Stray Bullet

From the bestselling author of Old City Hall comes Robert Rotenberg’s third intricate mystery set on the streets and in the courtrooms of Toronto. In The Guilty Plea and Old City Hall, critically acclaimed author Robert Rotenberg created gripping page-turners that captured audiences in Canada and around the world. In Stray Bullets, Rotenberg takes the reader to a snowy November evening. Outside a busy downtown doughnut shop, gunshots ring out and a young boy is critically hurt. Soon Detective Ari Greene is on scene. How many shots were fired? How many guns? How many witnesses? With grieving parents and a city hungry for justice, the pressure is on to convict the man accused of this horrible crime. Against this tidal wave of indignation, defense counsel Nancy Parish finds herself defending her oldest and most difficult client. But does anyone know the whole story?

William S. Burroughs arrived in Mexico City in 1949, having slipped out of New Orleans while awaiting trial on drug and weapons charges that would almost certainly have resulted in a lengthy prison sentence. Still uncertain about being a writer, he had left behind a series of failed business ventures—including a scheme to grow marijuana in Texas and sell it in New York—and an already long history of drug use and arrests. He would remain in Mexico for three years, a period that culminated in the defining incident of his life: Burroughs shot his common-law wife, Joan Vollmer, while playing William Tell with a loaded pistol. (He would be tried and convicted of murder in absentia after fleeing Mexico.) First published in 1995 in Mexico, where it received the Malcolm Lowry literary essay award, The Stray Bullet is an imaginative and riveting account of Burroughs’s formative experiences in Mexico, his fascination with Mexico City’s demimonde, his acquaintances and friendships there, and his contradictory attitudes toward the country and its culture. Mexico, Jorge García-Robles makes clear, was the place in which Burroughs embarked on his “fatal vocation as a writer.” Through meticulous research and interviews with those who knew Burroughs and his circle in Mexico City, García-Robles brilliantly portrays a time in Burroughs’s life that has been overshadowed by the tragedy of Joan Vollmer’s death. He re-creates the bohemian Roma neighborhood where Burroughs resided with Joan and their children, the streets of postwar Mexico City that Burroughs explored, and such infamous figures as Lola la Chata, queen of the city’s drug trade. This compelling book also offers a contribution by Burroughs himself—an evocative sketch of his shady Mexican attorney, Bernabé Jurado.

"The poems in this collection examine issues of identity, positionality, desire and unity from the perspective of a First Nations woman of mixed blood. Through the blending of voices, traditions and memories from First Nations and European cultures, the poems represent a challenge to re-define notions of authority, identity and genre"--Back cover

In the wild west, a young girl named Connie is orphaned as a child, when her parents and brothers are murdered by a corrupt Sheriff. As the only survivor of his rampage, she is left with Tommy and Billy Chamberlain and their father, who own a farm outside of town. As they grow older, she and Tommy get engaged. When they run into hard times after the death of Tommy and Billy's father, and the bank is requesting more money. They go into town and try to negotiate with them. When they are met with no options to save their farm, they go to a saloon to have a drink and meet up with Jr., who has a plan that will help them save their land and resolve their money issues once and for all. In the same saloon, after a fight breaks out over a bad hand of poker between Jr. and another poker player James and his companion Irene, they all realize that they could all help each other. Eventually, they form the Chambers Gang. From this point on, they begin a whirlwind tour of robbing banks, making friends and making enemies. With one stray bullet that no one is expecting. There is a lot of action, twists and turns and surprises. Some that are so unexpected and some that are, you will not be able to put this book down. Features & Details Pages: 224 Genre: Fiction

DID CANADA'S FAVORITE RADIO HOST COMMIT MURDER Kevin Brace, Canada's most famous radio personality, stands in the door of his luxury condominium, hands covered in blood, and announces to his newspaper delivery man: "I killed her." His wife lies dead in the bathtub, fatally stabbed. It would appear to be an open-and-shut case. The trouble is, Brace refuses to talk to anyone -- including his own lawyer -- after muttering those incriminating words. With the discovery that the victim was actually a self-destructive alcoholic, the appearance of strange fingerprints at the crime scene, and a revealing courtroom crossexamination, the seemingly simple case takes on all the complexities of a hotly contested murder trial. Meantime, much to everyone's surprise, the Leafs are making an unlikely run for the Stanley Cup.

Chihiro Murakami works at a film advertising firm and looks up to Kiyoharu Honna, the stylish editor of the trendy magazine his company does business with. He’s cool, his smile is beautiful, and he’s good at his job. But Chihiro hasn’t had a chance yet to get close to him. However, one day he ends up looking after a dead-drunk Honna and goes home with him and … !? A selfish beauty and the man wrapped around his finger.

Stray Bullet is the debut book in a new series of Thrillers based around the characters of Harvey Walters and Jack Shaw. Rear Page Information; A police detective wakes up in a hospital bed with a bullet wound to the chest and an impaired memory. Told he's a hero, somehow he doesn't feel heroic despite saving the Vatican envoy's life... When his parents are killed in a car accident, Jack Shaw's devastation leads him down a path of self destruction; until an unconventional friend comes knocking and lures him into a world where he can learn to live again whilst exorcising his inner demons... As Jack and Harvey's paths cross, a dark secret is revealed, a secret which will endanger both their lives... "In Stray Bullet, Simon Duringer has given us a tense, transatlantic thriller whose resolution will confound your expectations." Joe Donnachie, professional book editor.