E.T. Meets Fast FoodIt sounds like the easiest mission ever: Go to Earth (you know, the blue planet in the middle of nowhere). Sell hot dogs. Record interactions with human beings using the loop recorder...

Most back pain books are boring. Life is short. Read this one instead.Back pain bites. It affects almost every adult in industrialized countries.Emergency physician and Medical Post columnist Dr. Melissa...

Dry eyes driving you mad?You spend hours working on your computer or staring at your phone.You turn the car’s air vents away from your eyes.Dry air or contact lenses transform you into a red-eyed beast.Friends...

Selected for The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2017 Edition, Edited by Paula GuranSeven-year-old Trenton Lo loves basketball and Star Wars and most of all, his family and Guangdong Barbecue, the...

A 13-year-old vs. a serial killer. What could go wrong? Winner of the ITW BIPOC Scholarship judged by R.L. StineKiller Nashville Claymore Award Finalist for Best Juvenile/YA ManuscriptMy mom tells me...

"Sizzling! I read the whole thing in one day, heart pounding, totally gripped by the action. Super fantastic book. I actually had to shush my kids when they tried to talk to me in the middle of one scene."...

Pharaohs' tombs. Ancient myths. Modern-day murder.Dr. Hope Sze doesn't need a trip to Egypt.She can't afford the flight to Cairo, or the cruise down the Nile, but her fiancé, Dr. John Tucker, yearns to...

HOUDINI WHODUNIT Dead Man DrowningMagic? Dr. Hope Sze steers clear of magic.But when "Elvis the Escape King" chains and nails himself inside a coffin and lowers himself into Montreal's St. Lawrence River,...

FROM HOOCH HIGHWAY TO HOMICIDEHope Sze escapes for a romantic weekend away at the Rumrunner's Rest, a Roaring Twenties inn once celebrated both for Prohibition's best alcohol and the smoothest jazz bands...

At West Vincent High School, the power couple ain’t the prom king and queen.The head janitor, Gordon Pinchuk, rules the roost, harassing everyone from the principal down to the students.Gordon saves some...

A Mohawk man who will do anything to make his two sons love him again.Three women on two different continents, spanning three different generations, linked only by blood and diamonds.A janitor plots revenge...

Drugs. Alcohol. Violence. Chaos.All in a night's work for Dr. Hope Sze, aspiring Montreal emergency physician—until someone tries to strangle her with her own stethoscope.Then Hope's lover disappears.A...

Chris would do anything for his hot, young wife.Even yoga.Even yoga at sunrise, on a Montreal ship, to celebrate spring solstice.He steps on board, braced for incense and some uncomfortable body twists,...

A story of three women, linked by blood and diamonds. The first, a Ph.D. who loves her research more than any living thing. The second, a Montreal woman who knows her bulging, aching abdomen must conceal...

One little Christmas party.Sounds harmless, except Dr. Hope Sze feels raw and unsociable at the moment.Still, Hope looks forward to the home-cooked Middle Eastern meal. And she really ought to socialize...

What if a brilliant killer stalks the halls of a Montreal hospital, and you're the only one who knows?Dr. Hope Sze dives into her family medicine residency braced for anything from newborn babies to foot...

A mother who burns for justice. The doctor who can't say no. And the killer who lies in wait.Dr. Hope Sze solved her first murder case a week ago—and almost got strangled in the process. Now she just...

Mayday. Mayday.Unstable man vs. unconscious child.Did the boy slip and shatter his neck?Did he drown in Black Donald Lake?Even if the boy hovers on the edge of death, Dr. Hope Sze could drag him back...

Camping can kill you. When Dr. Hope Sze trades the crime-ridden city of Montreal for a fishing trip with her dad, she expects misty lakes and crimson maple leaves. In other words, a perfect family fun...

 Tent flap open. Sandals still neatly lined up in front of the riverside tent. But no sign of odd Uncle Leonard, who can’t swim.Solving two murders back in Montreal made Hope Sze a touch paranoid. Should...

Nip. Tuck. Cut. Kill.Cheek implants.Botox.He's only 22 years old. What's he trying to hide behind plastic surgery?Dr. Hope Sze scours the Internet for real-life clues to this patient's past, present,...

"I've always known that if someone wants to murder me, the easiest way is through my stomach. I just hadn't expected anyone to kill me today." ―Hope Sze Felony and the FeastHope hurries to Montreal's...

The top holiday mystery recommended by CBC BooksA great mystery you need to read this summer, selected by the Mystery Panel on CBC Radio’s The Next ChapterWhen Dr. Hope Sze retreats to an Ottawa stem...

Wolf ice killed Leila's best friend.Now it's stealing Leila's self-control.Leila Fan leads her pack of Montreal werewolves to a river campground that seems like the perfect haven—until someone murders...

A Killer Flight With No Way OutWhen Dr. Hope Sze flies to Los Angeles to reunite with her soul mate, she expects Botoxed blondes with Brazilian wax jobs, not terror at 35,000 feet in the air.Yet on their...

Two doctors. One killer. One woman in labour.A killer infiltrates the obstetrics ward of a Montreal hospital just before Christmas, taking one pregnant woman and one resident doctor hostage at gunpoint.Dr....

A whisper is a soft barely audible sound or resemblance of a sound. Perhaps a thought in one's head, a flutter of leaves, a feather floating to the ground, or a wish. In this collection of ten stories...

A cornucopia of ten cozy mystery stories that are perpetrated during holidays from New Years to Christmas. This collection explores unexplained disturbances, college pranks gone wrong, and almost always...

An anthology of holiday short stories and a novella (292 pages)A former Marine, desperate for employment, takes a temp job that leads to a life-changing decision on Christmas Eve. A family locket with...

Little Blue Marble magazine's year in stories: flash fiction, microfiction, and more!Tales of our changing world by these authors from around the globe:F. J. Bergmann, Gustavo Bondoni, Wendy S. Delmater,...