Brutal murders don’t happen often in NowZo and City Detective Mac MacHenry is puzzled when Darmes national security interferes with the autopsy of a dead girl. It’s not MacHenry’s jurisdiction, but the outraged Medical Examiner asks her to dig deeper. Mac’s paranoia grows as she follows a trail into the crumbling ruins of the Decayed Zone and discovers a mysterious medical facility, a group of fundamentalist outcasts, and a secret that could change the world.

Still humiliated after his disastrous posting in Cobourg, preacher and sometime detective Thaddeus Lewis is asked to investigate a case of arson and murder that had its beginnings as a simple suit for seduction - a so-called "heart balm tort". The last person he expects to find in London, Canada West is con-artist and former adversary Clementine Elliott, a woman he last saw many years before - when she was skipping out on her hotel bill. London buzzes with gossip as Thaddeus doggedly pursu...

Thaddeus Lewis, an itinerant "saddlebag" preacher still mourns the mysterious death of his daughter Sarah as he rides to his new posting in Prince Edward County. When a girl in Demorestville dies in a similar way, he realizes that the circumstances point to murder. But in the turmoil following the 1837 Mackenzie Rebellion he can get no one to listen. Convinced there is a serial killer loose in Upper Canada, Lewis alone must track the culprit across a colony convulsed by dissension, invasio...

This ebook bundle contains the first three novels of the Thaddeus Lewis Mystery series. During the wild era before Confederation, Thaddeus Lewis, a "saddlebag" preacher, mourns the mysterious death of his daughter Sarah as he rides to his new posting in Prince Edward County. But soon other deaths hang over Lewis's head. And the list of suspects is growing…"A four star selection that will be loved by all mystery fans."- Suspense Magazine"Kellough does a fine ...

After an absence of many years, Nathan Elliott returns to the lakeside village of Wellington in Ontario's Prince Edward County to be at his dying father's side. Within a few days of his return, his brother reports that Nathan disappeared while the two were cutting firewood and no trace of him can be found. Shortly after, Nathan's wife arrives in the village. Claiming that she can contact the dead, she begins to hold séances for the villagers.Thaddeus Lewis, a Methodist circuit ride...

When the bloated corpse of a man dressed in women’s clothing washes up on the shore of Lake Ontario near Thaddeus Lewis’s home, nothing is found on the body except a small scrap of green ribbon.The year is 1847 — “Black ’47” — and 100,000 Irish emigrants are fleeing to Canada to escape starvation. The emigrants bring with them the dreaded “ship’s fever,” and soon Canadian ports are overflowing with the sick and dying and entire families are being torn apart.Lewis’s youngest...

Liddie Rose Marsh grows up in a place where it’s all right to have more-or-less cousins and miscellaneous relatives and old folks and young folks and car engines and chickens all sharing the same space: where kids are taken along to dances at the Town Hall and where her pear-shaped aunt is carrying out a feud with the minister across the road. It seems like a rural idyll, but one day a Ouija board changes everything. At times tragic, at times side-splittingly funny, the story chart...

This ebook bundle contains the first four novels of the Thaddeus Lewis Mystery series. During the wild era before Confederation, Thaddeus Lewis, a “saddlebag” preacher, mourns the mysterious death of his daughter Sarah as he rides to his new posting in Prince Edward County. But soon other deaths hang over Lewis’s head. And the list of suspects is growing …**“A four star selection that will be loved by all mystery fans.”— Suspense Magazine“Kellough does a fin...

2017 Arthur Ellis Award, Best Novel — ShortlistedSaddlebag preacher Thaddeus Lewis uncovers murder and conspiracy in Northumberland County.A body is discovered on an isolated island in Rice Lake. Saddlebag preacher Thaddeus Lewis is sent on a desperate hunt for the truth when a woman for whom he feels a guilty attraction stands accused of the murder. Meanwhile, railway mania grips the county: everyone expects to get rich off the Cobourg–Peterborough...

Someone is digging up the graves at the Strangers’ Burying Ground in Toronto — the final resting place of criminals, vagrants, indigents, and alcoholics — and the only person who seems to care is the sexton, Morgan Spicer. The authorities are unconcerned; after all, for years the growing village of Yorkville has been clamouring to have the bodies moved and the Burying Ground closed.The distraught Spicer enlists the aid of his old friend Thaddeus Lewis, who has unexpectedly returned...

The first four novels of the Thaddeus Lewis Mystery series, with the inimitable Lewis, saddlebag preacher and reluctant sleuth. During the wild era before Confederation, and with the mysterious death of his daughter Sarah hanging over him, he finds himself investigating other troubling deaths and shining a light on darkness in pre-Confederation Canada. And his list of suspects is growing …“A four-star selection that will be loved by all mystery fans.”— Suspense M...

A ramshackle dance hall and a balmy spring night lie at the heart of a secret that puzzles Cara Collins when she returns to her hometown to bury her mother. Four women - two girlfriends, one wife and a daughter - are caught up in the tangled web that spins around bootlegger businessman Len Collins. In pursuit of the answers to her questions, Cara uncovers the details of her parents’ extraordinary lives and discovers friendships that have lasted a lifetime. Covering the post-war period of t...