto : Penguin Canada, c2005. — Engel
  • In Before Sunrise, Will Fortin of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is on patrol in southern Alberta. It’s a lonely region where the sky meets the land on even terms, where the landscape exaggerates or diminishes your place in the world.…
    eBook[S.l.] : Rick Mofina, 2017.
  • Still the rogue at his own detective agency, Dave Wakeland has moved out but not on. When a troubled professor hires him to find a missing former student, beneath what seems like a straightforward runaway case lies a tangled mess of stolen…
    BookToronto : Random House Canada, 2018. — Wiebe
  • A Violent End

    a Farran Mackenzie Lost Villages Mystery

    Wheeler, Maggie A., 1960-
    Following the death of her mother, university history professor Farran Mackenzie begins searching for her parents’ past in the Lost Villages of the St. Lawrence Seaway. Her arrival surprises the old-timers, and stirs up memories amongst…
    BookBurnstown, ON : General Store Publishing House, c2001. — Wheel