Wright, L.R.

Menace - An Edwina Henderson Mystery

From Canada's queen of suspense, a dark and complex mystery, the second book in the Edwina Henderson series.

Eddie Henderson has been promoted. She is now in charge of the RCMP detachment in Gibsons, British Columbia - a force of fifteen officers and two civilians. While she is busy trying to get to know her staff, a woman reports a theft and then another reports a break-in. At first Eddie considers both complaints insignificant, even trivial. But as she and her new second-in-command begin to investigate, they are led into a dangerous confrontation with a stalker, obsessed with a woman who lives alone. His rage is rapidly escalating, and he seems set to kill.

An intricately crafted story told from four different points of view, Menace is a chilling novel of suspense from one of Canada's most celebrated mystery writers.

The Suspect (Crime, Penguin)

Sleep While I Sing (Viking Novel of Mystery and Suspense)

Nobody knew who she was, this attractive blonde propped up against a tree in the rain. Nobody knew where she was going on this secluded stetch of the Sunshine Coast highway of British Columbia. But had someone considerately dropped her off here with her hair combed, her face clean, and her throat slashed.

Much as they'd like to, nobody in the sleepy hamlet of Sechelt knows anything about the death. So Staff Sergeant Karl Alberg has to start from scratch. But he finds his mind being distracted by Cassandra Mitchell, the local librarian with whom he has an on-again, off-again relationship, and her infatuation with a flirtatious actor visiting from Los Angeles. As Alberg struggles to separate jealousy from suspicion, the killer stalks the sleepy town, and only another murder can lead Alberg to the horrifying truth.

A Chill Rain in January

To Alberg, the death of Benjamin Strachan was baffling. Had his ultimely demise been precipitated by a drunken fall down his estranged sister's besement stairs? Or something far more sinister?

Alberg's search for the truth takes him to British Columbia's Sunshine Coast--and into the secluded home of Zoe Strachan, a woman of seductive beauty and shattering secrets. At the same time, Alberg investigates the sudden disappearance of an elderly widow from a village nursing home... a disappearance he doesn't connect with the Strachan case until it is almost too late---and the two seemingly unrelated events converge in a chilling act of violence and evil that will challenge Alberg's utmost powers of perception as a detective--and as a man.

Love in the Temperate Zone

Love In the Termperate Zone

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Prized Possessions

From the Edgar Award-winning author of The Suspect and A Chill Rain in January comes a superbly crafted story of love, hate, and murder...

RCMP Staff Sergeant Karl Alberg is at a crossroads. Coping with the death of his father and his own inexorable slide into middle age, he must make a decision about his relationship with his lover of eight years, Cassandra Mitchell. Restless and in desperate need of distraction, Alberg finds a project to fill the time during his bereavement leave: looking into the all-too-neat disappearance of a local man on the morning after his sixth wedding anniversary. Ultimately the case converges with another, as the very messy life of a simpleminded Vancouver stock boy spills over into the small coastal town of Sechelt, in an explosive climax of shocking, unforgettable violence.

Fall from Grace

MIDSUMMER MADNESS
It's midsummer in British Columbia, and it's hot. Murderously hot, as RCMP Staff Sergeant Karl Alberg finds when his day at the beach with his ex is cut short by the discovery of a fresh corpse. And back in Sechelt, a nuisance call from an eccentric redneck swiftly leads Alberg into a psychological Gordian knot and a second crime a decade old.

Redneck Herman Ferguson is unkempt, unpleasant, and possibly dangerous. His long-suffering wife wants nothing to do with his assortment of caged wild animals, concentrating instead on feeding the kids and dodging blows. But Herman has it in for another misfit--a mumbling elderly woman who lives alone with innumerable cats. And the wife, well, she has it bad for Bobby Ransome, a muscular, charismatic high school dropout and ex-con.

In her masterful style, award-winning author L.R. Wright weaves a chilling tale of jealousy, gossip, and the tangled affairs of young men and women who loved one another long ago. And she shows once again why her mysteries have been praised as "every bit as good as the novels of Ruth Rendell and P.D. James" by People magazine.

Touch of Panic

Gordon Murphy doesn't look insane. But he is. He doesn't look dangerous. But he is. He doesn't look like a murderer. But he is.

Murphy has been looking for the perfect woman since he turned forty. Now that he's fifty, he thinks that Cassandra Mitchell fills the bill. The fact that she is living happily with RCMP Staff Sergeant Karl Alberg is completely irrelevant.

While Muphy plots to ensnare Cassandra, Alberg is preoccupied with a rash of crime on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast. An epidemic of bizarre robberies, an unpleasant young couple who are snatching their children back and forth from each other, and a drug-related murder all distract Alberg from the deadly menace that threatens his lover.

If Alberg doesn't act soon, Cassandra is about to become Woman Number Five in Gordon Murphy's murderous history.