Nothing bad ever happens in Raymond's River, Nova Scotia. It's a safe, small town, where everybody knows-and trusts-everybody else. When a pillar of the community is found dead in his own barnyard, people get a little concerned. When they find a bullet in his head, people get scared; who would shoot an old farmer on his own land? Understandably, even quiet, small town folk are prone to hysteria now and again.... Homicide Detective Sergeant Jim Mcdonald and Corporal Scott Bowen are called to the scene of the crime. Although they don't always work together, they make a great team when...

Nothing bad ever happens in Raymond's River, Nova Scotia. It's a safe, small town, where everybody knows-and trusts-everybody else. When a pillar of the community is found dead in his own barnyard, people get a little concerned. When they find a bullet in his head, people get scared; who would shoot an old farmer on his own land? Understandably, even quiet, small town folk are prone to hysteria now and again.... Homicide Detective Sergeant Jim Mcdonald and Corporal Scott Bowen are called to the scene of the crime. Although they don't always work together, they make a great team when...

George Wilson has disappeared from his farm in Raymond's River, a small community in rural Nova Scotia. His wife, Connie, is in a frantic state. Was George mugged, robbed and left for dead somewhere? That's a possibility. George didn't believe in banks and always carried a wad of cash in his wallet. Did he get drunk and put his truck into a ditch somewhere? Again, a possibility. George and strong spirits were no strangers to each other. Or did he pack his bags and head for the lure of the big bucks to be made in the oil fields of Alberta? Always a chance of that. George believed an infusion...

During the Great Depression of the 1930s thousands of people throughout the world lost their means of livelihood. In Nova Scotia and across Canada, many took to the roads and railroads looking for work. They left home with just what they could carry and in most cases that didn't include money. They trusted to the generosity of the communities they passed through for food and shelter. This book is a series of short stories about the many men who passed through the central part of this province and of the people who welcomed them into their homes. It is told from the point of view of those that...

Most people at one time or another daydream about finding a huge stash of money and speculate what they would do with it. It usually starts off with spend, spend, spend, then the reality of being discovered with someone else's money sets in. The mind goes into overdrive trying to surmount all the eventualities. A Bag of Money embraces and overcomes these problems in what I believe creates a different and interesting approach. This dilemma faces usually honest, upstanding citizen John Lester. While leisurely walking through the woods with his dog, Danka, he stumbles across a hockey bag full of...

Homicide-detective Jim McDonald tackles the most challenging murder case of his career. Only he believes there has been a murder committed. And for him, it is not belief, it is fact. Three apparently unrelated accidents have claimed three apparently unrelated victims in Halifax. The first, a wildly successful businessman who roamed the highways of Nova Scotia in his armor-plated Cadillac as if he owned the roads. The general consensus suggested he could afford to own them many times over. The second, a middle-classed salesman type who was just trying to grind out a daily living....

The super-rich, commonly called the 1%, believe there is nothing money can't buy. Dot-com billionaire Keith Grant intends to put that belief to the ultimate test when he goes after the killer of his friend and business partner Craig Flint. He tries to assist the police in any way they can use his help but soon realizes they are tied-up with rules and procedures that slow down the search rather than assist it. At this point, he goes rogue. Anything that works becomes his credo. Does justice prove to be one of those things beyond the ultimate reach of an unlimited supply of money? Not if Keith...