More by Mel Bradshaw

Quarrel With the Foe

A Paul Shenstone Mystery

978-1894917285

$18.95

After surviving the horrors of the Great War, Paul Shenstone works as a police detective in 1920s Toronto, rooting out petty criminals and rum-runners. The unusual murder of a prominent industrialist gives him the biggest case of his career and a not entirely welcome opportunity to make his name on the force. The waters are muddied when the investigation starts uncovering connections between the deceased Digby Watt and soldiers Shenstone knew in Flanders. What will Shenstone’s choice be if he has to arrest one of his own comrades? He has promised Watt’s attractive and independent daughter that he will bring the perpetrator to justice, but bonds forged in war are not easily broken. In the end, what does justice require, restitution or punishment?

“... vividly written, tightly plotted, meticulously detailed and replete with richly developed characters.”

— London Free Press

Death in the Age of Steam

978-1894917001

$22.95

Toronto in 1856 is industrializing with little time for scruple or sentiment. When Reform politician William Sheridan dies suddenly and his daughter Theresa vanishes, only one man persists in asking questions. A former suitor of Theresa’s, bank cashier Isaac Harris has never managed to forget her, despite her marriage to another man. Thrust into the role of amateur detective, he must now struggle with the demands of his job and the shortcomings of the fledgling city police. He also faces the hostility of Theresa’s powerful husband, a steamboat and railway magnate. Harris’s search takes a grisly turn when he finds human remains decked in traces of Theresa’s finery. If she is dead, who is responsible? And who cares to find out, apart from the man who wooed her too timidly and now would do anything to make up for it? This novel whirls the reader through a richly realized Victorian landscape, from Niagara Falls to Montreal to the shores of Lake Superior.

“This is a delightful, romance, mystery, and detective story, full of history and brimming with intelligent and superbly-rendered characters.”

— W.P. Kinsella

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