Books

The Angels’ Share explores how one leap of faith can transform one’s entire world. When thirty nine-year-old Dion (short for Dionysia) leaves a meaningless government job and non-existent love life in Canada to help her American father and grandmother avoid losing the family winery in Crete to a dangerous Russian oligarch, she cannot imagine becoming a criminal. Soon though manipulations by the Russian offer no way out.

Shortlisted for a British Rubery Books Award in 2024, and the Quattro Books Ken Klonsky novella award in 2018.

When a woman caught breaking into a Century stone house won’t tell anyone her name, not police, not social workers, not even a lawyer, the judge remands her to a mental health hospital’s forensic psychiatric unit for assessment.

Cally’s Way is an adventure about love and loss, mothers and daughters, and the way historical horrors shape our identities whether we know about them or not.

Set in Crete, the novel interweaves the 2002 story of Cally, a 25-year old business graduate, with the World War II story of Callisto, her grandmother, who was a runner in the Cretan Resistance. Cally’s mother was born on Crete but has always refused to talk about it. Now she has died, leaving one instruction: that before she starts her first job, Cally should visit her mother’s homeland.

The Oak Island Affair was a 2008 U.S. Next Generation Indie Award finalist in the General and Adventure categories.

The Oak Island Affair takes readers into the history of an international, multi-million dollar treasure hunt on a little island off Canada’s east coast. Vanessa a freelance writer, is fleeing the pain of an unraveling relationship when she goes to her grandmother’s house on Canada’s east coast, near Oak Island.

Shortlisted for an Arthur Ellis Award in 1994, Dead And Living was selected for a Carleton University literature and law course reading list in 2002.

Dead And Living is a novel based on the true story of a man who did not know, for 25 years, whether he was a murderer. Finally he went to court to find out. A psychological ‘whodunit,’ Dead And Living is also an adventure story about the creative power of the human spirit, about memory, passion and duty, and about the dance between truth and justice in Canada.