Kirjahaku

In the early summer of 2021, two graves are discovered in the woods of beautiful St. Joseph Island, just a kilometer or two from Ontario Provincial Police Detective Andy Blake's home. Forensics and police records fail to identify the elderly woman and younger man.The story begins back in 2007, two years before Andy joined the Sault Ste. Marie OPP. Her partner was brand new then, handling his first case, a prominent widow abducted from her elegant home in the city.After months of effort, Arnold Terry is unable to name a suspect in her presumed murder. Against regulations to the contrary, he fails to close the file, keeping it among his personal effects.Fourteen years later, Terry is unaware of the graves until Andy describes the estimated age and description of the exhumed bodies. Only then do Andy and Terry tie the two cases together. But Andy is stumped by the same issues Terry faced back in 2007; the prime suspect had an airtight alibi.Solving the mystery comes from an unexpected source: Andy's son Tim and his lovely young bride. The fallout from the events results in life-changing consequences for Andy and her ultimate love, Grant Stacey.

Without warning, Detective Andy Blake's personal life seems to be spinning out of control. She already has enough on her plate dealing with the opioid crisis that has crippled her hometown of Sault Ste. Marie. Adding to that are her efforts to balance it all with an admitted infatuation with the charming Dr. Campbell who is on special assignment advising the health responders dealing with a new threat: a pure form of the drug fentanyl that has added to the crisis.Meanwhile, a young boy with special needs and a young couple become integral to the intriguing outcome of Andy's investigation.

Ordered to clear up a backlog of unsolved cases, Detective Andrea Blake and her partner find a curious abundance of missing persons escalating over the past eight years. An ominous thread of similarity weaves among the cases. It's beginning to look more like serial murder.

A serial killer at large.Detective Andy Blake's life couldn't have been better. Her love life with Grant Stacey is on track, and she is happy in her new job with the Ontario Provincial Police. But her tranquil life on beautiful St. Joseph Island is interrupted with a simple request to take over the investigation of a two year old poisoning death.The routine case turns complicated when curiously similar unsolved deaths are discovered over a period of several years, and cyanide is a common thread. Adding to the turmoil is Dan Graves, a renaissance man if there ever was one, and a contender for Andy's affections. She finds herself pulled in all directions before coming to grips with the A Scent of Almond.

It is November 11, 1968, fifty years to the day since the armistice of the Great War.. The seventy year old German diplomat Jurgen Stern is in Ottawa, Canada on a special assignment. He rescues a portfolio mistakenly left behind in his hotel lobby by a man near his own age. Inside are drawings that are obviously from a soldier's perspective of WW1. One of the sketches is so intriguing he is compelled to find this man and learn the truth about it.The story reverts back to 1916 when Brian MacLennan, a farm boy from northern Ontario joins the Canadian Expeditionary Force. At the same time, young Jurgen Stern has been conscripted by the Imperial German Army. Their experiences in that brutal war are followed until they become entangled in a way that will take fifty years to unravel. The two men face the consequences of those events a half century in the past and must put them right.

It is 1801 when two lives begin a journey that will intersect thirteen years later at the explosive conclusion of America's war with Britain.A young bride sets out from Scotland to a Canadian fur trading outpost only to find her life entwined with an intriguing Voyageur. A runaway thug from the streets of Baltimore finds himself in the Ohio Militia, bound for a final showdown with the British in Northern Canada.The tragic conclusion two hundred years in the past becomes a mystery for present day cop Andrea Blake to solve. History and passion are intertwined in Forgotten Roots.

It's 1941, and Riza Manceda, a beautiful American intelligence officer, needs someone to impersonate a Japanese officer for a dangerous mission to her homeland of the Philippines. Her search uncovers the ideal man in Daniel Suhiro, a first generation Nisei with perfect credentials for the job...but maybe not so perfect.The mission is to prevent the Japanese from discovering the Allies have broken their "unbreakable" Purple code. This secret could shorten - or lengthen - the war by years, and is known by an officer captured in Luzon. Riza and Daniel train to either rescue the officer or, if necessary, assassinate him.The compelling story of their harrowing venture meticulously comes to life as the pair becomes drawn closer to each other and then thrown headlong into incredible peril.

Enormous profits from counterfeit prescription drugs secreted into the USA from Canada are funding a Neo-Nazi group dedicated to changing the ethnic face of North America.Windsor Ontario police inspector Andy Blake is recovering from a line of duty knifing that sends her home to beautiful St. Joseph Island, at the headwaters of Lake Huron. Instead of a peaceful recovery, Andy is thrust into the middle of a murder investigation that involves Grant Stacey, the boy she left behind twenty-five years ago.The investigation pits her against killers ruthless enough to do anything to keep their supply from Canada intact, as well as the Islanders who are supplying them.