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Out for a hike one beautiful spring Saturday, Beryl literally trips over a body in the woods. Soon others begin springing up.

On a spring morning in 1925, Sunny Palmer disappears from her baby carriage in Picardy's restaurant in downtown Winnipeg. It happens in seconds when big sister Violet and her mother are choosing their treats from the dessert display. As those first minutes turn to days, months, t...

Collection of twenty previously published mystery and suspense stories selected by the author of The Better Sister (DB 94879). Authors include Jenny Bhatt, Nikki Dolson, Alison Gaylin, Ravi Howard, Laura Lippman, Alex Segura, and Lisa Unger. Themes include the suspense in small, ...

Inspector Frank Foote's quiet Winnipeg neighbourhood is greening into summer when a dead baby is discovered in his neighbour's rain barrel. The tiny body has evidently been in the rain barrel for some time, and there are no obvious leads in the case. Frank is a cop, and he's seen...

A grisly discovery behind the wall of an old house in Winnipeg leads former Inspector Frank Foote into the past and down the trail of the unusual Mrs. Mortimer, who'd had a short-lived business in the 1960s taking photos of the recently deceased for their families

Beryl Kyte, a letter carrier who lives in the Winnipeg neighbourhood of Norwood Flats, goes out for a hike one beautiful spring Sunday and literally trips over a body in the woods of the St. Vital Park. It's a dead woman with mushrooms sprouting in her mouth. In a panic, Beryl st...

On a summer afternoon in 1954 a jealous four-year-old girl named Cherry Ring bites her baby brother Pete on the cheek. She bites him so hard that little Pete needs a skin graft to repair the damage and will have a scar for the rest of his life. Cherry knows what's she's done is w...