To the Alumni Association of the University of Alberta, I wish you a very happy centennial. To Sherry Brownlee, I appreciate your support for the Freewill Shakespeare Festival. To Steven Sandor, Axel Howerton, and Jason Lee Norman, thank you for recently letting me show the world some facets beyond Randy Craig. To Sharon and Steve Budnarchuk, Kelly Alanna, Barry Hammond and Michael Hare, bless you for hand-selling the whole series. To Angie and Linda and Matthew, blessings on your heads for reading it with blurbing in mind. To Kim at the Highlevel Diner, thank you for the bread pudding and the hug whenever I come in.
And thank you to the stalwart readers of this series. You are amazing: you have taken a heroine who is not quite young, not quite invincible, not quite hardened and yet definitely not cozy, into your collective hearts. By dint of your loyalty and your no doubt annoying insistence to your friends that they read an obscure mystery novel set in Edmonton, Alberta, you have turned Randy Craig into a household name. Well, a condo-sized household.
On the whole, this one’s for you.
Sticks & Stones
by Janice MacDonald
How dangerous can words be? The University of Alberta’s English Department is caught up in a maelstrom of poison-pen letters, graffiti and misogyny. Part-time sessional lecturer Miranda Craig seems to be both target and investigator, wreaking havoc on her new-found relationship with one of Edmonton’s Finest.
One of Randy’s star students, a divorced mother of two, has her threatening letter published in the newspaper and is found soon after, victim of a brutal murder followed to the gory letter of the published note. Randy must delve into Gwen’s life and preserve her own to solve this mystery.
Spellbinding …
—W.P Kinsella
...intelligent, thought-provoking and entertaining.
—Anna Babineau,
The Lethbridge Herald
This is one of those books that begs to be finished at 3 a.m. of the same day.”
—Matthew Stepanic,
editor of Glass Buffalo Magazine
Sticks & Stones / $14.95
ISBN: 9780888012562
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The Monitor
by Janice MacDonald
You’re being watched. Randy Craig is now working part-time at Edmonton’s Grant MacEwan College and struggling to make ends meet. That is, until she takes an evening job monitoring a chat room called Babel for an employer she knows only as Chatgod. Soon, Randy realizes that a killer is brokering hits through Babel and may be operating in Edmonton. Randy doesn’t know whom she can trust, but the killer is on to her, and now she must figure out where the psychopath is, all the while staying one IP address ahead of becoming the next victim.
[Janice MacDonald] has managed to convey the inherent spookiness … that a social cyberspace can invoke.
—Howard Rheingold
The Monitor / $10.99
ISBN: 9780888012845
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Hang Down Your Head
by Janice MacDonald
Some folks have a talent for finding trouble, no matter how good they try to be, especially Randy Craig. Maybe she shouldn’t date a cop. Maybe she should have turned down the job at the Folkways Collection library—a job that became a nightmare when a rich benefactor’s belligerent heir turned up dead.
Randy tried to be good—honest!—but now she’s a prime suspect with a motive and no alibi in sight.
The Edmonton Folk Music Festival, the city itself and the fascinating politics of funding research in the arts lend a rich texture to this engaging mystery with the twisty end. If you enjoy folk music, you’re in for an extra treat. Once again, Randy Craig is a down-to-earth, funny and realistic amateur sleuth: it’s good to reconnect with her.
—Mary Jane Maffini, author of
The Busy Woman’s Guide to Murder
I have been a performer at the Edmonton Folk Festival for 20 years. I always knew there were a lot of characters there, but until reading Janice’s book, I never thought of the festival itself as a character, and a fine place for a murder mystery!
—James Keelaghan
Hang Down Your Head / $16.00
ISBN: 9780888013866
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Condemned to Repeat
by Janice MacDonald
For anyone other than Randy Craig, a contract to do archival research and web development for Alberta’s famed Rutherford House should have been a quiet gig. But when she discovers an unsolved mystery linked to Rutherford House in the Alberta Archives and the bodies begin to pile up, Randy can’t help but wonder if her modern-day troubles are linked to the intrigues of the past.
Condemned to Repeat is a compelling tale of secrets from the past colliding with the present, along with a heavy dose of history and travelogue. Plus a murder or two. Not to be missed!
—Linda Wiken, Mystery Maven Canada blogger,
author, and former bookstore owner
Does for historic sites what she did for music festivals: strews corpses and intrigues in trademark MacDonald style, with giggles and gusto.
—Candas Jane Dorsey, author of
A Paradigm of Earth
Edmontonians in particular will enjoy following the genial Randy Craig through buildings and districts that are as familiar to them as their neighbours, and yet now imprinted with murder and mystery.
—Tom Long, Public Interpretation Coordinator,
Fort Edmonton Park
Condemned to Repeat / $16.00
ISBN: 9780888014153
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The Roar of the Crowd
by Janice MacDonald
Wherever Randy Craig goes, trouble seems to follow. With the help of her friend Denise, Randy has landed a summer job with a high school theatre program linked to the FreeWill Shakespeare Festival. But when a local actor shows up dead and Denise is the prime suspect, Randy has to find to a way to solve the mystery while surrounded with suspects who have no trouble lying to her face.
The Roar of the Crowd is a terrific little mystery.
—The Winnipeg Free Press
The Randy Craig books are like tourist guides wrapped in wonderfully-written mystery stories. They’ll make you want to go to Edmonton and experience the vibrant cultural scene and explore the beautiful river valley.
—Stuff and Nonsense
The Roar of the Crowd / $16.95
ISBN: 9780888014702
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Janice MacDonald is the author of eleven books, including novels, non-fiction titles, and a children’s book. She has been widely anthologized, and her popular Randy Craig novels were the first mystery series set in Edmonton. Janice has taught English literature, communications, and creative writing at both the University of Alberta and Grant MacEwan College. She currently works for the the Government of Alberta. Born in Banff, Alberta, Janice lives and writes in Edmonton. You can visit her online at www.janicemacdonald.net.
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