Quick summaries to help you find the Stonehouse book for you, or someone else

Echo Lane - Patsy has spent her life running from her past, her alcoholic mother, and a secret about a lie she told the day her little sister went missing 42 years ago. Till one day, the past shows up on her doorstep. Buy.

Inescapable: A Ghost Story - Some domineering partners don’t go away, even when they die. Buy.

Livingsky - After gender affirming surgery, Merry Bell returns to Livingsky Saskatchewan, with no connections or friends, and her new PI firm’s only case seems to implicate the powerful mayor of her hometown. Buy.

Urbane - Sequel to ‘Humane’, local PI and shapeshifting best friend discovers ex-husband is running a human trafficking ring in rural Alberta. Buy

Cashmere Comes From Goats - A lonely dentist Googles her charming piano teacher’s ex lover and discovers he has an adult son he doesn’t know about. Buy

Going to Beautiful - After his husband’s tragic death, Jake Hardy discovers there were things about Eddie he did not know. Beautiful and terrible secrets await him in small town Saskatchewan. Buy

Letters to Singapore - The one where you discover exactly what it was like to be a young Singaporean University student in Calgary in the 1980s. Buy

A Snake in the Raspberry Patch - Inspired by real life events, a small rural farming family is killed in 1971 and the neighbourhood wonders who can be trusted? Buy

Edge of Wild (book 1) or Dark Divide (book 2) Fall of Night (book 3) - The series about Waterton that thrills you, scares you, makes you happy and keeps you turning pages. (Choose any two for the mix and match deal, or buy all together in the store). Buy

Kalyna - The love-story that reminds you how much you owe your Ukrainian Grandparents. Buy

Rough - During the Calgary flood, a homeless man tries to figure out who killed his friends, while avoiding his well-meaning daughter. Buy

Mary Green - The one that is like Jane Austen writes Cinderella. And now forget the world. Buy

Jesus on the Dashboard - The one about the abandoned teenager who discovers her (former) mother has now adopted an infant. Laugh, cry, think. Buy

Humane: A local Private investigator and her newly adopted shape-shifting dog enact retribution justice on predators in Edmonton/Amiskwaciy. Buy

Something Unremembered - The one where Medieval France, Marital woe, Hockey night in Canada, and women’s rights all connect together in the end. Buy

League of the Star - The one that is like Count of Monti Cristo, and Sense and Sensibility. Epic. Buy

The Work - The one that makes you realize you always wanted to know what would happen if a Guru started a theatre group in Toronto, 1980. Buy

Few & Far -The one where a Victorian girl gets all haughty in pioneer Canada, 1900-style. Buy

Encountering Riel - The one where a poetry student is sent to ‘handle’ a rebellion, and you finally discover what all the Riel-stuff is about. Buy

All the Night Gone - After their parent’s tragic death, teenage brothers go on a road trip to find a teen girl who has become their only friend in the world. Buy

The Poor Clare - The Creepy (old) Novella; like Dracula, but with a demonic doppelgänger. Yes. Buy

Course Correction (book 1) or Collision Course (book 2) - The Canadian-to-Ukraine-and back thrilling book alternative to re-watching ’The Bourne Identity’. Again. Buy

Advice for Taxidermists and Amateur Beekeepers - The creepy novella that tells you everything you need to know about small town Alberta. Buy

Mary Barton - The classic book that is like Jane Eyre, except for about the industrial revolution. And different. Buy

Censorettes - Like Bletchley park, but in Bermuda. British women censoring mail during WW2… then a sudden murder. Very clever. Buy

The Wheaton - The funny one about the Seniors’ home. Yes, ‘funny’ & ‘seniors’ home’. Buy

Evelina - The classic book where a 17 year old from the countryside tries to survive in social London, 1775. Big words, big laughs. Buy

Lady Franklin of Russell Square - The one where you get to know the wife of Sir John Franklin, and find out what happened on the way to that Northwest passage. Buy