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-- Two hundred six bones.2009., Scribner Call No: MYS Fic Rei Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Chicago forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is accused of mishandling the autopsy and the case of a missing heiress from Montreal--an investigation that becomes more complicated when two more bodies of elderly women are found in Montreal and Tempe faces the very real possibility that a colleague has sabotaged work in the lab.
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2019., Invisible Publishing Call No: QWF Fic Sur Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Grand in scope, spare in execution, and lush in language, 26 Knots is a fable-like tale of love, obsession, and everything in between. Araceli loves Adrien. Adrien loves Pénélope. Pénélope marries Gabriel, who is tormented by the search for the father he never knew. Set in Montreal, but spiralling out across Canada, Bindu Suresh’s debut novel deftly reveals the devastating consequences of betrayal and commitment, of grief and hope."--.
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2007., Hurtubise HMH Call No: FR Fic Dav Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Amours interdites Volume: tome IIISummary Note: Le printemps 1967 s'annonce et avec lui souffle un vent nouveau qui fera virevolter le destin de plusieurs des habitants de Saint-Jacques-de-la-Rive. L'heure est au bouleversement des mœurs et des valeurs. Ce que l'on nommera plus tard la Révolution tranquille s'est bel et bien installée, malgré les répliques acerbes du curé Savard, à qui Étienne Fournier et les autres membres de la fabrique répondront sur le même ton. Le maire, Côme Crevier, ne sera pas en reste, incarnant dorénavant l'autorité dans son village. Alors que tous les regards sont fixés sur Montréal et son exposition universelle, les jeunes adultes des familles Veilleux, Fournier, Hamel et Tremblay sont appelés à faire des choix. Bataille de coq, déception amoureuse, emplois prometteurs, grossesse honteuse, promesse de mariage, émancipation, perte d'enfant, tous sont emportés par le tourbillon de la vie. Nostalgiques devant tous ces changements, la génération de leurs parents se réfugie dans les souvenirs. Étrangement, la relation chaotique qu'entretiennent Bertrand Tremblay et d'André Veilleux leur rappelle celle, aussi houleuse, de leurs grands-pères Eugène et Ernest.
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Ã2016., Livres DC Books Call No: QWF Fic Hen Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Everything seems broken in Suzanna Ricci's life. Only 42, her marriage to Len has disintegrated. Her relationship to their teenage boys, Robin and Logan, is in need of repair. Now her mother, 'that martial soul, ' wants her to restore the family home in Acqua Sacra, damaged by earthquake. And she doesn't care how many trips from Montreal to their vivid Italian patria of Abruzzo her daughter has to make. At least when Len, a dodgy accountant, encourages her to take a job with a Montreal law firm headed by a man named Robert Bliss, Suzanna feels hopeful of being freer of her ex. Until she realizes the crazy cost of disentangling herself, and not just from him or his 'associates.' Old World skepticism kicks at New World concerns in Acqua Sacra, Keith Henderson's brisk new novel about private deception and public corruption. His cast includes an honest architect, a gutsy office clerk, the modern-day witch of a drained lake, and at least one (reformed) dirt-digging lawyer. But what is Suzanna to do when the mob and their extralegal cross-border political shenanigans invade her life? While Montreal's underworld seems as full of venomous snakes and mean dogs as the Abruzzo mountains, Roman history, Italian mafiosi, dutiful Canadians, and migrant African workers collide, headlong and bizarrely comedic. At the centre of the crash, stunned and sheep-like, lies Suzanna. Henderson, the author ofThe Roof Walkers, again delivers an entertaining and perceptive story in Acqua Sacra about the nature of personal responsibility, this time in an age of multinational delinquency. If Suzanna survives the wreckage, it'll be by honouring the true meaning of 'family' in any global village."--
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c2001., Boréal Call No: FR Fic Lab v.2 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Gout du bonheur Volume: 2
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c2011., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: Fic Hay Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In a small prairie school in 1929, Connie Flood helps a backward student, Michael Graves, learn how to read. Observing them and darkening their lives is the principal, Parley Burns, whose strange behaviour culminates in an attack so disturbing its repercussions continue to the present day. Connie's niece, Anne, tells the story. Impelled by curiosity about her dynamic, adventurous aunt and her more conventional mother, she revisits Connie's past and her mother's broken childhood. In the process, she unravels the enigma of Parley Burns and the mysterious (and unrelated) deaths of two young girls. As the novel moves deeper into their lives, the triangle of principal, teacher, student opens out into other emotional triangles <U+2013> aunt, niece, lover; mother, daughter, granddaughter <U+2013> until a sudden, capsizing love thrusts Anne herself into a newly independent life. This spellbinding tale <U+2013> set in Saskatchewan and the Ottawa Valley <U+2013> crosses generations and cuts to the bone. It probes the roots of obsessive love and hate, how the hurts and desires of childhood persist and are passed on as if in the blood. It lays bare the urgency of discovering what we were never told about the past. And it celebrates the process of becoming who we are in a world full of startling connections that lie just out of sight."--Inside jacket flap.
