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Mark Heron's career as a successful cartoonist has taken him around the world, but as his seventieth birthday approaches, he decides to settle down in rural eastern Ontario in search of a quieter life. When Rosemary Nolan arrives on her Harley-Davidson, however, he must put his quest for peace and tranquility on hold. A young woman on a mission, Rosemary is searching for a missing man with an intellectual disability, and she believes Mark ca...

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Someone murdered former professional hockey player Grant Burnham on his private woodlot north of Perth, Ontario. In a violent fit of rage, they beat him to death with a baseball bat made by his own woodworking company. Ontario Provincial Police Detective Inspector Ellie March must cope with an acute shortage of detectives as the Lanark County Crime Unit investigates, and while the loan of Detective Constable Kevin Walker from the Leeds Count...

When Jesse Copeland returns to Walter's Academy after a difficult Christmas spent at home with his insufferable, rich family, he discovers that things aren't quite the same as when he left. Unfortunately for him, the mysterious expulsion of his roommate isn't the only unexpected event that unfolds over the next few weeks, and Jesse has to come to terms with the reality of loss and losing himself. Please forgive the odd spelling mistake and ...

We all have our ghosts. Jesse Copeland spends so much time with his, that he wants to become one. A poetry collection to be read as a companion piece to High Society Part One by J. McCann.

Maddie Hubbard is trying her best to be a normal 20-year-old. She's taking online courses toward her BA in English, she's looking after her 12-year-old brother, and she's maintaining a very low profile in their late grandmother's house on Twilight Road. Unfortunately, she has a special ability that won't let her go. An ability inherited from generations of women in her family before her. And now she's seeing the faces of dead women, women so...

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In the Martian domed city of Elysium, Serena Keilor is a young social outcast, discriminated against because of her red hair, her smallness, and her mottled complexion. Unknown to those who revile her as a worthless dirt eater, however, she's a highly effective undercover operative for Martian Intelligence who's just been handed her most difficult assignment yet.Someone is selling Martian corporate secrets to Earth Intelligence at a time when ...

As the worst storm of the winter settles in, a funeral takes place in the village of Westport for an elderly Toronto crime lord who retired several years ago to the quiet beauty of Rideau Lakes.Shortly afterward, a man is found brutally beaten to death behind the local hardware store, and Ontario Provincial Police Detective Inspector Ellie March discovers that the victim was an important employee of Dante Tassone, heir to the crime lord's vast...

When Tom Faust retires after a successful career as an Ontario Provincial Police homicide investigator, he finds himself at loose ends. To give himself something to do and to head off an increased reliance on alcohol, Tom buys a decommissioned country church in Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada to renovate as a home -- his final stop, the place where he'll make his last stand.When someone hangs a body from the rafters, however, he realizes ...

When human remains are found behind a barn on a property along the historic Rideau Waterway, Ontario Provincial Police Detective Constable Kevin Walker finds himself riding herd on a forensic anthropologist brought in by the coroner to supervise the removal of the bones.But as the wildly eccentric Dr. Ash Latimer excavates the unmarked grave, the bodies begin to multiply and Detective Inspector Ellie March is abruptly forced to recuse herself ...

Illustrates the ways that the "war on crime" became conjoined--aesthetically, politically, and rhetorically--with the emergence of gangsta rap as a lucrative and deeply controversial subgenre of hip-hop

On a cold morning in late April, a man and his dog discover the nude body of a young woman in the ditch alongside the picturesque Thousand Islands Parkway in Leeds County. The woman was stabbed fifteen times before being dumped.Detective Constable Kevin Walker of the Ontario Provincial Police discovers that the victim, Andie Matheson, worked for an old high school acquaintance of his. Kyle Baldwin now runs a charity that raises funds for mobil...

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First recognized with the likes of Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco as a defining figure at the forefront of the "theater of the absurd, " French playwright Adam Adamov had a fairly prolific career, writing twenty plays between 1947 and his death in 1970. Now, though now he has fallen somewhat into obscurity. John J. McMann provides a study of Adamov's work which traces the playwright's artistic development and explores his role in defining t...

The latest in a series of barn fires in Leeds County turns ugly when a body is discovered inside the burned-out husk of an old hay barn near the village of Elgin. When the victim turns out to be Independent Senator Darius Lane, a renowned artist and social activist recently appointed to the upper chamber by the prime minister, Detective Inspector Ellie March of the Ontario Provincial Police finds herself coping with an RCMP national security t...

Illustrates the ways that the "war on crime” became conjoined - aesthetically, politically, and rhetorically - with the emergence of gangsta rap as a lucrative and deeply controversial subgenre of hip-hop. Bryan J. McCann positions the works of key gangsta rap artists, as well as the controversies their work produced, squarely within the law-and-order politics and popular culture of the 1980s and 1990s.

The articles in the present collection deal with the religious dimension of the problem of free will. Together they provide a historical and contemporary overview of problems in the theology of freedom, along with recent work by some important philosophers in the field aimed at resolving those problems.

A man in a business suit offers the protection of his umbrella to an unsuspecting woman ... and several days later she turns up dead on a river bank, raped and strangled. The terrifying serial killer known in the press as the Rainy Day Killer is now hunting new victims in the city of Glendale, whenever it rains. Homicide Lieutenant Hank Donaghue leads the investigation as the killer begins to communicate directly to him through phone calls an...