Canadian Adventure

The Canadian Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective Sherlock Holmes and his trusted colleague Dr. John Watson as they travel across late 19th century Canada. In their epic journey they encounter incredible characters and memorable mysteries. From the death-by-canon murder at Halifax's Citadel to the eerie case of the McCormick Fortune in Montreal to the strange case of the Overlander in Victoria, Holmes and Watson must use all their skill and abilities to solve a series of bizarre cases.

The Autobiographical Story of the Opening of the Far North There was a time not so very long ago when the Hudson’s Bay Company ruled the north. A time of silky furs, Indian skirmishes, canoes, “jawbone”, dog sleds, traps, and sourdoughs. Adventure came easy in this silent land of the far north. Henry John Moberly surely had plenty of it. Nearly 50 years he spent among the native and white trappers as a fur trader, trapper, hunter, and explorer. Moberly opened many of HBC’s most remote Trading Posts. The struggles of the north, the unbearable cold, the humor of the frontiersmen, the ...

This true-life wilderness survival epic recounts 17-year-old Alex Messenger's near-lethal encounter with a grizzly bear during a canoe trip in the Canadian tundra. The story follows Alex and his five companions as they paddle north through harrowing rapids and stunning terrain. Twenty-nine days into the trip, while out hiking alone, Alex is attacked by a barren-ground grizzly. Left for dead, he wakes to find that his summer adventure has become a struggle to stay alive.

Life on the potato farm in Maine offered little of the adventure the young Amos Mudd longed for. Reading the news of gold in California became an escape for him and finally his objective. The hardships of making the long trek and abandoning his father could only hold him back for so long.

Tired of eighty-hour work weeks, attorney Jimmy Corbett grabs an opportunity to leave a Toronto law firm and head to the small city of Belleville, Ontario to open his own law practice and find a life actually worth living. Jimmy is handed a complex legal mystery with his very first client and will soon discover that danger can arise anywhere when you stick your stubborn snout in the wrong toilet. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a Canadian author who has penned more than 100 novels since his retirement in 2009. Please check out his Author Page on Amazon for details about each book.

Hiding from a controlling and dangerous partner, Grace Rhodes goes off the grid when she joins an artists’ retreat to escape to a remote area of Canada’s Algonquin Provincial Park. There, she bumps into Cam, who brings back old memories—happy memories. If only she had done things differently in the past. In the stunning beauty of the north with her newfound creative friends, Grace finds respite through poetry and reflection but is distracted when she stumbles upon two men searching for a missing friend. The pursuit is on to locate the lost friend in the vast wilderness of the park, ...

THE PLACE AT THE END OF ALL ROADS The place at the end of all roads was called Glenora, beside the Stikine River. The dirt road simply ended on the rocky shore of the river. Past that point for hundreds of miles to the south, west and north, there were no roads and no people until the river finally reached Alaska, 150 miles away. It was there and beyond where we lived and raised our family for many years. In late winter my wife Ann and I, with our four month old baby, Ariana, drove into the village of Telegraph Creek, BC, the most remote community in all of British Columbia, Canada, near ...

Forced out of his New York law firm by his partners, 66 year old Carl Saunders drives to Pittsburg, Kansas where he buys a modest home and begins operating his own legal firm out of his dining-room. Being a small town attorney had long been Carl's unfulfilled fantasy. Carl will soon discover that mortal danger can lurk under the surface even in small town America. WATCH YOUR BACK, CARL. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a retired Canadian lawyer who has penned more than 120 novels. Please check out his Author Page on Amazon for details about each book.

The mist is rising so lock your doors and stay inside, for the monsters have returned. On a dark and ominous night, at the edge of the Abyss, Agathe rescues a baby from a monster that should have been extinct. Gravely injured in the process, the elderly Agathe is rewarded by having her youth restored. But that's only the start of the strangeness.

Attorney Kenneth King can't wait to get away on vacation and leave the courtroom behind. He only has one last errand to do for his boss: drop off a flash drive to fellow attorney Emma James. But as soon as the drive is in his hands, his boss is murdered and Kenneth becomes the next target. With nowhere left to turn, he reaches out to Emma for help, but that only puts them both in danger.

Barclay Of The Mounted is the memoir of a young man who, looking for adventure and glory, joins the newly formed North-West Mounted Police. Henry Barclay, a native of Toronto travels west to “to keep the peace and maintain the right of all.” Barclay is an educated young man who quotes everything from Byron to The Bible, and from Shakespeare to Shelley. He sees the western frontier lacking only in culture and he is never without his copy of The Best Loved Poems of Our Time. The Western Territories of Canada are vast and in his varied duties, Barclay encounters whiskey traders, native ...