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2019., Esplanade Books Call No: QWF Fic Nic Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Montreal is in the grips of a summer heatwave, when searing temperatures have a way of making residents cast aside their better judgement. A young twenty-something works the night shift at a call centre, her only company is the disembodied voices of the customers who call in to complain. She spends her night off drinking with her friend Louis at "their" bar, while her successful boyfriend sleeps. His career allows her the pleasures of his spacious, modern condo, a new existence. She likes feeling undefined, still up for grabs, even as the middle-class trappings of her relationship threaten to shape her. In the stifling humidity of such surroundings, her life is turned upside down when she grows obsessed with Mia, a beautiful woman she meets one night at the bar. Then there's the woman who's gone missing, whose face is constantly on screens across the city. How can she stern the drift away from her relationship, she worries, when her former lover, who was both violent and magnetic, is always in her thoughts? all these orbits are set to collide, as the heatwave shows no sign of breaking and emotions reach record highs. .
![Aphelia : a novel \](/Library/images/~imageCT100349.JPG "Aphelia : a novel \")
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c2012., General, Brindle & Glass Call No: Fic Cam Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Anglophone Imogene Jackson grew up in an English suburb on the uneasy edge of a francophone world. At the age of nineteen she quit college to marry a shoemaker from the close-knit French village of Saint-Ange-du-Lac. For ten years she has lived with her husband, Thomas, above his family's historic shoe shop, immersed in village life. When Thomas dies in a car accident, she is shattered and her hard-won mastery of the French language deserts her. Isolated and grief-stricken, she retreats to her childhood home. There she discovers that a petty drug dealer she knows from the village has rented a ramshackle farmhouse, nicknamed the "Apple House," at the corner of her parents' street and befriended her easily influenced brother Petey. Her childhood obsession with the old house resurfaces and she finds herself confronting events from both her recent and more distant past as her two worlds collide. Set in 1970s Quebec and written with a gentle humour, The Apple House is an intimate portrait of life during a time of great change.
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-- Autour d'elle2018., Talonbooks Call No: QWF Fic Bie Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Heartily sincere, human, and compassionate, Around Her is a multifaceted novel that explores, through the words and reflections of a large community of characters, the bonds that unite us, and love in all of its manifestations the love that one finds, that one loses, destroys, desires, or recovers. In the mid-1990s, a sixteen-year-old girl, secretive and vulnerable, gives birth to a healthy boy in the anonymity of a Montreal hospital. She gives him up for adoption a parting that will affect, perhaps even govern and determine, all successive stages of her adult life. Around Her traces twenty years of the lives of Florence Gaudreault and her estranged son Adrien through the prism of twenty characters who have crossed their paths and who, each in turn and with their own unique voice, tell their story. Patiently assembling disparate points of view, those of the young, the old, the families, the couples, or the lonely souls, this novel, replete with emotive twists and turns, probes the failures and hopes of a whole segment of society, revealing the proximity of past traumas. Around Her is a highly emotional book, written with stylistic virtuosity, and populated with a complex kaleidoscope of voices. Author Sophie Bienvenu has a tangible gift for portraying real-life, contrasting characters, and revealing their idiosyncratic and evolving streams of consciousness. Around Her is Bienvenu's fiction at its best, rigorously authentic, wholeheartedly humane, and delightfully vulnerable."--.
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By Zorn, Alicec2011., Adult, NeWest Press Call No: QWF Fic Zor Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Joelle is about to lose her husband Marc, who has become obsessed with Ketia, a young Haitian woman. Ketia lies to her family to conceal her liaison with Marc. Joelle's friend Diane does not realize that her boyfriend Nazim has never told his Muslim family in Morocco about her. Then Nazim gets a letter that threatens his secret. Alice Zorn leads readers into the lives of a diverse cast of characters struggling with conflicting cultural values and the demands of intimacy. Set against the busy urban mosaic of Montreal, Arrhythmia is a study of betrayal: the large betrayals we commit against our loved ones, and the smaller ones we commit against ourselves."--Back cover.
