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Nov 10, 2024 | 
ourwindsor.ca | Steven W. Beattie
Minotaur Books, 432 pages, $40In Gamache we trust. “The Grey Wolf” marks the 19th volume in Louise Penny’s internationally bestselling series featuring Armand Gamache, head of homicide with the Sûreté du Québec. As this instalment opens, the tranquillity of Gamache’s rural Three Pines retreat is shattered by a series of intrusive phone calls from an old nemesis.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
thespec.com | Steven W. Beattie
Minotaur Books, 432 pages, $40In Gamache we trust. “The Grey Wolf” marks the 19th volume in Louise Penny’s internationally bestselling series featuring Armand Gamache, head of homicide with the Sûreté du Québec. As this instalment opens, the tranquillity of Gamache’s rural Three Pines retreat is shattered by a series of intrusive phone calls from an old nemesis.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
theglobeandmail.com | Steven W. Beattie
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Steven W. Beattie
by Steven W. Beattie | For an organization that is only three and a half years old, the Canadian Independent Booksellers Association seems surprisingly robust.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Steven W. Beattie
By Steven W. Beattie | From food and rent to clothing and everyday household items, pretty much every consumer good in Canada has had rapid price increases in recent years. Every good except one.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Steven W. Beattie
Compiled by Steven W. Beattie | FictionBuzzkill ClamshellAmber Dawn. Arsenal Pulp, Mar. Lambda Literary Award winner Dawn subverts the mode of confessional poetry in her third collection, a suite of poems that focuses on themes of disability, queerness, and desire.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
thespec.com | Steven W. Beattie
Doubleday Canada, 320 pages, $35.95When Alan Bradley published “The Golden Tresses of the Dead,” the 10th volume of his hugely popular Flavia de Luce series of cosy mysteries, in 2019, he thought that he was done with the precocious young amateur sleuth and chemistry prodigy.
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
thestar.com | Steven W. Beattie
“The Road to Heaven” by Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson, $24.99, Dundurn Press. The Road to HeavenAlexis Stefanovich-ThomsonDundurn Press, 304 pages, $24.99The debut novel from Toronto author Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson is a stylish throwback to hard-boiled crime thrillers of the classic era, with an engaging and entertaining protagonist at its heart.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
theglobeandmail.com | Steven W. Beattie
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Jun 8, 2024 | 
toronto.com | Steven W. Beattie
The Off SeasonAmber CowieSimon & Schuster, 368 pages, $24.99A man moves his new wife and daughter into a remote hotel where he is contracted to work as caretaker while the place is shuttered in the off-season. Bad things happen. If this setup reminds you of another famous book and movie, you’re not alone: B.C. writer Amber Cowie name-checks Stephen King’s "The Shining" not once but twice in her own novel.
