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Callie finds herself spending summer break camping near her cousin's house so that Callie's mother can lead a protest against the closure of the small local school, and while there reconc

It's been 20 years since Crang, the Toronto criminal lawyer with the single name and the smart mouth, last sleuthed his way through deep trouble and tricky cases.

Cause a "poker face" ain't just a song by Lady Gaga. Crang is a criminal lawyer.

Classic Batten—on the rocks. Jazz. Cocaine. Vietnamese triads. Dope-dealing yuppie lawyers.

Presenting the three titles in the acclaimed Barkerville mystery series. This series based in 1860s British Columbia focuses on strange events in the life of teenager Ted MacIntosh.

This special three-book bundle contains all three novel’s in Jack Batten’s Crang series.

“Like a fine wine, the [Crang] series — and its protagonist — have aged well.” — The Toronto Star “Not to be missed.” — The Globe and Mail Jack Batten's hard-boiled Crang series returns with

At a time when gay communities were hidden worlds, Crang needs to root out a killer and do his best to right a grave wrong.

The smart-talking, wise-cracking, jazz-loving criminal lawyer has got a taste for straight vodka and a nose for trouble.

Mystery-solving criminal lawyer Crang returns to investigate the disappearance of two rare books.

Rana’s on the team — but is he still all alone? Short-listed for the 1996 Silver Birch Award As a Sikh living in small-town British Columbia, Rana knows he is different.

Short-listed for the 1999 Sheila A.

Short-listed for the 1990 CLA Book of the Year for Children Award Moving to Soda Creek, a former Gold Rush boomtown in the Cariboo region of interior British Columbia, Kelly Linden and her father

Moving with her mother from Vancouver to Wells, British Columbia, Elizabeth Connell longs for the excitement of the city and her father, brother, and friends left behind.

The result of a cross-Canada contest for the best short stories about young people’s experience of loss and grief, Dark Times is a superb anthology about a topic that often remains hidden but is cr