All Our Relations by Tanya Talaga
Reviewed by Menaka Raman-Wilms All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward is the written version of the 2018 CBC Massey Lectures....
A Joy to be Hidden by Ariela Freedman
Reviewed by Timothy Niedermann The title of this novel comes from a quote by the British psychoanalyst Donald W. Winnicott, the full...
You Owe Me a Murder by Eileen Cook
Reviewed by Wendy Hawkin This is no Throw Momma from the Train. These are high school kids in their senior year, messing with each other...
The Wolves of St. Peter’s by Gina Buonaguro & Janice Kirk
Reviewed by Gail M. Murray This compelling historical murder mystery set in Renaissance Rome begins “It wasn’t the first time he’d seen a...
Vantage Point by Scott Thornley
Reviewed by Jim Napier In 2011 Toronto-based author Scott Thornley launched his debut novel, Erasing Memory – praised by no less than...
A Little Warmth with ORB's February Issue
The claws of winter hold us firmly in their grip, and there is no escape from the Arctic vortex; no escape but to curl up with a good...
The Ghost Garden by Susan Doherty
Reviewed by Ian Thomas Shaw Susan Doherty's The Ghost Garden is a tour de force. Not simply because it reaches into the lives of the most...
Beirut Hellfire Society by Rawi Hage
Reviewed by Timothy Niedermann Rawi Hage’s fourth novel, Beirut Hellfire Society, takes us back to Beirut, Lebanon, the setting for his...
Though the Heavens Fall by Anne Emery
Reviewed by Wendy Hawkin In the prologue of this historical novel, Anne Emery reveals that the title is derived from a Latin phrase...
Darkest Before the Dawn by Mike Martin
Reviewed by Jim Napier Ottawa-based Mike Martin can be considered the Norman Rockwell of maritime Canadian crime fiction. For those who...
