Whether it's cops or criminals, every organization has its filthy few . . .No longer on the force, Karen Grant is now working as a journalist—and one of her two sources has just been murdered in what police have written off as a drug deal gone bad. When Grant and a witness become hunted themselves, she can think of only one person to turn to: her ex-partner, disgraced Toronto detective Steve Nastos.With help from his friend, lawyer Kevin C...

"Fans of Donald E. Westlake's Parker novels (written under his Richard Stark pseudonym) will be on familiar ground. . . . A very good entry in a very good series" ( Booklist).Wilson should have just walked away when three men came looking for a way to boost a valuable piece of art. The art came off the wall, the alarm screamed thief, and Wilson walked away clean. But it turned out that job was an interview for an even bigger heist. A dangerous man wants Wi...

A police detective is accused of murder in this novel that "delivers on all levels: action, courtroom drama . . . and a show-stopping climax" ( The Hamilton Spectator).Until recently, Steve Nastos was a respected Toronto detective, part of the sexual assault unit. Now he's in custody—accused of killing his young daughter's dentist after learning of the man's unspeakable crimes against children.Freed on bail, he has one hope: to track down the actua...

Set amid the tumult of 1970 Montreal, this is "an extremely good crime novel [with] a seriously compelling mystery" ( Booklist).The police in Montreal have their hands full as FLQ, a militant separatist group, continue a campaign of violence. Bombs explode at the stock exchange and at McGill University. Riots break out at a parade. Diplomat James Cross and government minister Pierre Laporte are kidnapped—and the Canadian army moves onto the streets. But wh...

2015 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize — Winner, Mystery • 2015 Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence Best First Novel — Nominated • Unhanged Arthur Award — Winner, Best Unpublished First Crime NovelWhat do a necrophile, a missing boy, and an unsavoury P.I. have in common? Private detective Michael Drayton is about to find out….Twenty-nine-year-old Michael Drayton runs a private investigation agency in Vancouver that specializes in missing persons ...

An undercover FBI agent has been exposed—while a traitor hides within the Bureau, in this heart-pounding crime thriller by "a knock-em-dead writer" (Anthony Neil Smith, author of Slow Bear).Tony Wolf, a troubled man and the FBI's most esteemed undercover agent, is back after mysteriously vanishing without a trace. A specialist at infiltrating criminal organizations and taking them down from the inside, he lives his life in the shadows.But when he's f...

Every man has his dark side ... Spero Lucas confronts his own in the most explosive thriller yet from one of America's best-loved crime writers.The job seems simple enough: retrieve the valuable painting—"The Double"—Grace Kinkaid's ex-boyfriend stole from her. It's the sort of thing Spero Lucas specializes in: finding what's missing, and doing it quietly. But Grace wants more. She wants Lucas to find the man who humiliated her—a violent career criminal with a smal...

Includes the novels Dirty Sweet, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, and SwapRoad rage or a premeditated killing? Dirty Sweet is a fast-paced crime story that follows each character to a surprising end.In Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, detective Gord Bergeron has problems. Maybe it’s his new partner, Ojibwa native Detective Armstrong. Or maybe it’s the missing ten-year-old girl, or the unidentified torso dumped in an alley behind ...

Set in China, and ripped from today's headlines, comes a pulse-pounding debut that reinvents the spy thriller for the 21st century.A lone man, Peanut, escapes a labor camp in the dead of night, fleeing across the winter desert of north-west China.Two decades earlier, he was a spy for the British; now Peanut must disappear on Beijing's surveillance-blanketed streets. Desperate and ruthless, he reaches out to his one-time MI6 paymasters via crusading journalist...

Blackburn on a Friday night at the beginning of summer is always a policing headache. But for the officers of Blackburn police station it's about to become a nightmare.When three police cars explode in quick succession in the station car park, it seems as if a spectacular terrorist campaign is underway. But as Blackburn's finest get ready to do battle with the IRA, the real action is going down elsewhere – a building society heist that is about to go badly wrong and which will have ...

Screams in the night...A gut-wrenching phone call…A life-and-death race against time...Deep in the woods of upstate New York a woman flees a blazing barn. Burned beyond recognition, her dying words point police to a labyrinth of 'confinement rooms'—rooms designed to hold human beings captive—where they make other chilling discoveries. In Manhattan, Kate Page, a single mom and reporter with a newswire service, receives a heart-stopping call from a detective on the c...

Butch Dixon has been taken for a ride …Not a jump in the car, see the sights kind of ride. He's been taken for everything he has. He's lost his house, his restaurant business, his savings, his car, his best friend, his faith—all to his conniving ex-wife. But that was seven years ago. He picked himself up, left Chicago, and started over in Peoria, Arizona, running the Roundhouse Bar and Grill. He doesn't look back on those bad years; there's no point. Not until two curious cops show...