A severed arm washes up on Gravelly Bay, on the day a popular local Councillor is forced to resign over compromising photos leaked to media. Is there a link between the blackmail and the body of a missing nurse found in a burned out car?

DC Lucy Gauthier’s investigation leads her to a dozen missing parolees, who’ve disappeared from a contested halfway house in town.

It also leads irrevocably to a dark secret, one she’d rather keep buried. She is forced to fight against the Dead Weight of her past as it threatens to drag her under.

A gripping thriller with a twist you won’t see coming.

Discover where it all began for Lucy Gauthier, in her first case as a police constable.

Raymond Ellis, the creative, award-winning and arrogant chef of Thorny Rose, is reported missing. Niagara Police Detective Wright relentlessly pursues the investigation, unravelling a web of lies and secrets held tight within the community of vintners, foragers, artisanal growers and members of a feminist farming collective.

From the seductive ingénue pastry chef who insists chef was murdered, to the apple farmer so enraged he’d have happily done it, there is no shortage of suspects, but the chef’s wife Rose denies her husband is missing. In a series of twists Rose moves to protect herself and what matters most, whatever the cost.

In the Weeds is a tense cat and mouse, perfect for DC Lucy Gauthier thriller fans and new readers of the bestselling Niagara Noir Series.

Perfect for Niagara Noir fans and new readers to the bestselling series.

DC Lucy Gauthier is assigned to a cold case when the remains of a young woman are found–30 years after she disappeared during a rock concert.

Is there a connection between the missing girl and an aging rock star who’s writing his tell-all biography? Or with an influential local family, once involved in local media, record and concert promotion?

The victim’s mother, a famous textile artist and vintage flower child, has spent her life looking for her daughter. Can DC Gauthier finally uncover the truth of what happened years ago? Or should some secrets remain buried?

A man is found beaten to death in a cellar where he’d held a series of women captive over the years. All of them are dead, except The One That Got Away.

During the annual ice wine festival the body of an ice fisherman is found frozen in the lake, and is wife–a feral cat rescuer, is found stabbed. Do their deaths have anything to do with the gruesome death of a viticulture student, whose body is found crushed in the hydraulic grape press?

As Niagara police search for the escaped woman in the full glare of the media spotlight, DC Lucy Gauthier’s investigation looks for a connection between the murders and the missing woman. Can she find the killer and help save The One That Got Away?

An enraged farmer ploughs his truck into a crowd of protesters, setting off a seriesof murders that rock the Niagara region.

When the body of an environmental consultant is discovered dumped in a peat bog, DC Lucy Gauthier’s investigation reveals the dark secrets buried in the protected wetlands of Niagara.

In this sequel to Blood Relative, DC Lucy Gauthier is now a member of the Homicide Unit. She’s bearing the weight of her past secrets.

But is she strong enough to carry the burden of those she must now protect in Dark Water?

The body of a man is found sitting in an empty field, his wrists slashed.

A series of murders rocks the Niagara region: an investigative journalist is found floating in the canal, an elderly blind woman who may have seen too much is killed, and a corrupt police detective is poisoned in plain sight.

DC Lucy Gauthier’s investigation into the apparent suicide leads her to a local dementia care facility, where a nurse is brutally stabbed and several patients have begun having psychotic breaks. Lucy discovers the connection between the deaths and a web of corruption that lies deep beneath the veneer of the region’s touristy towns with their artisanal growers and boutique wineries. Her inquiry also leads irrevocably into her own dark past, as it threatens to obliterate her new life and expose her own bloody secret.

Lucy is gay and struggling with misogyny and her own mental health issues. She’s fought long and hard to be promoted beyond pink collar policing–but will she be strong enough to earn a place on the Homicide Unit and smart enough to outwit a calculated killer?

Blood Relative is the first novel in the Niagara Noir series–gripping crime thrillers featuring DC Lucy Gauthier of the Niagara Regional Police Force.