In this 3rd novel of the HAUNTED FUNERAL HOME SERIES, young lawyer Jeremy Duff and his ghostly girlfriend Amelia are sent to extreme southern Louisiana to free the trapped spirit of a young girl named Blanche DesRoches who took her own life after her sister died in a car accident. As ghost detectives, Jeremy and Amelia need to unlock the trauma which has prevented Blanche's spirit from ascending to the next sphere of existence. Jeremy and Amelia are for the first time thrown into a totally unexpected battle with powerful evil spirits. This novel describes their latest adventure. ABOUT THE ...

Undercover operative Jason Wright and his partner Kamal were left for dead in Iran---casualties of a war on terror. But Jason survived and he’s out for revenge. He’s selling his country’s secrets to the highest bidder and he doesn’t care who gets it---as long as he gets paid and Kamal’s death is avenged. Andrew Blythe, a Canadian CSIS agent, races against time to stop the information exchange, knowing that a dangerous terrorist organization will use it to gain control of the Baku oil leases in the Caspian Sea. With those leases, they will be able to finance a weapon of mass ...

A historical adventure book set in the Canadian wilderness during the early 20th century. "Silver Frost"Unfolding in the remote expanse of the Canadian wilderness during the early 1900s, "Silver Frost" is a tale imbued with adventure, the primal beauty of untamed landscapes, and the raw struggle for survival. At the heart of this story lie themes of loyalty, bravery, and the enduring connection to one's heritage.As the book opens, a young Native American named Wabi and his companion Roderick Drew find themselves on a perilous journey, trying to evade a relentless wolf pack during a ...

Dylan Campbell, a CSIS officer, has been undercover hundreds of times before and is ready to get out of the game. But before he can tell his bosses at the Canadian spy agency, he discovers a terrorist plot that could take him―and millions of others―out permanently. Getting the information up the chain of command proves complicated, though, when Dylan's cover is blown and he's captured and thrown in an African prison. Will he be the first test subject for the new and deadly virus about to be unleashed on the world? CIA officer Elizabeth Spencer is undercover for one reason―to find ...

Ready for some stories from the vast wilderness of Canada? It's home to the sasquatch: a creature that's revered and feared by the natives there since before time was recorded. Settle back with a cup of hot chocolate, lock the doors, and be ready to call your best friend in case you start seeing big hairy faces in the window (but be aware that your friend may also be listening to these stories, so have a backup plan).

Gripping and often poetic, Alone Against the North is a classic adventure story of single-minded obsession, physical hardship, and the restless sense of wonder that every explorer has in common. What Shoalts discovered as he paddled downriver was a series of unmapped waterfalls that could easily have killed him. Just as astonishing was the media reaction when he got back to civilization. He was feted by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and congratulated by the Governor General. People were enthralled by Shoalts’s proof that the world is bigger than we think.

Kenshiro and Elliott narrowly escape the scene of the car accident that left Kenshiro crippled and bleeding. In a small house somewhere in Pennsylvania, Kenshiro begins to succumb to his injuries, and Elliott finds its up to him to save his friend. After a failed attempt to find medicine for Kenshiro, the pair are forced to retreat back to the road in search of a safe spot for Kenshiro to recover. They don’t get far. When Elle and Martin return from a refueling run with two unexpected strangers they rescued off the interstate, the quiet community of The Prescott is thrown into chaos by ...

This is the 3rd novel in the 6-book SLIMY LAWYER SERIES about sleazy attorney Slymon Robichaud who earned his nickname "Slimy" through many years of ripping off his clients and anyone else who stumbled into his path. When a missed flight connection allows Slimy to meet a rich elderly woman in a Denver hotel restaurant, he decides to help himself to a bit of her wealth. Will it be easy pickings? Not everything is always precisely as advertised. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a quirky retired lawyer from Canada who loves to write about the legal profession that everyone loathes. ...

This epic tale sweeps across continents and time, hovers over a key era in American history, and deftly realizes the humanity of a whole cast of characters. Told through flashbacks and alternating points of view, The Last Crossing is about redemption, about seeking and finding, about human feelings and strengths, about personal honor, and about that moment in life when we must decide to cross over and surrender to love.