Take a walk through the magazine aisle at your local
bookstore, and it’s obvious that there’s
been a dramatic shift in Canadian reading habits.
The number of magazines that deal with entertainment,
gossip and celebrity has increased dramatically,
while the number of “hard information” magazines
has remained the same...more.
The Lesnik Show Premieres by
Corwin Sullivan
Of course, Lesnik didn’t
want that message to accompany him quite everywhere
he went.
Lesnik never quite figured out why he’d been
granted a leitmotif. Eventually he stopped worrying
about it, but that didn’t happen for years.
In the first few weeks, particularly, he could hardly
keep his mind on anything else...more.
Lea Kovacev, a promising high school student, is
missing. That she ends up dead will come as no surprise
to fans of Barbara
Fradkin. Dream Chasers is her sixth novel,
all of which are set in Ottawa. The setting is not
merely for the author’s convenience (Fradkin
lives there); Inspector Green fans know that where
the body is found is as important to the solution of
the crime as any other evidence...more.