Category Archives: Canada

Review: THE LANGUAGE OF SECRETS by Ausma Zehanat Khan

Posted on February 5, 2018 by bernadetteinoz

Ausma Zehanat Khan followed up her debut novel THE UNQUIET DEAD with another thought provoking exploration of the complexities of modern policing in THE LANGUAGE OF SECRETS. The two main characters are again Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty from Toronto’s Community … Continue reading →

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Review: AN AIR THAT KILLS by Margaret Millar

Posted on May 9, 2016 by bernadetteinoz

Ron Galloway is a wealthy Canadian businessman who plans a weekend getaway at his lodge with friends but never arrives. The friends – Ralph, Harry, Joe and Bill – eventually raise the alarm about Ron’s absence but it is some … Continue reading →

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Review: THE UNQUIET DEAD by Ausma Zehanat Khan

Posted on July 21, 2015 by bernadetteinoz

As someone who makes extensive use of her local library’s holds system I’m often in the situation of embarking on a book about which I know nothing. If it’s not by an author I already know, I’ve generally put the … Continue reading →

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Review: AMUSE BOUCHE by Anthony Bidulka

Posted on December 2, 2012 by bernadetteinoz

After three or four quite harrowing reads in a row I felt the need for something lighter. Not so light as to be completely without a possible murder (heaven forbid) but light enough to hopefully not need my near-empty tissue … Continue reading →

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Review: THE GUILTY PLEA by Robert Rotenberg

Posted on August 21, 2012 by bernadetteinoz

On the morning Terrance Wyler’s divorce trial is due to start his body is found on the kitchen floor by his four-year old son’s nanny. He has been stabbed seven times and it isn’t long before suspicion turns to Wyler’s … Continue reading →

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Review: This Thing of Darkness by Barbara Fradkin

Posted on November 28, 2011 by bernadetteinoz

Retired psychiatrist Samuel Rosenthal is beaten to death late one Saturday night in an Ottawa alleyway. Officially the case is being investigated by Sergeant Marie Claire Levesque, new to the Ottawa Police, and she becomes convinced the doctor was killed as part of a … Continue reading →

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Review: Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny

Posted on July 5, 2011 by bernadetteinoz

Armand Gamache is Chief Inspector of the Sûreté du Quebec and acknowledged as a fine policeman. As this book opens however he is on leave, recovering from the physical and emotional scars left by events that we don’t know the … Continue reading →

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I’ve (virtually) climbed Mount Logan

Posted on May 26, 2011 by bernadetteinoz

I’m prepared to accept that reading 13 books is not quite as rigorous a challenge as climbing the highest mountain in Canada, and I’m sure it was a lot more fun but the stages of the Canadian Book Challenge #4 … Continue reading →

Posted in Canada, Catherine Hunter, Dick Francis, Gail Bowen, Giles Blunt, Inger Ash Wolfe, list, Louise Penny, Margaret Atwood, Mary Jane Maffini, memes and challenges, Michael Van Rooy, Robin Spano, Stef Penney, Vicki Delany, William Deverell | 6 Comments

Review: An Ordinary Decent Criminal by Michael Van Rooy

Posted on May 25, 2011 by bernadetteinoz

After a strong start I’ve let my completion of the Canadian Book Challenge limp along for the past few months but have finally gotten around to reading the 13th and final book which allows me to (virtually) reach the summit of … Continue reading →

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Review: The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny

Posted on March 14, 2011 by bernadetteinoz

The Brutal Telling is my face-to-face bookclub’s choice this month and I’m also using it as the 12th of 13 books I need to read to complete the Canadian Book Challenge #4. In the fictional Quebec village of Three Pines … Continue reading →

Posted in book review, Canada, Canadian Book Challenge #4, 2010-11, Louise Penny | 9 Comments