2016 - Voices from the Valleys is a collection of fiction, essays, poetry, and illustrations from writers in the B.C. interior, compiled to raise funds for Doctors Without Borders. Edited by Jodie Renner
Keene Hill
It is a summer of omens for Claire, living with her trucker husband in the hot and arid East Kootenay hills. Amidst a growing sense of unease, she watches her husband's mood deterioriate -- but only when their relationship is past the point of no return does she realize she should have heeded the warnings and fled while she had a chance. What the omens haven't told her is how it would end...
The Dame Was Trouble (Coffin Hop Press - August 2018) busts the helpless-female stereotype with a collection of Canadian noir in which women call the shots and make their own decisions -- for better or for worse.
Rozotica
It's the 1970s, and Heather's safe and predictable life as a waitress goes south when she follows Milestone into his latest money-making scheme -- pitching sexy androids to prospective shareholders. All she has to do is wear the wig, the short-shorts, along with a bit of fake circuitry, and strut about as Milestone's prototype. Grifting half-naked in a hotel room full of strangers -- what could possibly go wrong?
Vancouver Noir (Akashic Press, November 2019) The latest in Akashic's superb noir series, collated and edited by Sam Wiebe and featuring many of Vancouver's best writers from the dark side.
The Threshold
Blaine, a hotshot photographer, is gathering images for his soon-to-be-published collection of urban decay. What his telephoto zooms in on as he explores the Vancouver docks is a man bleeding to death in the waterfront weeds. Tragic -- but the light is slanting in just so, illuminating a life crossing over. What a great photo op, and what fabulous potential captions. Blaine has to make a choice. What he doesn't realize is how that decision will change his world forever.
COLD CANADIAN CRIME
2022 - An anthology containing 21 tales of markedly Canadian murder and mayhem: gritty, crazy, and all of them terrifically cold-hearted.
Hot
Seth the bot manservant -- who he is and what he ends up doing, is it a warning to Peyton and her pals that Artificial Intelligence needs a whole lot of technical tweaking? Or have we already given this new lifeform far too much leash? The consequences are -- well -- chilling.
CRIME WAVE - WOMEN OF A CERTAIN AGE:
2022 - This latest Sister in Crime - Canada West anthology features 16 funny, sad, provocative, and satisfying stories from a diverse and talented pool of crime fiction authors.
Grace
Motive for murder is not always easily pegged. What are young Grace's motives when she sets out to destroy an elderly neighbour? And what does she accomplish ... nothing but a boomerang strike to the heart.