Project Changeling
In the Martian domed city of Elysium, Serena Keilor is a young social outcast, discriminated against because of her red hair, her smallness, and her mottled complexion. Unknown to those who revile her as a worthless dirt eater, however, she's a highly effective undercover operative for Martian Intelligence who's just been handed her most difficult assignment yet.
Someone is selling Martian corporate secrets to Earth Intelligence at a time when the cold war between Mars and the motherworld is reaching a crisis point. The race is on to build an interstellar spacecraft and find the source of mysterious alien transmissions that could bring fabulous technological advancements to the winner, and the fate of Mars as an independent world hangs in the balance.
Serena's job is to confirm the identity of the spy and his Earth handler before they betray Martian secrets and destroy everything that the five corporations controlling the red planet have worked for generations to build.
Aided only by an artificial human who is a discarded prototype from the interstellar project, Serena risks her life to discover the identity of the spy while also uncovering an astonishing secret about herself and her unexpected role in the future of Mars!
PROJECT CHANGELING has been serialized in part on the blog The Speculative World of Serena Keilor. Begin reading with the Prologue!
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A Death In Winter
As the worst storm of the winter settles in, a funeral takes place in the village of Westport for an elderly Toronto crime lord who retired several years ago to the quiet beauty of Rideau Lakes.
Shortly afterward, a man is found brutally beaten to death behind the local hardware store, and Ontario Provincial Police Detective Inspector Ellie March discovers that the victim was an important employee of Dante Tassone, heir to the crime lord's vast empire.
Stuck in a snowed-in village with dangerous organized crime figures, Ellie and OPP Detective Constable Kevin Walker search for answers that will connect Tassone and his rebellious son to a violent family struggle threatening the safety of villagers and police, as the bodies begin to pile up and a deadly pandemic looms on the horizon.
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The Long Road Into Darkness
When Tom Faust retires after a successful career as an Ontario Provincial Police homicide investigator, he finds himself at loose ends. To give himself something to do and to head off an increased reliance on alcohol, Tom buys a decommissioned country church in Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada to renovate as a home -- his final stop, the place where he'll make his last stand.
However, when someone hangs a body from the rafters, he realizes his homicide investigation days are far from over. He accepts a contract offer from a Toronto security and intelligence consulting firm as a private investigator in order to gain access to the ongoing police investigation, but when the victim is identified as a former suspect in a mass murder he once investigated, Tom must re-open the files of a 17-year-old cold case to track down a killer who has returned to his brutal ways.
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No Sadness of Farewell
When human remains are found behind a barn on a property along the historic Rideau Waterway, Ontario Provincial Police Detective Constable Kevin Walker finds himself riding herd on a forensic anthropologist brought in by the coroner to supervise the removal of the bones.
But as the wildly eccentric Dr. Ash Latimer excavates the unmarked grave, the bodies begin to multiply and Detective Inspector Ellie March is abruptly forced to recuse herself from the case. Her next-door neighbour, Ridge Ballantyne, may have known the victims, and General Headquarters decides that the possibility of a conflict of interest necessitates her removal from the investigation.
As Ridge struggles to recover from a stroke, he must deal with the possibility that an old friend from Scotland and his young son may have been murdered five years ago and buried in an unmarked grave thousands of miles from home, while Ellie March fights an uphill battle against internal politics to return to the case.
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Persistent Guilt
On a cold morning in late April, a man and his dog discover the body of a young woman in the ditch alongside the picturesque Thousand Islands Parkway in Leeds County. The woman was stabbed multiple times before being dumped.
Detective Constable Kevin Walker of the Ontario Provincial Police discovers that the victim worked for an old high school acquaintance of his. Kyle Baldwin now runs a charity that raises funds for mobile medical clinics in Kenya, but he had a brief affair with the victim several years ago that ended badly. Why did she continue to work for Baldwin? Did she see someone else after breaking up with him?
Meanwhile, Detective Inspector Ellie March is investigating the mayor of a nearby city for alleged criminal wrongdoing. Now with two major cases to manage, she and Kevin Walker must determine if the mayor is somehow connected to a wider circle of crime or if Kevin’s friend, Kyle Baldwin, murdered his ex-lover in a fit of jealous rage.
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Burn Country
The much-anticipated sequel to SORROW LAKE, 2015 Hammett Prize finalist.
The latest in a series of barn fires in Leeds County turns ugly when a body is discovered inside the burned-out husk of an old hay barn near the village of Elgin.
