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Includes ""Cold Wave"" by Marcelle Dubé, winner of the Crime Writers Of Canada Award of Excellence for Best Short Story. Western Canada. A vast and varied land of hidden coastal islands and inlets, towering icy mountains, wind-tossed ranges and wheat fields, and cold lakes that keep their secrets. These are its stories. In ""The Potluck Brigade,"" visit a dying Alberta town and a senior citizen trying to cope with murder as well as her own failing mind. The police procedural ""Local Intelligence"" follows a young RCMP constable in an isolated coastal town facing a most unusual collection of flotsam. In ""Salty Dog Blues,"" the crew and passengers on a west coast cruise ship confront a mystery involving a verrry annoying little passenger. In the Yukon, ""Cold Wave"" forces a lone cross-country skier to choose between personal safety and saving her friends. ""News on the Buckhorn"" brings us to British Columbia ranch country in a taut suspense tale of a timid young girl dealing with the mutilation of her show horse. Visit the prairies early in the Great War when a North West Mounted Police officer investigates an unlamented death in ""Autumn is a Time for Dying."" An Okanagan bed and breakfast owner takes the stage in the rollicking ""A Midwinter Night's Scream"" to solve a tinsel-draped celebrity death. Finally, in ""Pickled to Death,"" a small BC town's annual Pickle Festival descends into chaos for a peck of unusual characters following the untimely demise of a pickle aficionado. From thrilling to wistful to laugh-out-loud funny, these short stories draw the reader into a Canadian West where maple meets murder.

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