Lea Tassie: 26 books

Assassination and marriage dominate conversation around the bridge table on a sultry summer afternoon.

A look at what might happen if the roles were reversed and cats were in charge of judging humans.

When Holly Sutton learns that squatters have taken over the old house scheduled to open as a heritage museum for Adriana Island, she promises to get rid of them. But Jason and his partner, Jody, surprise her. His colored pencil art work is brilliant and Jody is blind. Holly and husband Ben invite...

Annie realizes that sometimes words can be far more dangerous than falling into an ice-cold, racing river.

Sandy, a retiree who is happily busy with projects, walks along a hilly waterfront every morning. When he can't avoid it, he puts up with the complaints of Wendell, another retiree who walks his wife to work along the same path. One morning, Sandy learns that Wendell was found dead on the rocks at...

This book explores the source and use of 355 common phrases and words in our wicked, wonderful, wacky English language. While it's raining cats and dogs, we'll horse around with pie in the sky and, when we're at the zoo, a bird will briefly land in our hand before it bites the dust. However,...

After Rob, her nine-year-old nephew, witnesses a murder, Penny Davis leaves her hometown of Vancouver and seeks asylum in Hawaii. They’ll be safe there. Or so she thinks. Her mistrust of the police, the aftermath of a bank robbery which cost her father his health and reputation, prevents her seeking...

Zanni Howard, from her beginnings in a small prairie town to a career that takes her around the world, is an expert photographer, seeking to reveal both truth and beauty in her art. But, in her personal life, she blindly makes assumptions about who she is and what will bring her contentment. Zanni’s...

The seventeen stories and ten poems in this book contain a touch of mystery, a touch of fantasy, a touch of science fiction and more than a touch of humor. At the same time, some of these timeless stories touch, in timely fashion, on how people make time, keep time, and put in time. In no time...

Twenty years after the Devastation described in Green Blood Rising, the Metchosin clan votes 15 to 14 to allow an exchange student, Erik, to devote all his time trying to harness electricity produced by the trees to recreate “civilization.” Spider, daughter of a clan leader, falls in love with...

A quirky harvest feast of short stories and poems, this West Coast cornucopia offers a well-brewed and delectable banquet of obsessions, dangerous secrets and unique snapshots of the human condition.

A beautiful and idealistic young princess kisses a forlorn frog and discovers that true shapes are not always what they appear to be.

Angus MacDonald loves his garden, but not the cats that dig holes in it. In the process of devising deterrents for cats, his wife tells him the facts about and history of the feline race. Who will win this territorial battle -- Angus or a cat that might indeed be a descendant of the Great Cat Ra?

To a tourist, the sleepy village of Deception Bay appears to be an idyllic, peaceful retreat, anything but deceptive. But Larry, the bartender in the old, quaint, ivy-covered inn, and Brenda, his realtor buddy, know better. They discover the secrets lurking below the surface, such as who attends the...