Novels by Vicki Delany

Vicki Delany - Novels of Suspense and Mystery in the Canadian North

	In the Shadow of the Glacier - September 2007 from Poisoned Pen Press Trouble is brewing in the small, bucolic mountain town of Trafalgar, British Columbia. An American who came to Trafalgar as a Vietnam War draft dodger has left land and money to the town but there’s a catch: the money must be used to build a garden to honor draft dodgers. This bequest has torn the close-knit, peaceful town apart. Then the body of a leading opponent is found in an alley, dead from a single blow to the head. Constable Molly Smith is assigned to assist veteran Detective Sergeant John Winters in the investigation. But Winters doesn’t want the help of the enthusiastic rookie, and suspects that he’s been assigned Smith for political reasons – her mother, a life-long activist, is the leader of the group arguing for the park. Egged on by a muck-raking TV personality, outside agitators from both sides are soon streaming into Trafalgar, while Smith and Winters search through small-town secrets for a killer. Winters is haunted by a recent failure of judgment, and Smith just wants to be a good cop, and a good daughter, in a town where “a substantial number of the residents had seen her performing as Number Two Wise Man in the Grade Three Christmas pageant.” In the Shadow of the Glacier is the first in first in a traditional mystery series featuring Constable Smith, Sergeant Winters, and the town in the shadow of the glacier, Trafalgar British Columbia.

	Burden of Memory - Poisoned Pen Press - June 2006 September 1939. A beautiful Irish maid realizes that her scheming has led to a fatal mistake. A strong-willed nursing sister prepares to head for Europe, and war. September 2006. A biographer arrives at a grand, historic cottage on Muskoka’s Millionaires’ Row to assist the matriarch of the wealthy Madison family with the writing of her memoirs. Moira Madison was born to a luxurious childhood, raised between the wars as the pampered daughter of a wealthy family. But she was determined to make her own life for herself and served as a Nursing Sister in the Canadian Army during World War Two and international aid worker for many years after. Her story is a fascinating one, her personality even more so, and Elaine Benson is eager to dive into the research. But the original biographer died her first week on the job, and something is moving in the dark woods beyond reach of the sparkling lights of the great home. Burden of Memory shifts from the luxurious world of lakeside summer homes between the wars to the horrors of the Battle of Britain and the allied push through Italy, to a very modern woman caught up in the swirl of forces beyond her understanding. As the timeless change of the seasons brings autumn to the lakes and forests of Muskoka, an enduring wrong seeks retribution and a new one struggles to take shape. Read the Reviews Poisoned Pen Press Website

	Scare The Light Away March 2005/Poisoned Pen Press After thirty years of attempting to escape her past Rebecca McKenzie comes back to the little town in Northern Ontario where she was raised, to attend her mother's funeral. But the past will not be forgotten. Read the Reviews Poisoned Pen Press Website

	Whiteout NEW: Vicki's first novel, Whiteout, has just been re-released by Worldwide Library. Only available from the publisher or through book clubs, it is the unbelievably low price of $4.99 ($5.99 in another country that shall remain nameless). Click here to have a look.

Image Unavailable	GoldDigger: A Klondike Mystery Coming - 2009 It's the spring of 1898 and Dawson, Yukon Territory, is the most exciting town in North America. The great Klondike Gold Rush is in full swing and Fiona MacGillivray has crawled over the Chilkoot Pass determined to make her fortune as the owner of the Savoy dance hall. Provided, that is, if her 12-year-old son, growing up much too fast for her liking; the former Glasgow street fighter who's now her business partner; a stern, handsome NWMP constable; an ageing, love-struck, ex-boxing champion; a wild assortment of headstrong dancers, croupiers, gamblers, madames without hearts of gold, bar hangers-on, cheechakos and sourdoughs, and Fiona's own nimble-fingered past don’t get to her first. And then there’s a dead body on centre stage.

	Eppie Award Winner Whiteout LTD Books A novel of suspense, with a dash of murder and a pinch of a ghost story, and one very modern woman, just trying to find her way through life.