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A Stranger in Town by Kelley Armstrong

Reviewed by Wendy Hawkin In the sixth installment of the Rockton series, Kelley Armstrong takes us back to the town’s beginnings, so much...

ORB Pre-Summer Reading Issue May 2021

Our May edition of the Ottawa Review of Books is an all-fiction issue. The reviews take us from present-day North Korea to ancient...

The Last Exiles by Ann Shin

Reviewed by Timothy Niedermann Ann Shin’s affecting debut novel, The Last Exiles, is an attempt to pull back the curtain on the lives of...

The Occidental Hotel by John Bentley Mays

Reviewed by Ian Thomas Shaw An eccentric novel, The Occidental Hotel, will not be of interest to many CanLit readers. Mays does not...

Without Blood by Martin Michaud

Reviewed by Jim Napier Martin Michaud is an established author whose crime novels are the basis for an award-winning series featured on...

Deception Cove by Owen Laukkanen

Reviewed by Wendy Hawkin Just this week, I read that books with a dog in them are “enchanting” while books where a dog dies are...

Lone Jack Trail by Owen Laukkanen

Reviewed by Wendy Hawkin What do you do when your new lover is accused of murder and you’re not really sure of his guilt or innocence?...

The Rose Guardian by Lorina Stephens

Reviewed by Robert Runté It starts with a funeral. Una Cotter is dead, and her sixty-something daughter, Vi, is left to sort out her...

To Kill a King by W.L. Hawkin

Reviewed by Gail M. Murray Hawkin seamlessly weaves prehistoric Irish history (200 BCE) and Celtic mythology in this compelling...

Welcome to ORB’s Easter 2021 Issue

Ottawa’s warm days of spring offer some relief to the city’s much-beleaguered denizens, now going through a second Easter weekend under...

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