Bøger af Brenda Chapman

Small Towns can be MurderEleven-year-old Matt Clark is staying in the outlying village of Ashton for the summer while his parents work out their separation. He's been told to keep his head down and to stay off social media. Labour Day has come and gone, and Matt believes he'll be home soon, completely unaware that someone has been posting his photo and location on one of the sites, and trouble is on its way.Detective Liam Hunter gets the call - a double murder and a missing boy. While he spearheads the investigation, true crime podcaster Ella Tate undertakes her own search for the killer with mixed results. Meanwhile Homicide and Major Crimes is undergoing a major upheaval and the top position is up for grabs as Hunter's partner struggles to keep her job.The rainiest September in recent history proves a fitting backdrop for this haunting story of lies, betrayal, and deadly repercussions.Reviews: Editor's Pick! "Chapman's gripping, emotionally resonant third Hunter and Tate mystery quickly grabs readers' attention ... Standout procedural of a cop and podcaster chasing a killer and a missing boy." - BookLife"If you're looking for a mystery with intrigue, heart, a finely drawn setting and relatable characters finding their way through tragic circumstances, Fatal Harvest is for you. Brenda Chapman knows how to tell a story and is, quite frankly, one of the most readable Canadian mystery writers of our time." - Anthony Bidulka, author of Going to Beautiful, Crime Writers of Canada 2023 Best Crime Novel"...Chapman delivers her trademark twist. You may think you know what is going on. But you don't. As with the earlier books in this series, the plotting is strong and the character development consistent." - Glebe Report"This was hugely readable and compelling. And there are enough dangling threads regarding the principal characters to make Book 4 a must!" - Susan Rothery, Editor

When Last Seen is the second in the Hunter and Tate Mystery series, featuring Detective Liam Hunter and Ella Tate, true crime podcaster and contract reporter.

While the major crimes unit is investigating the mysterious death of a young single mother, Kala Stonechild has to deal with her niece's father coming back into her life.

One summer can change everything. It's 1971, and Darlene's life is about to change as family mysteries are solved and the idealistic teen figures out what to do with her life. This is a coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of "peace, love, rock and roll," and the Vietnam War.

When the body of a sixteen-year-old-girl is found at a wilderness lodge, Officer Kala Stonechild puts her vacation on hold to find the murderer.

Jennifer is worried about her best friend Ambie, who has been secretly e-mailing the biological father she has never met. This story deals with themes of belonging, friendship and loss. While Jennifer struggles to find her place in a family separated by divorce and with friendships marked by change, she must learn how to rely on herself.

Feeling somehow to blame for her father's absence, thirteen-year-old Jennifer Bannon struggles to hang on to her dream that he will return and they can be a family again. However, hope quickly turns to horror when Jennifer witnesses an event that threatens to tear apart her family and perhaps destroy the life of someone she loves.

After her mother's suicide, Maja Cleary turned her back on her family and Duved Cove, Minnesota--until a desperate phone call reveals that her father has been murdered and her brother Jonas is the prime suspect. The frigid, stormy Minnesota landscape sets the mood as she battles against time, the local police and the relentless snow.

Convicted child molester Jane Thompson has made parole, but one month later the body of the student she was found guilty of abusing is found on the shores of Lake Ontario. Sergeant Rouleau assigns Officers Stonechild and Gundersund to head up the murder investigation, but things quickly get ugly, and not just with the case.

When Adele Delaney and her daughter go missing, Kala Stonechild and Paul Gundersund investigate. Adele's body soon turns up - dead, with no sign of her daughter. Struggling to keep the case on track and her own life under control, Stonechild learns the dead woman had ties to a Montreal biker gang and heads to Quebec to find the missing piece.

Jennifer Bannon agrees to spend her summer as a camp counsellor with her best friend and her younger sister. But her summer in the isolated wilderness on Georgian Bay turns into a roller coaster ride of suspense. Not all is as it appears, and Jennifer is quickly entangled in camp mysteries and the deep secrets of girls in her cabin.

Fourteen-year-old Jennifer cannot face another boring summer at home. She convinces her mother to let her spend July at her grandmother's cottage in Hawk's Creek. But Hawk's Creek holds dark secrets, and Jennifer is soon drawn into the troubled world of Audrey Musquash, a Native girl accused of stealing.