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Cold Dark Matter (Morgan O'Brien Mystery S.)
Pbk published May 2004 by Dundurn P at £6.99
ISBN: 1550024949
A Canadian astronomer commits suicide on a desolate mountain peak in Hawaii, and Morgan O'Brien is sent to the observatory to find his missing data. But it seems she's not the only one who needs those notebooks, and her adversary is willing to kill to get them. But why?
To find the answer, Morgan travels from the peak of Mauna Kea deep into Ottawa's past, where the darkness of the Cold War still obscures the truth.
Alex Brett has worked as a science writer, laboratory technician, field research technician, and park naturalist. After almost 10 years as a writer, editor, and press officer with the National Research Council of Canada, she decided it was time to have some fun with science, and the first Morgan O'Brien Mysteries were born.
James Hawkins
Dave Bliss Quintet: An Inspector Bliss Mystery
Pbk published May 2004 by Dundurn P at £6.99
ISBN: 1550024957
James Hawkins was a police commander in the U.K. for twenty years, and a Canadian private investigator for a further eight years. He was also director of education at the Canadian Institute for Environmental Investigations. His debut novel, Missing: Presumed Dead (2001) was shortlisted for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel.
Valerie Sherrard
Chasing Shadows (Shelby Belgarden Mystery S.)
Pbk published May 2004 by Dundurn P at £6.99
ISBN: 1550025023
Valerie Sherrard’s first novel, Out of the Ashes, introduced the Shelby Belgarden Mysteries, and was a 2003 Red Maple Honour Book and a nominee for the Arthur Ellis Award for Juvenile Fiction. It was followed by the second volume in the series, In Too Deep (2003). In addition to the Shelby mysteries, Valerie is the author of Kate (2003). She lives in Miramichi, New Brunswick, with her husband, Brent.