By Will Ferguson

When her father falls victim to an Internet scam, which results in his death, editor Laura Curtis sets out to track down - and corner - her father's killer, playing a dangerous game involving a scarred woman from the African Sahel and a young man trapped in a world of violence and deceit.

By Kathleen Winter

Born a boy and a girl but raised as a boy, Wayne or "Annabel" struggles with his identity growing up in a small Canadian town and seeks freedom by moving to the city.

By Emma Donoghue

A collection of short stories featuring a cross-section of society including runaways, drifters, gold miners, counterfeiters, attorneys, and slaves from Puritan Massachusetts and revolutionary New Jersey to antebellum Louisiana. 

By Iain Lawrence

In the spring of 1943, sixteen-year-old Kak, desperate to escape his abusive parents, lies about his age to enlist in the Canadian Air Force and soon finds himself based in England as part of a crew flying bombing raids over Germany.

By Linwood Barclay
Series Zack Walker

Paranoid writer Zack Walker moves his family from the city to the safety of the suburbs, but when he stumbles across the body of a dead environmentalist in a nearby creek, havoc ensues as he goes in search of the killer.

By Louise Penny
Series Inspector Armand Gamacge Mysteries
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

When a peaceful monastery in Quebec is shattered by the murder of their renowned choir director, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir of the Sûreté du Québec are challenged to find the killer in a cloistered community that has taken a vow of silence.

By Louise Penny
Series Chief Inspector Gamache Mysteries
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Searching for a missing woman amid a catastrophic flood and blistering social media attacks, a demoted Armand Gamache bonds with the victim’s distraught father, who contemplates a murder of his own.

By Ami McKay

The first daughter in five generations of her Nova Scotia family, Dora Rare becomes an apprentice to a gifted midwife and storyteller before their home is threatened by the arrival of a brash medical doctor who promises sterile and painless births.

By Margaret Atwood

In the aftermath of the second World War and her sister's suicide, Iris witnesses an unlikely series of events that are interwoven with the sci–fi tale of a pair of anonymous lovers and the death of Iris' industrialist husband.

By Louise Penny
Series Chief Inspector Gamache Novels
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

Taking leave during Quebec’s Winter Carnival after a case gone wrong, a disgruntled Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is unable to avoid assisting a politically charged investigation involving a historian’s murder during a search for a famous figure’s burial site. 

By Mary Lawson
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

In the rural farm country of northern Ontario, the lives of two families – the farming Pye family, and zoologist Kate Morrison and her three brothers – are brought together and torn apart by misunderstanding, resentment, family love, and tragedy.

By Emma Hooper

Embarking on a walking journey from rural Canada to the East coast so that she can see the ocean for the first time in her life, an octogenarian woman has experiences that blur her perspectives between illusion, memory, and reality.

By Louise Penny
Series Chief Inspector Gamache Mysteries
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

When a mysterious figure travels through Three Pines and leaves a dead body in its wake, Armand Gamache pursues a difficult investigation that yields unexpected consequences and forces him into a battle with his own conscience.

By Louise Penny
Series Chief Inspector Gamache Mysteries
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Receiving a mysterious old map that has been found stuffed in the walls of a bistro, former Quebec homicide investigator Armand Gamache follows clues to the site of a dead Sûreté academy professor and an unlikely cadet with whom he is implicated in a murder case.

By Louise Penny
Series Inspector Armand Gamache Mysteries
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk

“Struggling to maintain the Homicide group during the holiday season in the wake of interdepartmental estrangements, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache quietly investigates the disappearance of a once-famous mad poet while seeking a safe haven for his loyal colleagues in an increasingly hostile town (From the Publisher).”

By Emma Donoghue

Over the course of a year, the lives of two women--Sile, a flight attendant and world traveler, and Jude, a young archivist stubbornly attached to the town of Ireland, Ontario--intersect, in a story that reveals the joys and sorrows of a long-distance relationship.

By Heather O'Neill

Two orphaned soul mates–one a piano prodigy, the other a dancing savant–dream up a plan for the most extraordinary circus show the world has ever seen against a backdrop of the Great Depression.

By Louise Penny
Series Chief Inspector Gamache Series
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Enjoying a peaceful retirement, former Quebec homicide detective Armand Gamache reluctantly agrees to help a neighbor search for her missing estranged husband and teams up with two former colleagues on a search that reveals the workings of a damaged mind.

By Louise Penny
Series Chief Inspector Gamache mysteries #17
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian, Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

When a visiting professor spreads lies so that fact and fiction are so confused it’s near impossible to tell them apart, leading to murder, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache must investigate this case as well as this extraordinary popular delusion – and the madness of crowds.

By Judy Fong Bates

Su-Jen Chou, a Chinese immigrant growing up in 1950s Ontario, finds herself shouldering the weight of her mother's hopes and dreams as her isolated family attempts to forge a life for themselves in a small town.

By Deborah Ellis

After learning that her family adopted her, Valli runs away from home to live on the streets of Kolkata, India.

By Dan Vyleta
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services

“In 1939 Vienna, when his dog becomes a latest victim in a string of unsolved brutal killings, Professor Speckstein introduces the reclusive Dr. Beer to his enigmatic neighbors in order to discover if one of them is the killer (From the Publisher).”

By Margaret Atwood
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

Three fascinating woman living in Toronto allow Atwood to explore the paradox of woman as villain.

By Louise Penny
Series Inspector Armand Gamache Mysteries
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

In this classic drawing room mystery, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is looking forward to celebrating his wedding anniversary at the remote, luxurious Manoir Bellechasse. As Gamache's holiday becomes a busman's anniversary, he learns that the seemingly peaceful lodge is a place where visitors come to escape their past, until that past catches up with them.

By A.S.A. Harrison
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk, Betty Petreshock, Reference Librarian

Told in alternating voices, this gripping novel follows the events leading up to the violent dissolution of Jodi and Todd's marriage - a union steeped in lies, infidelity, jealousy and denial.

By Louise Penny
Series Inspector Armand Gamache Mysteries/Three Pines Mysteries
Recommended By Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian , Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of Canada's Sûreté du Québec is called to Three Pines, a tiny hamlet south of Montreal, to investigate the suspicious hunting "accident" that claimed the life of Jane Neal, a local fixture in the village.

By Chevy Stevens
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Returning home after serving time for the wrongful conviction of her sister's murder, Toni struggles to reacclimate and avoid parole violations while her boyfriend, who was also wrongly convicted, resolves to clear their names.

By Marjorie Celona

A foster child who has been shuffled through the system after being abandoned at the YMCA as a baby wonders about her birth family and the reasons she was given up, questions that lead to the tragic story of her flawed and desperate mother.