Diamond River Books: 14 books

Drawing on the life of her great-grandfather author Shirley Skidmore recreates a gripping story of the 'coffin' ships that brought Irish famine survivors to Canada. Most did not survive the harrowing voyage but those who did were further challenged by the harsh life meted out in the New World.

Mark Zuehlke, author of the Canadian Battle Series, writes of this book,“Jan Braakman's War in the Corner offers an insightful, dramatic, and evocative examination of the experiences of one small Netherlands community during World War II. The stories of resistance patriots, German sympathizers...

A story of denial and despair, follows Kate Rothwell through her life with a doting father, an interfering mother; an unreliable husband and her own deteriorating mind. The story is set in Victoria in the 1950s.Kate Rothwell is an escapist. She denies the truth, until forced to choose between harsh reality and complete despair.Should she leave him?

`Murder on the Galloping Goose' is an investigation of serial murders with elements of romance for the investigator.Zack Ward an RCMP sergeant has been absent from work due to the illness of his wife (cancer) and then death. He has been sent to Sooke to recover from his grief where he walks right...

Serial killings at the Sooke Potholes almost gets the better of Zack Ward's personal life– he heads the RCMP detachment in Sooke – and his relentless, amorous pursuit of Cass Derby – a local business women and artist. The plot is complicated by a local and beautiful young constable stalked...

"Rowan and her team show the rest of us working in museums that we have a responsibility to enable indigenous youth to have a more important role in museums and in the broader community.I highly recommend this refreshing and illuminating story to those who believe or need to be reminded that museums...

Award-Winning Finalist in the Historical Fiction category of the 2010 International Book Awards! This is a fictionalised account of the role played by the Hotel Polski during the Nazi occupation of Warsaw. Rosa Feurmann, a Jewish partisan, infiltrates the hotel. She is detected and comes under the personal control of the Hotel’s Nazi Commandant. The experience haunts her later life.

Murder in Parksville is a classic mystery Back home in Tofino, only hours after having supper with her `new’ fiancé and her parents in Parksville, Leann is woken by police. She returns to Parksville to identify the bodies of her parents, the apparent victims of a fatal car crash. Appearances aren’t...

Retired FBI Agent Warren Marshall retreats from postwar Europe to the seedier side of late 1950s San Francisco. He supplements his income working for Harry Franks, a local private detective.He struggles to focus on his writing career but is drawn to the promise of a reunion with a woman half a world away. Will he escape the seedy underbelly of the Bay or will he meet his own end here?

Peter leaves Ottawa and travels to northern Colombia where his half-brother was killed. He meets a street kid, is advised by Father Carriere, a priest from Quebec and Maria, who tends the victims of death squads and finally Captain Santiago, a veteran of the Korean War. They all create a picture of Peter's half-brother. Peter returns to Ottawa after the murder of Father Carriere and Maria.

After the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Anna Adler, who was then known as Rosa Feurmann, was asked by the partisans to infiltrate the Hotel Polski. Rumor had it that the Nazis were attempting to lure Jews out of hiding by the sale of exit visas from Poland. Although some thirty years have...

The Circle of Beginning is a murder mystery that delves into the lives of six people who survived the second world war only to have their fears reawakened by a young American FBI agent almost nine years later. He is on the trail of a simple solution to a murder while each of them is convinced that something unfinished from the war has surfaced.

September Gales is an engaging story that minutely examines the creative spirit of Edwin, a successful painter, who for over 15 years maintains a marriage in Toronto during the winter, and a creative love affair with his soul mate and muse on Canada's West Coast each summer. Marion, his loyal...

The Mercedes Variation is set against the backdrop of the people who went `back to the land’ in the 1960s. They embraced many ‘flower power’ values, rejecting consumerism and corporate hierarchies. By re-establishing traditional rural lifestyles, they stimulated declining economies and instilled...