Janet Kellough: 3 books

Still humiliated after his disastrous posting in Cobourg, preacher and sometime detective Thaddeus Lewis is asked to investigate a case of arson and murder that had its beginnings as a simple suit for seduction - a so-called "heart balm tort". The last person he expects to find in London, Canada West...

A ramshackle dance hall and a balmy spring night lie at the heart of a secret that puzzles Cara Collins when she returns to her hometown to bury her mother. Four women - two girlfriends, one wife and a daughter - are caught up in the tangled web that spins around bootlegger businessman Len Collins....

Liddie Rose Marsh grows up in a place where it’s all right to have more-or-less cousins and miscellaneous relatives and old folks and young folks and car engines and chickens all sharing the same space: where kids are taken along to dances at the Town Hall and where her pear-shaped aunt is carrying...