Joe Grundy is an ex-heavyweight boxer whose main claim to fame was that he got knocked out by champ Evander Holyfield. Now he's chief of security for a posh old hotel, the Lord Douglas, in downtown Vancouver, and life is pretty good. But then a young neo-hippie inherits more than half a billion dollars and decides to give it all away. As soon as the kid checks into the Lord Douglas with the intention of holding a press conference to announce the scheme, Joe knows big trouble is headed his ...

This double edition of the Joe Grundy Mystery series presents Marc Strange's Sucker Punch and Body Blows.Sucker Punch: Joe Grundy is an ex-heavyweight boxer whose main claim to fame was that he got knocked out by champ Evander Holyfield. Now he's chief of security for a posh old hotel, the Lord Douglas, in downtown Vancouver, and life is pretty good. But then a young neo-hippie inherits more than half a billion dollars and decides to give it all a...

Winner of the 2010 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original, short-listed for the 2010 Shamus Award for Best Paperback Original NovelEx-boxer Joe Grundy is embroiled in the intrigues of his own boss, millionaire Leo Alexander, the owner of Vancouver’s Lord Douglas Hotel. Somebody has murdered Leo’s live-in servant and not-so-secret lover, and Grundy has to get to the bottom of the incident in order to clear the man he’s forged a bond with since first coming to wor...

When President Thomas Lloyd arrives in Zurich, Switzerland, he suffers a massive heart attack. Despite the best medical care available, his only chance for survival is an immediate heart transplant. Five miles away, journalist Jack McDermott has awoken from a near death coma, and his name mistakenly turns up as a donor match for Lloyd. Now Jack must run for his life or become an unwilling donor.

Lindsey Walsh thinks she's found personal happiness at pharmaceutical giant, Imec. Paired with her colleague, Katherine Blair, they're entrusted with the marketing of an exciting new psychotropic drug called Bliss, the next generation of antidepressant. But when several workplace deaths occur simultaneously, Lindsey fears she has stumbled on a diabolic conspiracy with horrifying consequences.

Off the Indonesian coast, a 747 plunges into the ocean, leaving a handful of survivors that wash ashore onto a deserted island. Unbeknownst to them, the island is home to a secret genetics lab where someone has attempted to resurrect a long-extinct mammal. But the project has gone horribly wrong and soon they realize that surviving the plane crash was the easy part.

Dorian Gray meets the medical thriller when RN Paul Grant discovers that peaceful Harbor View Nursing Home is not what it seems. His new employer has a dark secret, threatening Paul's very survival. His quest for the truth takes him from the picturesque countryside of Cutting, Vermont, all the way to the deepest reaches of the Amazon jungle. And in the end, he must confront the evil or perish.

When Holland Carter is called to Chicago to help fellow detective Sam Books, he is eager to assist. A series of brutal murders have occurred at a staggering rate. All the victims were found with their skull truncated; their brain carefully removed. But the truth is more shocking than Carter imagined -- there is another dimension to the whole affair, that neither he nor Sam could have anticipated.

International intrigue and murder come to a small townStolen gems. shady cops. Murders that could lead to an international incident. Orwell Brennan, chief of the Dockerty police force in small–town Ontario, had enough problems on his hands with the mayoral election, a daughter engaged, and, perhaps worst of all, someone in the department stealing his favourite cookies.Things are complicated for the loveable curmudgeon: a police officer from Toronto, in Dockerty as ...

Private detective Michael Kelly is hired by his former partner to solve an eight-year old rape and battery case long gone cold. But when the partner turns up dead, Kelly enlists a team of his savviest colleagues to connect the dots between the recent murder and the cold case it revived: a television reporter whose relationship with Kelly is not strictly professional; his best friend from childhood, a forensic DNA expert; and an old ally from the DA's office. To close the case, Kelly will h...

In 1947, the U.S. Army left behind a secret when they closed Ft. Miles, Delaware. A threat so deadly, they buried it 1000 feet down in the Atlantic Ocean. Now, sixty years later, an oil rig drilling off the coast of Delaware has hit something.Now one man holds the key to the survival of the planet.

Doctor Jonathan Ransom thought he knew everything about his wife Emma until she was killed in a tragic skiing accident in the Swiss Alps. They had been married for eight years, eight blissful years in which they had travelled the world together. But the day after her death a mysterious letter addressed to her arrives at their hotel. When he opens it, his beliefs begin to unravel -- fast. .In the envelope is a railway baggage check to a suitcase that reveals an Emma far removed from...