Ottawa Homicide Inspector Michael Green is absolutely obsessed with his job, a condition which has almost ruined his marriage several times. When the biggest case of his career comes up, his position, his relationships and several lives are put into grave danger. A young graduate student and scio...
Inspector Green is coping with an office job, still eager to get back into the day-to-day fray of policing. His chance comes when an unidentified woman is drowned in the Ottawa River. In her possession is a Medal for Bravery from a peacekeeping mission. As Green and his team dig deeper into the m...
Innocent scapegoat or monster manipulator? Matthew Fraser was an idealistic young teacher accused of molesting a young schoolgirl and acquitted in a sensational case that left the truth hidden and the young teacher's life in tatters. Ten years later, his distraught confidante walks into Ottawa Po...
A seventeen-year-old sets out to meet her secret lover by an Ottawa waterfall. Three days later, her body washes up in the shallows. The public fears a sexual predator is on the loose, but Inspector Green suspects a more personal connection. His search for answers draws him into the world of elit...
Accident or suicide? That's the simple question put to Inspector Michael Green when a derelict stranger falls to his death from an abandoned church tower in a quiet river village at the edge of his jurisdiction. But when the victim turns out be a long lost son of a local farm family cursed in rec...
There was no turning back. The plume of dust behind me gave me away even if I’d had any place else to go. I slowed the truck so I could take stock and figure out what to say. As far as I could see, there was just one cop. He looked small standing on the front stoop, his hat pulled low and his han...
A Futureshop and an AMC theatre now occupied most of the building, their gaudy red lettering replacing the sturdy brown brick of the original façade. He recalled the only other time he’d been inside. His father, the timid immigrant tailor from Poland, had never watched a hockey game in his life b...
I hadn’t even realized I was holding it. Keeping one step ahead of Barry could make a guy dizzy. Painting is not something you can leave midway through, so I finished the first coat on the cabinets and cleaned up. It was peaceful without Barry. Afterward I explored the house. If Barry came back a...
O’Malley and headed back downtown to the station. The whole sky was an eerie pink. Green spent the drive on his cellphone, trying to track down the dark green car. Neither the families of Omar Adams or Nadif Hassan owned such a car, but David Rosenthal was still a mystery. He and his white van we...
She strode in, shut the door, and leaned against it with her arms crossed as if barring anyone else entry. “Status report on Rosten, Inspector.” “I was just about to call you.” With an effort, he put the hospital behind him and focused on the invest...
He’d barely breathed since Gibbs’s call. He didn’t dare think about what he might encounter. How dangerous was Crystal? Could she have been the killer all along? First responsible for doctoring the drugs that killed Lea and later killing the social worker who knew too much. Did she have the stren...
She curls in the nook of my arm, her hips soft against mine, And her skin like silk beneath my touch. Copper tassels of cornfield dance in the sunset And a breeze ripples the birches overhead. Far off I hear muffled thuds, catch a glint of silver in the sky. Then a plume of smoke, a second, a thi...