How can love survive a brutal time? In 1946 in North America, a child makes a grisly find in a deserted fielda discovery that opens a shuttered window on a secret dating back to the beginning of the turbulent decade. In 1941 in occupied France, Adele Georges's fruitless attempts to learn the whereabouts of her father, captured by the Nazis, lead her to a lonely young German soldier far from home. A spark between them becomes a fireand a dangerous love affair blooms across enemy lines, dooming Adele to a grim postwar existence as a despised outcast, one of the infamous "horizontal collaborators." Ostracized, tortured, tormented, she chooses a desperate escape, accompanying a war-damaged yet optimistic Allied soldier across an ocean to a new land. But there is no refuge from the past, as Adele's broken heart and shameful secret drive her deeper into despair. . . and toward a shocking outcome. Part mystery and part love storyan unforgettable and beautifully written novel of secrets, passions, and consequencesTransgression is an exceptional work of power and strange beauty.

Transgression: A Novel of Love and War

Literature & Fiction

Nichol, James W.

Dramas & Plays

Harper Paperbacks

Excerpts from the inside dust jacket: A small Northern Ontario town, Walker Devereaux, age nineteen, is in Toronto to discover the truth behind the harrowing circumstances of his early life. At age three, he was found abandoned on a country road, terrified and clinging to a wire fence.Who is he and why did his mother abandon him? Midnight Cab was inspired by a popular radio drama of the same name, broadcast on CBC in 35 half-hour episodes. This was his first novel.

Midnight Cab

World Literature

Random House of Canada Ltd.

Contemporary

Vintage Canada

Blackstone Pub

The "Midnight Cab" series features Walker Devereaux, a man who drives a cab for a living but who has aspirations of becoming a writer. In "The Mystery of the Child Holding a Dove (Episode 7)", a badly beaten young woman stays at Devereaux's for the night. In "The Mystery of the Outdoorsman (Episode 8)", Devereaux's back in Big River for the holidays. A chance meeting in a bar leads to the truth about his father's death.

Midnight Cab: The Mystery of the Outdoorsman (Paperback Audio)

Dh Audio

Midnight Cab: The Mystery of the Great Man

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

It is the late 1960s, and Hagar Shipley’s days are drawing to an end. In the course of an afternoon, Hagar’s life unfolds: her childhood in a small prairie town, her Scottish immigrant father, the tumultuous relationship with her now-estranged husband, her sons, and their partners. Based on the novel by Margaret Lawrence.

The Stone Angel

Margaret Laurence

Playwrights Canada Press

Transgression

McArthur & Company

This complex, multi-layered thriller opens with a heroâ€™s welcome for the wounded Wilf McLauchlin, a celebrated WWII Canadian Spitfire fighter pilot. Almost immediately after his homecoming, a series of bizarre murders erupt in his hometown. Wilf finds himself trying to solve them and wondering if he is somehow causing them. Wilf follows his own trail back to when he was shot down over Germany in the last days of the war and makes the shattering connection. *Nominated for the Arthur Ellis Best Novel Award

Death Spiral

Mystery

McArthur & Co Pub Ltd

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