Most Popular Books by L. R. Wright

This Edgar Award-winning debut kicks off the crime series—and basis for the Fox TV and Hulu series Murder in a Small Town—set along Canada’s Sunshine Coast. To Karl Alberg, the coastal town of Sechelt, just north of Vancouver, looks like the perfect place to soothe a psyche that’s been battered by big-city police work. Bees buzz among the roses, and the local librarian is attractive, intriguing, and unattached. Perhaps he has at last come in from the cold. But sunny towns can conceal a lot of secrets—some of them bleak enough to make a man yearn for some nice straightforward urban crime. In 1986 L.R. Wright’s The Suspect became the first Canadian novel to win an Edgar award, beating out titles by Ruth Rendell and Jonathan Kellerman. It went on to become a cult favorite among mystery fans, who prized its delicately etched sense of melancholy and intriguing character studies of the cop, his quarry, and the enigmatic librarian who proves an unlikely bridge between the two.

While Karl Alberg contents with a multitude of policing problems in the small town of Sechelt, businessman Gordon Murphy is set on winning Alberg''s girlfriend''s heart, and will go to disturbing lengths to do so.

The second and final Edwina Henderson mystery written by the late, much-loved “Bunny” Wright. After years of working under someone else, Edwina “Eddie” Henderson has been promoted. She is now in charge of the RCMP detachment in Gibsons, B.C. -- a force of fifteen officers and two civilians. While she is busy sizing up her staff, a woman reports a theft, and then another reports a break-in. At first Eddie considers both complaints insignificant, even trivial. But as she and her new second-in-command begin to investigate, they are led into a dangerous confrontation with a stalker, obsessed with a woman who lives alone. His rage rapidly escalates, and he seems set to kill. Battling against the clock to find her man, Eddie can''t shake the feeling that he may be closer than anyone suspects. An intricately crafted story with a diverse cast of vividly portrayed characters, Menace is a gripping novel from one of Canada''s most celebrated and best-loved mystery writers.

Alexa Martinez was raised to believe that murder, deceit, and lies were a part of life. A trained killer, she follows in her father''s footsteps, specializing in political assassinations for Martinez Security-contracted through the CIA. She thrives on the power, money, respect, and-most of all-the adrenaline rush. Despite the danger associated with her profession, Alexa strives to give her children a normal life.But when her past catches up with her, they become pawns in a deadly game of revenge. Operating from a secret base five levels below ground, Alexa struggles to unravel the puzzle, uncovering secrets that will their alter lives forever. Now she must make a choice-is she willing to die to give her children a life outside the bullet proof glass?

Leaving categories behind, Wright and his companion have a personal conversation dealing with the universal aspects of a misshapen culture, including materialism, racism, and the denial of true individualism, while expressing the complexities of being black in America.

In the tradition of P.D. James and Ruth Rendell, to whom L.R. Wright is often compared, the suspense in "Kidnap stems not from whodunnit but why. A young girl is taken from her aunt''s care while her father is in Hawaii trying to recover from his wife''s sudden death. A middle-aged woman, spurred on by an unscrupulous accomplice, tries to assuage her feelings of loneliness and despair with a dramatic act of revenge. Edwina "Eddie" Henderson, battling to assert her authority over the Sechelt''s RCMP detachment following the retirement of beloved Staff Sergeant Karl Alberg, urgently tries to put together the pieces of a mysterious psychological puzzle in time to find the missing girl.

En un pueblecito costero cercano a Vancouver un grupo de alumnos del ultimo curso del instituto celebra la fiesta de graduacion de uno de ellos. La vida de los jovenes parece transcurrir sin ningun sobresalto, pero un tejido invisible va ensartando sus actos y entrelazando sus destinos y los de todos cuantos les rodean.