Melissa Yuan Innes: 64 books

Julia Sharpe predicted she’d find romance on November 22nd. Darwin Jones saunters into town, right on schedule. That thud you’re hearing?  Julia’s twelve-year-old heart dropping out of her body and into the nearest Ottawa snowbank. In the olden days, like last year,...

Luke Gallagher rules the world as the luckiest guy on the planet. Well, not literally. But he gets the grades, the girls, and the goals ever since he rubbed the belly of the Laughing Buddha statue in Chinatown at age 13. Maybe it’s just a coincidence, or maybe Buddha’s got his back....

Selected as one of the great must-read mysteries of the summer by Canada's national book show, CBC Radio's The Next Chapter A dead man in the snow shatters Dr. Hope Sze’s peaceful month of research at an Ottawa stem cell lab. Hope discovers that one man’s body leads to a series of...

A mother who burns for justice. The doctor who can’t say no. And the killer who lies in wait. Dr. Hope Sze solved her first murder case a week ago—and almost got strangled in the process. Now she just wants to pass her psychiatry rotation. No more Sherlock Holmes-ing for Hope. Ever. Until...

Who killed Canada's coolest doctor? Dr. Hope Sze rolls into Montreal with three simple goals: 1) survive her family medicine residency, 2) try pain au chocolat, 3) go on a date sometime in the next two years. Turns out there's no shortage of good-looking guys in the gourmet capital of...

When Octavia Ling spots an ad for The Italian School for Assassins, she figures that it sounds like a crazy workout, better than pole dancing, and exactly the kind of nuttiness she craves for a birthday that ends in a zero. Except, when “V" lands in Florence, the other assassin students seem…awfully...

"Why don't you write about your mother? That's what I like when I read Amy Tan," suggested a friend. That was why I read Amy Tan too. Still, I resisted the suggestions until I wrote the Hope Sze medical thrillers and a version of my family snuck onto the pages. And now, wouldn't you know...

All Octavia “V” Ling wants for the holidays? Inner peace and a piece of the sizzling spy named Dario. Since gingerbread men will dance the cha cha before Dario swears his undying devotion, V jets off to Goa, India, ready to rock the handstands with a yogini named Raven. Only Raven...

Fresh out of jail and off drugs, Fred Redish embarks on a new life.  First up:  getting to know his two young sons, who are under the custody of his mother-in-law.  Problem is, she poisons them against Mohawks in general and Fred in particular.  How can he get his boys back before...

At West Vincent High School, the power couple ain’t the prom king and queen. The head janitor, Gordon Pinchuk, rules the roost, harassing everyone from the principal down to the students. Gordon saves some special grief for Birdie, the one female janitor. Good thing Birdie’s...

Three best friends. One belly dancing class. Every Monday, on penalty of death or cheesecake. Kate Zhao, the corporate lawyer, faces down her best friend and first lover who dumped her when they were both 17. Now that he's all grown up, he wants to make it up to her. Hailey St. Laurent...

When Oona's husband asks for an open marriage, she kicks him to the curb and makes a list. A list of the guys not taken. The first guy she really loved. The guy who morphed into Dr. McDreamy. And the smokin' yoga teacher with abs of titanium. The List of all the guys she coulda-woulda-shoulda....

Ivy Appleford is not a diva.  Most librarians aren't. But for once in her life, she's breaking all the rules. Take Tariq Zahid.  In fact, that's the main problem:  she wants to take him.  He's tall, dark, and handsome, but off-limits in so many ways.  First of all, she just...