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2015., Adult, Biblioasis Call No: QWF Fic Arc Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "With its stories of innocent young girls and wild beasts, attempted murder and ritual mutilation, haunted houses and road trips to nowhere, Samuel Archibald?s Arvida, the portrait of a remote mining town in French Canada, reads like a Proust-obsessed Cormac McCarthy. A 25,000-copy Bestseller in French, it does for northern Quebec what Faulkner did for the south."--Publisher.
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c2015., General, Minotaur Books Call No: MYS Fic Bea Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Martine LeDuc is the director of PR for the mayor's office in Montreal. When four women are found brutally murdered and shockingly posed on park benches throughout the city over several months, Martine's boss fears a PR disaster for the still busy tourist season, and Martine is now also tasked with acting as liaison between the mayor and the police department"--Publisher.
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2021., Uncle Ralph's Publishing Empire Call No: NEW MYS Fic Cha Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Thirty years after fighting crime and corruption in the 1980s, Dale Hunter and Frank the Fixer are now drawn into more current criminal activities as they try to rescue a niece kidnapped into sex trafficking and online pornography by Russian gangsters in Boston. Dale and Frank follow a treacherous trail into the dangerous and violent international sex trade that also exposes Frank’s tragic family history in Africa and more violent threats closer to home in Montreal. It starts with a phone call to Frank the Fixer and leads us through a complicated network of gangsters and Mafia families in their murderous competition for the lucrative business of sex trafficking and online pornography. A secretive Montreal Mafia figure is assassinated and deals are made to extricate the innocent young victims from competing interests. Tough tactics and insider knowledge are required, but more violence and murders cannot be avoided.
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2021., Baraka Books of Montreal Call No: MYS Fic Kin Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Annie Linton, Detective Bellechasse Mystery Novel Volume: 2Summary Note: Michaela (Mickie) Bédard works at the Stevens, Bédard Investment Bank, a bank founded by her great grandfather. She is working on an Initial Public Offering for a technology company. Walking home one evening she suffers a severe asthma attack and heads to Montreal’s Gursky Memorial Hospital. Triaged by Annie Linton, she is kept in the hospital overnight. During her stay, an unknown assailant attacks Mickie in her room. When a murder victim is discovered at the Gursky, Detective Sergeant Gilles Bellechasse is called upon to investigate. The investigation leads Gilles to New York and to a network of shady characters operating in New York and in Montreal who are trying to steal the deal from Mickie. The investigation is further complicated by three more murders. King brilliantly combines the best elements of a cozy with a gritty police procedural in a novel full of twists and unexpected turns. Annie’s clever insights are critical in solving the crimes. Banking on Life is the second Annie Linton, Gilles Bellechasse mystery novel. Recovering bookseller Montrealer Richard King once again reveals his keen sense of metropolitan life in Montreal and New York City.
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2014., Adult, Flammarion Québec Call No: FR QWF Fic Pen Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Three Pines Volume: 8Summary Note: Caché au creux d'une forêt sauvage du Québec, le monastère Saint-Gilbert-entre-les-Loups n'admet aucun étranger. Vingt-quatre moines y vivent cloîtrés. Ils cultivent des légumes, élèvent des poules, fabriquent du chocolat et prient. Ironiquement, la communauté qui a fait vœu de silence est devenue mondialement célèbre pour ses chants grégoriens, dont l'effet est si puissant qu'on le nomme 'le beau mystère'. Cette harmonie est rompue par l'assassinat du chef de chœur et l'intrusion de l'inspecteur Armand Gamache et de son adjoint Jean-Guy Beauvoir. Les enquêteurs cherchent l'accroc dans ces vies consacrées à l'amour de Dieu, mais cette retraite forcée les place aussi face à leurs propres failles. Pour trouver le coupable, Gamache devra d'abord contempler le divin, l'humain, et la distance qui les sépare.
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2012., Minotaur Books Call No: QWF MYS Fic Pen Edition: 1st ed. Availability:2 of 2 At Your Library Series Title: Three Pines Volume: 8Summary Note: When a peaceful monastery in Québec is shattered by the murder of their renowned choir director, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir of the Sûrete du Québec are challenged to find the killer in a cloistered community that has taken a vow of silence.
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2012., Macmillan Audio Call No: CD Fic Pen Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Three Pines Volume: 8Summary Note: When a peaceful monastery in Québec is shattered by the murder of their renowned choir director, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir of the Sûrete du Québec are challenged to find the killer in a cloistered community that has taken a vow of silence.
![The beautiful mystery [CD]](/Library/images/~imageCT75388.JPG "The beautiful mystery [CD]")
