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Originally published in 2002 and nominated for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel
A blend of thriller, satire, and romance with a shocking twist
Romance novelist Maggie Schneider flees snowy Canada for Costa Rica, seeking inspiration … and maybe even a romantic encounter. She finds far more than she expected when she's kidnapped by a rag-tag gang led by a handsome, charismatic revolutionary called Halcon: the Falcon. Also held hostage...
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Arthur Beauchamp mysteries volume 1
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Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Mystery Novel, 1998
Winner of the Dashiell Hammett Award, 1998
Arthur Beauchamp, one of Vancouver's most heralded criminal lawyers, has moved to a quiet island off the British Columbia coast. He's trying to recover from a marriage gone sour, but his retirement is interrupted by his former law partners - they want Arthur to take charge of the defense trial of Jonathan O'Donnell, the acting dean of the law school....
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Twenty members of a cult are found massacred on an isolated island on Canada's West Coast. Their leader, Shiva Ram Acharya, is brought to trial, and the great Arthur Beauchamp defends him, assisted by his junior counsel Max Macarthur. Shiva claims to have amnesia and refuses to participate in his own defense. But Macarthur gradually becomes convinced of his innocence, embarking on the greatest challenge of his career - a dangerous quest for the true...
4) Needles
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A prosecutor fights a drug trafficker - and his own heroin addiction - in this thriller from a Dashiell Hammett Prize– and Arthur Ellis Award–winning author
"Deverell has a narrative style so lean that scenes and characters seem to explode on the page. He makes the evil of his plot breathtaking and his surprises like shattering glass." - Philadelphia Bulletin
"Spell-binding, first-rate." - Buffalo News
Lawyer Foster Cobb's objective is...
5) Mecca
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Arthur Ellis award—winning William Deverell's 1983 bestseller
An extremist warlord is about to unleash the world's deadliest shock troops. The Rotkommando - an army of expert terrorists, political fanatics, and psychotic killers - is armed with a failsafe masterplan. Codeword... Mecca.
Now the Rotkommando is poised on the brink of a crazed kamikaze mission to nuke Israel and ignite World War III. Only three people on Earth have the power to stop...
6) Mindfield
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A psychological time bomb is triggered in Kellen O'Reilly as he begins to experience disturbing "flashbacks" to his unresolved and turbulent past.
It is winter in Montreal. Dr. Satorius, head of Coldhaven Manor, a psychiatric clinic just outside the city, is taken to court by former patients. He is accused of conducting unorthodox drug-testing and brainwashing experiments there twenty-five years earlier.
The much-publicized trial and the full-scale...
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Living in the Northern California town of Foolsgold, widowed lawyer Oliver Gulliver is headed for a midlife crisis. It doesn't help that his eighteen-year-old daughter Elora has fallen in love with alcoholic former rock star C.C. Gilley. But then C.C. quits drinking and gets to work on a comeback album. Things actually seem to be looking up-until C.C.'s car is stolen, with his priceless demo tape inside.
In no time at all, another band is all over...
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Arthur Beauchamp volume 9
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PREVIOUS BOOK IN SERIES: STUNG, ISBN 9781770415959. In book nine of the 'Arthur Beauchamp' series, Arthur writes a memoir that he hopes will set the record straight about a spectacular murder case he fought as a young lawyer in 1966. William Deverell lives in on Pender Island, BC.
9) Mind games
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Dr. Timothy Dare, a forensic psychiatrist for the criminal courts in Vancouver, is on the verge of a breakdown. His wife has left him, and his practice is in disarray. On top of that, his newest patient is a man who murdered his previous shrink and now Dare believes his own life is in danger. The only way forward is to consult a psychiatrist himself and confront the real source of his inner turmoil.
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Arthur Beauchamp mysteries volume 3
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When someone begins systematically killing judges in British Columbia, Arthur Beauchamp, a retired lawyer and now a goat farmer, is dragged back to court to defend the man accused of the murders.
11) Snow job
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Arthur Beauchamp mysteries volume 4
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Arthur Beauchamp moves to Ottawa, and all hell breaks loose
Arthur Beauchamp has followed his wife, the leader and first elected member of the Green Party, to Ottawa. But, he hates it there: the cold, the politics, the apartment, his place in his wife's shadow. So when a diplomatic delegation from Bhashyistan is blown sky-high on Bronson Avenue and the shares of a Calgary-based oil company promptly drop like a stone, in no time at all, he's tangled...
12) Stung
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In this eighth entry of the 'Arthur Beachamp' series, lawyer Arthur Beauchamp is facing the most explosive trial of his career: the defence of seven boisterous environmentalists accused of sabotaging an Ontario plant that pumps out a pesticide that has led to the mass death of honeybees. The Toronto trial concludes with a tense, hang-by-the-fingernails jury verdict.
13) April fool
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Arthur Beauchamp, a retired lawyer, now a hobby farmer on B.C.'s Garibaldi Island, is dragged back to court to defend an old client who has been accused of raping and murdering a psychologist.
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Arthur Beauchamp mysteries volume 5
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When new evidence emerges a wily old lawyer is forced to revisit his first murder trial, and what went horribly wrong.
15) Whipped
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Montreal journalist Lou Sabatino is sucked into the quirky world of a conniving Russian dominatrix who has secretly recorded herself putting the whip to the bare bottom of a high-ranking federal cabinet minister. If Lou breaks the story, he risks exposing himself to the mercies of the Mafia. Instead, he shows the video to Green Party leader Margaret Blake. The video is leaked, and Margaret is sued by the minister for 50 million. Now Arthur Beauchamp,...
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Arthur Beauchamp mysteries volume 6
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In a moment of career restlessness, Arthur Beauchamp decides to switch sides, just once, and prosecute a man charged with murdering a clown. Beauchamp is confident he can prove the man is guilty. The early middle aged Arthur is surprisingly blind to how precarious the evidence is, and to the fissures opening in his personal life.
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