The Inspector Green Mysteries
Breaking news!
The twelfth book in the popular Inspector Green series will hit the bookstores on January 21, 2025. It will also be available in Kindle and Epub versions. Book launches are planned in both Toronto and Ottawa. The events are free and everyone is invited, so bring a friend. The more the merrier!
And in other news...
The first seven books in the series including two award winners, have been reissued in a larger format with updated covers. The most recent is This Thing of Darkness.
"For those who like a solid classic mystery with added character, Inspector Green is perfect."
The Globe and Mail
The award-winning Inspector Green series is set in Canada's Capital, a city of rich cultural and geographical diversity, and features the impetuous, exasperating Ottawa Police Inspector Michael Green, whose passion for justice and love of the hunt often conflict with family, friends and police protocol.
Do or Die introduced Inspector Green in 2000, a forty-something working-class man with a young family, a busy wife, a fractious daughter from his first marriage, and an elderly widowed father who survived the Holocaust. There are currently ten novels in the series, which has garnered two Best Novel Awards, as well as two additional nominations, from Crime Writers of Canada. The tenth, None So Blind, released in 2014, turned Inspector Green's life upside down and forced him to face his past, as well as chart a new future. In The Devil to Pay, his search for new ways to stay involved lands him and his daughter in trouble, and in the upcoming Shiprecked Souls, the death of an elderly Ukrainian woman leads Green into an emotional journey into his own past.
All twelve Inspector Green novels are available in trade paperback and e-formats. All but the latest two are also available as audio books.
Ottawa River
Although based in Ottawa, the cases frequently lead Green on investigative jaunts to other Canadian locales like Halifax, Montreal, and Gananoque. In the ninth novel, The Whisper of Legends, Green finds himself in Nahanni National Park in the Northwest Territories, on unfamiliar and terrifying turf.
Check out the book links below or on the left for more details, reviews, and excerpts from the novels.
DO OR DIE, Dundurn Press, Toronto,2000/ 2022
IBSN: 978-0929141787
ONCE UPON A TIME,Dundurn Press, Toronto, 2002/2022
ISBN: 978-0929141848
Shortlisted, Best Novel
MIST WALKER, Dundurn Press, Toronto, 2003/2022
ISBN:978-1894917032
FIFTH SON, Dundurn Press, Toronto, 2004/2022
ISBN: 978-1-894917-13-8
Winner, Best Novel
HONOUR AMONG MEN, Dundurn Press, Toronto, 2006/2022
ISBN: 978-1459751064
Winner, Best Novel
DREAM CHASERS, RendezVous/ Dundurn Press, Toronto, 2007
ISBN: 978-1-894917-58-2
THIS THING OF DARKNESS, RendezVous/ Dundurn Press, 2009
ISBN: 978-1-894917-85-8
BEAUTIFUL LIE THE DEAD, RendezVous/ Dundurn Press, 2010
ISBN: 978-1-926607-08-5
THE WHISPER OF LEGENDS, Dundurn Press, 2013
ISBN: 978-1459075678
NONE SO BLIND, Dundurn Press, 2014
ISBN: 978-1459721401
Shortlisted, Best Novel
THE DEVIL TO PAY, Dundurn Press, 2021
ISBN: 978-145-974-3847
SHIIPWRECKED SOULS, Dundurn Press, 2025
ISBN: 9781459753815
News in brief
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The death of an elderly Ukrainian woman leads Green on an emotional journey into his own past.
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Released in Sept. 2016!
And garnering lots of great reviews. Thanks to readers everywhere for your support.
Shortlisted for Best Novella! Breaking news; The Night Thief is nominated for the 2016 Arthur Ellis Award.
Shortlisted for Best Novel!
Barbara is thrilled ro be nominated for the 2015 Best Novel Award by Crime Writers of Canada.
Shortlisted for the Ottawa Book Awards! Barbara is thrilled and honoured that The Whisper of Legends is among the finalists for the 2011 Ottawa Book Awards.
Great reviews!
The reviews are beginning to come in for None So Blind. Check out Publishers Weekly, Quill & Quire, and The National Post.
Superlative Reviews!
The Whisper of Legends has received numerous excellent reviews, such as The Globe and Mail, The Ottawa Citizen, and The National Post.
Nominated for 2013 Best Novella!
Evil Behind that Door, the latest Cedric O'Toole Rapid Reads novel, has been shortlisted for Best Novella by Crime Writers of Canada.
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