When the victim turns out to be Senator Darius Lane, a renowned artist and social activist recently appointed to the upper chamber by the prime minister, Detective Inspector Ellie March of the Ontario Provincial Police finds herself coping with an RCMP national security team which must first assess whether the senator’s involvement in sensitive government business led to his brutal murder by forces hostile to Canada.
While Detective Constable Kevin Walker works the case files of the previous barn fires looking for a serial arsonist within Leeds County who may have killed for the first time, Ellie discovers that the intervention of RCMP Assistant Commissioner Danny Merrick, unexpectedly polite and charming, will place her directly in the cross-hairs of a homicide investigation with national repercussions!
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The first March and Walker Crime Novel
Shortlisted for the 2015 HAMMETT PRIZE for literary excellence in crime fiction!
Detective Inspector Ellie March of the Ontario Provincial Police is called in to investigate when a man from the village of Sparrow Lake is found shot to death, execution style, in a farmer's field in rural eastern Ontario.
Leading an inexperienced team of detectives, she probes beneath the wintry surface of the township to discover the victim had a dark secret--one that may endanger others in the community as well.
For young and enthusiastic Detective Constable Kevin Walker, the chance to work with Ellie March is an honour, until the situation turns ugly and unexpected betrayal threatens to destroy his promising career.
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A man in a business suit offers the protection of his umbrella to an unsuspecting woman ... and several days later she turns up dead on a river bank. The terrifying serial killer known in the press as the Rainy Day Killer is now hunting new victims in the city of Glendale ... whenever it rains.
Homicide Lieutenant Hank Donaghue leads the investigation , assisted by FBI profiler Ed Griffin and Detective Karen Stainer, as they pursue an elusive predator who leaves no physical evidence behind.
The timing couldn't be worse, however, as Karen Stainer's attention is divided between the investigation and preparations for her upcoming wedding in Virginia. Will her one chance at a personal life end in another gruesome murder, or will she survive to say her vows?
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When billionaire H.J. Jarrett is shot to death on a bike path in prestigious Granger Park, the killer is seen running away by a man who is apparently in the right place at the right time. However, Glendale Homicide Lieutenant Hank Donaghue and Detective Karen Stainer discover to their dismay that their only eyewitness suffers from a rare psychotic disorder that makes his testimony useless.
As Donaghue’s investigation focuses on the top one percent of Glendale’s social stratum, including close friends of his own mother, Stainer finds herself alone when her gut instinct tells her that their eyewitness is right after all!
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A beautiful woman is murdered in a small town in Virginia and Homicide Lieutenant Hank Donaghue is the prime suspect!
Donaghue is on vacation when he stops overnight in Harmony, a quiet little town where very little happens. Suddenly the police kick down the door of his motel room in the middle of the night and drag him off to jail on suspicion of having strangled a woman behind a bar. Although he insists he’s a cop himself and had nothing to do with it, the local chief of police won’t listen. An eyewitness claims he saw Donaghue go behind the bar where the murder took place – and the victim was Chief Askew's wife!
Stuck in a cell in a small town, surrounded by cops who are convinced he’s a murderer, Donaghue must find a way to free himself and find Marcie Askew’s killer before it’s too late. When he’s finally allowed to make a phone call he dials the number of the one person he knows can help him out of this mess – Detective Karen Stainer.
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Can you believe a little boy's claim that he was murdered in his previous life?
There are more than 2,500 documented cases of young children who have reported past-life memories. Now, homicide Lieutenant Hank Donaghue and Detective Karen Stainer are pulled into the Martin Liu cold case when a little boy begins to talk about the men who shot him “when he was Martin.” Experienced criminal investigators, they find it hard to believe the three-year-old’s claims but the boy’s uncle, Triad enforcer Peter Mah, has no such qualms. Following the boy's clues he tracks down the killers one by one and exacts his revenge.
Now Donaghue and Stainer must race to contain the violence sweeping their city while struggling to accept the incredible statements of an innocent little boy!
The first Donaghue and Stainer Crime Novel.
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A supernatural thriller from the author of the Donaghue and Stainer Crime Novel Series!
First there was the car accident that claimed his beloved wife. Then came the gruelling months of recuperation from his injuries. Now his constant companions are ghosts seeking worldly release. His new home is haunted by the ghost of a young girl demanding his help. His friends and neighbours are under attack by strange, destructive forces. Who is the Angry Man who haunts his dreams … and what does the demon controlling him want of Simon Guthrie?
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