Bruce Barber: 4 books

Blues in the Shadows collects for the first time the published short fiction of Canadian author Bruce Barber. These finely-crafted tales defy categorization into genre, but whether you are a fan of whimsy, fantasy, SF, magic realism, horror, or humour, you will find something here to delight and surprise...

Biographer Jean-Claude Keyes has twice before stumbled unwillingly into murder, once among the professionals of the Shakespearean Festival in Stratford, Ontario, Canada, and on another occasion while snowbound in a motel on the outskirts of the same town. In Downstage Dead, Keyes becomes involved...

It is supposed to be a fine February weekend: cold and crisp, with clear sunny skies. The forecasts do not mention murder… Jean-Claude Keyes, following his furniture to his new house in Stratford, Ontario, Canada, is driving west with his Toronto editor when a savage blizzard beings. Seeking shelter...

Actor-turned-writer Jean-Claude Keyes boards a train bound for Stratford, Ontario, Canada and the world-famous Stratford Shakespeare Festival. His intent is to finish writing his insider's biography of leading actor Seamus O'Reilly, see old friends, and perhaps re-kindle his affair with actress Alessandra...