At the turn of the last century, sleek steam liners carried a fortune in silk from the Orient to Vancouver. The costly material, insured by the day, was rushed to New York in specially designed silk trains, which became the target of every crook acr...
An unscrupulous prospector promises John Granville a fortune to find a gold mine that legend says is protected by more than secrecy. Torn between his pledge to find a missing child and his vow to redeem his late client’s promises, Granville finds h...
"There are two things that stick in my mind about the Stewart affair -- the look of surprise frozen on the face of Ed McMather's corpse, and that first meeting with Cassie Stewart." A cheating husband. A lying client. A celebrity death. Artist-turned...
One sweltering June night, local Midville girl Sadie Driscoll vanishes. Same night the circus leaves town. Coincidence? Her loser boyfriend doesn’t think so. And he hires me to prove it. I shoulda known better…...
He's coming for dinner. The words sang in her mind, the tune the same as it had been when they’d first met, so many years before. He's coming for dinner. And how will she celebrate all that they’ve been to each other? Find out, in Rabbit Stew.A s...
An island retreat. An impossible murder. Too few suspects -- and your client is one of them. Did Barbara's new client commit a strange murder on a small island in the Straight of Georgia? Saving her client means Barbara must sort truth from fantasy i...
Silk Trains. Fan dancers. Opium Dens
More dangerous than chasing Klondike gold
At the turn of the last century, sleek liners carried a fortune in silk from the Orient to Vancouver. The co...
Biker gangs. Threatening tenants. Your best friend charged with murder. What would you do? Barbara O’Grady swears to find the killer and clear her friend. But can she? Frantic to clear her best friend, Barbara still can't ignore the cry for help fr...
Working flat out to finish the paintings for the show she never thought she’d have, artist-turned-P.I. Barbara O’Grady vows “no more impossible cases.” Until Marie Deslauriers storms into her office and begs Barbara to find her missing sister...
When John Granville commits to finding young Rupert Weston, he and his fiancée Emily Turner face treachery on a scale they never imagined. Hired to find a remittance man who is suddenly heir to an Earldom, John Granville quickly learns the fellow ha...
Kathleen Marshal is the primary suspect in a strange murder on a small island in the Gulf of Georgia. Barbara’s best friend swears Kathleen is innocent -- and hires Barbara to prove it. But saving her new client means Barbara must sort truth from f...
Private investigator Barbara O'Grady has vowed "no more impossible cases". But this one hits a little too close to home.
A desperate client storms into her office and begs Barbara to find her missing sister. Against her better judgment, Barb...
In the midst of the Klondike gold rush, some gold claims are paying off with big nuggets, others with nothing but rocks. Competition has never been fiercer. With everything at stake, some are prepared to make their own opportunities. Regardless of th...
When a young Englishman is accused of murder and fraud, Granville and Scott take the case as a favor to a friend. Even though the two of them know more about searching for gold than they do about real estate fraud.The resulting scramble to extricate ...
When human bones are found in a vat of lye on Steveston’s notorious Cannery Row, John Granville is determined to find out why. In a time of frontier brawls and broken dreams, the fishing industry is vital to the survival of the young province and t...
Former artist Barbara O’Grady is now a seasoned private investigator who is finally living her dream -- until all hell breaks loose. Anna Lang -- assistant manager at the internationally acclaimed Zanthus art gallery and herself a promising artist ...
In the midst of the Klondike gold rush, some gold claims are paying off with big nuggets, others with nothing but rocks. Competition has never been fiercer. With everything at stake, some are prepared to make their own opportunities. Regardless of...
After her very successful art show, P. I. Barbara O'Grady returns to her office ready for life to get back to normal--only to discover her assistant has accepted another impossible case. With a client who is possibly Barbara's least favorite perso...
The Hidden City Murders opens on a sultry August day in 1900. John Granville and Emily Turner have just wrapped up the Cannery Row case, and are ready for a well deserved break. Alas, it is not to be.Granville’s indispensable lawyer is under attack...
In 1900, sleek steamliners bridged the vast distance between the Far East and North America. On the West Coast, they brought rare goods and news to cities that still held elements of the rough and tumble frontier. Creating a perfect breeding ground f...
P. I. Barbara O'Grady has built her reputation on impossible cases, but the Swiss art dealer facing fraud and betrayal at her internationally known art gallery takes impossible to new heights. Someone has it in for Annegret Carli and her renowne...
In 1868, a boy's father vanishes on Barkerville's gold-rich creeks. Thirty-two years later that boy, now a father himself, hires Granville and Emily to find out why. Can they solve this very cold case? To find the answers their client needs, Gra...