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Manitoba Book Awards Winners
Congratulations to all the winners of the Manitoba Book Awards, awarded on Friday, especially friend of Whodunit Esme Keith who won the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award for her debut novel NOT BEING ON A BOAT. read more

Newsletter - EUROPEAN NOIR by Jack
Two features in crime writing that interest many readers are unusual settings somewhat off the beaten track, and books in a series, usually (but not always) featuring a continuing protagonist. This essay will look at these two features combined in books available in our store. As is usually the case, the authors and books following are my choices from a much larger universe. read more

Newsletter - What I?m Reading by Sian
It?s been an odd couple of reading months for me where I?ve had trouble getting excited about reading much of anything, but absolutely flown through things once I did finally start them. As a result, I?m happy to report that I?ve got several series to recommend. read more

Newsletter - Review: FATED by Benedict Jacka by Michael
Fated is an urban fantasy novel in the same vein as the Jim Butcher Dresden Files. Except it isn?t. read more

Sleeper - Lillian O'Donnell
Continuing with our series of neglected authors who have gone out of fashion, we offer Lillian O?Donnell, who was the author of a police procedural series, featuring female detective Norah Mulcahaney which ran to seventeen books between 1972 and 1998. read more

Staff Picks and Reviews Reviews Archives

Jack's Blog: William Ryan Review
The twenty-year period between 1919 and 1939 was in Europe an absolutely horrific bloody era. It featured a swinging economic depression and unemployment, revolutions, the rise of the dictators (headed by Hitler, Stalin, and Franco), vicious... read more

Recommended by Jack: Mamur Zapt
As I recently watched with growing fascination the televised events in Cairo, I was reminded that I knew quite a lot about the earlier history of Egypt of a century ago, thanks to the wonderful crime... read more

Review: The Poison Door by Steve Malley
We had a customer in the store last week looking for some paperbacks to keep him going on the flight to New Zealand. The chat was how New Zealand was supposed to be like British Columbia... read more

Wednesday Review: Pronto and Riding the Rap by Elmore Leonard
Elmore Leonard has long been considered one of the greatest of the American mystery writers. However, he is not really a writer of series. With a few exceptions, his characters do not reappear, and if they do, it is... read more

Mini Review: A Glimpse of Evil by Victoria Laurie
Many of you know that I'm a big fan of Victoria Laurie, particularly of her 'Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye' series. Needless to say, I was thrilled when home for the last long weekend that the new... read more

Review: The Kingdom Beyond The Waves - Stephen Hunt
One of the first books which I wrote about for this newsletter was the genre-defying Court of Air, Hunts' first offering in his Jackelian series. The Kingdom Beyond the Waves, which sees the return of several... read more

Review: The Moneypenny Diaries: Final Fling by Kate Westbrook
I think that we can all agree that the mark of a really good book is an ending that really stays with you. But what makes a really special book is an ending that you can... read more

Review: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Being fairly new to the murder-mystery genre, I wasn't expecting much from Stieg Larsson's "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". By the last page, I was dying to read the next in the trilogy and saddened... read more