OCTOBER IS MYSTERY MONTH AT OPP
BACK CHANNEL:
YAKABUSKI MYSTERY SERIES BOOK 5
(COMING SOON: OCT. 20)
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AND YOU’LL GET A SIGNED COPY
BY AUTHOR RON CORBETT!
The river keeps secrets but the dead tell no lies…
Back Channel (A Frank Yakabuski Mystery)
By Edgar® Award–nominated author Ron Corbett
A serial killer is terrorizing a remote community on the Northern Divide. Detective Frank Yakabuski is stumped—until clues lead him to an unsolved murder nearly two centuries old. As past and present collide, Yakabuski must untangle a mystery darker and deadlier than anything he’s faced before.
From the Edgar Award– and Arthur Ellis Award–nominated series that the Globe and Mail calls “excellent” and Publishers Weekly says “rings true on every level,” Back Channel is northern noir at its finest: atmospheric, gritty, and impossible to put down.
A CAPITAL MYSTERY ANTHOLOGY
(COMING SOON: OCT. 15)
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A city of politics, passion, and poison pens…Welcome to Ottawa’s darker side.
Edited by Mike Martin and Bernadette Cox
Introduction by Ron Corbett
Featuring short stories by twenty-one of Ottawa’s best authors:
Lis Angus
Brenda Chapman
Gary Coffin
Anna Di Meglio
Stewart Dudley
Barbara Fradkin
Bernadette Hendrickx
Elizabeth Hosang
P. R. Isfeld
Joe Italiano
Jennifer Jorgensen
Kathy MacLellan
Nancy Pawelek
A.E. Pittman
Madona Skaff
Adrienne Stevenson
Katie Tallo
Ruby Urlocker
Maya Valenzuela
Joanne White
Melissa Yi
An heiress befriends a saleswoman at Ogilvy’s department store in 1955. They fall in love with the same man. What could go wrong?
An unknown assailant is terrorizing the quiet suburban neighbourhood of Riverside South. Can a young boy succeed where the adults have failed and put an end to the reign of terror?
An upmarket restaurant in downtown Ottawa is plagued by threats from a poison pen. The proprietor, the chef and a former vice cop turned major domo try to fend off disaster while cooking up a side order of romance.
A young artist travels to Bytown in the early 1850s. An employee of the artist’s uncle turns up dead, and the only clue to the killer’s identity seems to be a sketch the artist made near the crime scene. Can this sketch solve the man's murder?
These mysteries, and seventeen more, can be found in A Capital Mystery, an anthology of short stories that spans the length, breadth and history of Ottawa, Canada’s capital city.
Some of our mysteries are set in modern times, some reach all the way back to Bytown, Ottawa’s original settlement. But what each story features — whatever the setting — is a crime that will leave you wondering, or leave you shocked, or maybe, awake at night pondering if you should read one more.
A Capital Mystery is a book that celebrates the magic, history and most of all — mystery — that is Ottawa.