Bøger udgivet af UNIV OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

Alicia Anderson is pumped to start her new job as a detective. As she enters her new office, her partner announces that they have caught a new case. A murder case.Alicia is ecstatic with her luck, until she hears the body has tentatively been identified as Jessica Winters.Could this be her son Luke's ex-girlfriend?Is Luke involved with her death?Where is Luke and why can't she get in touch with him?As Alicia starts her new career, she must walk a tightrope between her responsibilities as a detective, a detective who must find out who killed this innocent girl, and a mother who must protect her son at all costs against a murder charge.If you like Linwood Barclay or Chevy Stevens's story telling, you won't be able to put down this compulsively addictive story.

The master vintner at Chateau Lambert Estates, Jean-Paul Chouinard, stares up the rise at the family cemetery, where the darling of the house was laid to rest yesterday. The grave site is surrounded by four men and a woman. The people whose service Mireille Lambert was in when she died. One of them was her lover. One of them is Drake Alexander.Chouinard knows what they do. He knows who Alexander is. He hears the whispers. Vigilantes.He grieves knowing the brothers who are responsible for his daughter's death twenty years ago have not been apprehended. Maybe it's been too long. Maybe the brothers are already dead. Maybe, if he asked, Alexander and his people could find them.

Join Helene Hadsell each day as she has breakfast, goes about her morning routine, and regales you, dear reader, with her serious, silly, and sermonish observations about the GLAD-SAD-MAD of life in her third book of wit and wisdom. She shares her secrets in a vibrant, warm, and folksy manner, unique only to her. GLAD - Helene was grateful for every moment her life held. All of them. She was GLAD she was blessed to experience all the ups, downs, and all arounds. SAD - Helene didn't like to dwell in the SAD of life, but she knew it was unavoidable on this human journey. She focused on learning from any lesson that brought with it sorrow. MAD - Helene wasn't interested in existing. She wanted to LIVE. Have adventures. Savor every moment of her life. She was fighting MAD when and if anyone tried to take that away from her. Messengers and miracles. Self-awareness and soul contracts. Points to ponder and past lives. Thought forms and telepathy. Synchronicity and sermons. Yes! Helene had experienced all of these antics and more! In the 80+ years, Helene was in a physical body on planet earth; she had one daring adventure after another.