For fans of P.D. James and Ruth Rendell,
this series brings the classic police procedural to life
in a Canadian setting.
Even peaceful Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada, has its dark side. Aging detective Gordie MacLean and his partner Roxanne Albright must dig beneath the surface of quiet maritime communities to bring killers to justice.
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| About the Books |
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The books (in order)
In rural Cape Breton, an aging detective leads his first murder case to find a killer who will stop at nothing to guard long-buried secrets. Partnered with a young, ambitious female detective complicates his life even more.
Gordie MacLean, a 53-year-old bachelor detective is content minding his own patch of Cape Breton Island with its rugged coastal landscape and low crime rate. When the remains of a missing person are discovered though, he’s in the right place at the right time to be lead on the case. MacLean battles his sergeant’s scorn and his own demons to prove that he can hunt down the killer; a killer who will stop at nothing to protect their long-buried secrets.
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| read an excerpt |
Excerpt from Garden Girl:
Prologue August 17th, 2009
Sarah turned away. Her heart pounded with the joy of it all. The words she had just spoken were still in her mouth: “It’s my decision and honestly, I just don’t care about your opinion anymore.”
She smiled as half a dozen crows rose from the fence rail, cawing noisily in fear as the shadow of a mighty bald eagle soared above, his eye no doubt trained on his scurrying victims below. Sarah took a deep breath, enjoying the early evening breeze that carried the sound of wailing seagulls and the smell of decaying seaweed. In the distance, the sun sparkled on the choppy waters between her vantage point on Cape Breton and the mainland of Nova Scotia. Sarah was so focussed on the happy view of her future, set against the backdrop of this beloved spot, that she didn’t hear the soft sound of a length of two-by- four lumber being hefted. She didn’t see the shadow as it was swung.
In one instant she felt happier than in all of her nineteen-year life, and in the next she was in blinding pain as the weapon crushed her skull. She cried out in shock, but the sound was short-lived on her dying lips.
MORE OF THE SERIES
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| book 2 |
A murdered Cape Breton lobster fisherman draws Detectives Gordie MacLean and Roxanne Albright into a dark world lurking below the surface of a sleepy Maritime community.
Caught up in an investigation that threatens the lives of those he loves, Detective Gordie MacLean and his partner are drawn into a dark world far removed from the seemingly simple life of a lobster fisherman.
In book two of the Cape Breton Mystery series, MacLean and Albright must untangle a web of treachery to solve the mystery behind an unexplained death before innocent victims pay the price.
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| Book 3 |
A newcomer to Cape Breton, Gretha Braun is brutally murdered. Tensions between Detective Gordie MacLean and Roxanne Albright erupt, as their priorities diverge.
Leaving her past in Germany, Gretha Braun’s new life on Cape Breton Island Canada is cut short when she is brutally murdered.
With international and local pressures urgently demanding they find the killer, Detectives Gordie MacLean and Roxanne Albright sort through a suspect list that ranges from overseas to Maclean’s own backyard. Frustrated when he is relegated to a backseat role on the case, MacLean finds himself in a dispute with his partner as their priorities diverge.
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| Book 4 |
A beautiful rose. A dead man. The killer that connects them. MacLean and Albright have never confronted a case like this.
As a new crime unfolds, Detective Gordie MacLean finds himself drawn into a web of intrigue that will not only test his skills but also change his life forever.
A local horticulturist has created a new rose variety that everyone is talking about. On the day of his big reveal, though, Detective MacLean is shocked to find Tommy MacNeil’s body amongst decapitated roses in the garden center.
MacLean assumes he and his partner, Roxanne Albright, can approach the case as they have before. He doesn’t know they are hunting a killer unlike any they’ve encountered previously.
Will Gordie MacLean realize death shadows him in time?
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| Book 5 |
In the woods of Cape Breton Island, Canada, an eccentric woman is found murdered. Detectives are shocked when they investigate her past; not realizing the danger they confront.
When an eccentric woman is found murdered in her secluded home in the Cape Breton woods, Detective Gordie MacLean and his team must dig into her past to uncover the secrets that may have led to her death. In over their heads, MacLean faces tough choices to solve the crime. Book 5 of this police procedural sees big changes for the detectives.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Renny deGroot was born in Nova Scotia, Canada, a first-generation Canadian of Dutch parents.
Her novels have been shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, a Whistler Independent Book Award and a Toby Award (for best Independent Canadian Mystery). They have been awarded several readers’ awards from the U.K., Canada, and the U.S. She has published mystery, historical fiction, short stories and non-fiction.
Renny has a BA in English Literature from Trent University and studied creative writing at Ryerson University. She lives in rural Ontario with her Great Pyrenees and vacations at her cottage in Nova Scotia.
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