Books

The Otherworld series are paranormal suspense stories set in Toronto. In Bitten, the first in the series, Elena is the only female werewolf in the world. In Broken, Elena tries to steal a famous letter from a Toronto collector, but instead stumbles upon a confusion of zombies and an infamous serial killer. Otherworld series, in order: Bitten, Stolen, Dime Store Magic, Industrial Magic, Haunted, Broken, No Humans Involved, Personal Demon, Living with the Dead, Frostbitten.

These stories follow four medical students as they face high stakes and moral challenges in busy emergency rooms and research labs.

Most of these stories explore experiences of ethnically Indian Trinidadian men who have immigrated to Toronto and its suburbs.

Paul Stevens is a bookseller in a used books shop in 1970s Toronto. He begins to frequent the seedy pool halls and motels of ‘Toronto the not-so-good‘ when he falls for the drug-addicted Judith.

Set in Depression-era Toronto, this novel examines the effects of economic hardship on ordinary working people.

Set at the Royal Ontario Museum, a dying paleontologist works alongside an alien who has come to Earth to compare the mass extinctions that have happened here and on his own planet.

A 1930s Toronto Star reporter, Eli Morenz, uncovers a Jewish pickpocket gang operating out of Kensington Market and begins an affair with pickpocket Mona Kantor.

A story of contemporary Toronto and frontier Toronto, Consolation recounts a modern-day search for rare photographic plates that captured the first aerial view of Toronto in 1857. Selected as the Toronto Reads One Book 2008.

Alternating between Toronto's Parkdale and Rosedale neighbourhoods, this second Dana Leoni mystery sees Dana and her boarding house friends on the trail of a ruthless killer. See also: Last Stop Sunnyside.

Cuban-born José Latour's first novel since immigrating to Canada from Spain brings his recurring protagonist, Elliot Steil, to Toronto. Steil becomes involved in a kidnapping carried out by the Islamic Army of Canada.

Heaven Books in North Toronto, a romance publisher, is where George Small finds himself when he dies. Working there as a proofreader, the deceased George attempts to correct the errors of his life.

Set in 1920s Toronto, this novel portrays the lives of immigrant labourers who contribute to the building of the city.

Book 7 of the Detective William Murdoch series, set in 1890s Toronto. See also, in order: Except the Dying, Under the Dragon's Tail, Poor Tom is Cold, Let Loose the Dogs, Night's Child, Vices of My Blood.

Patrick Rush joins a writing circle to further his writing ambitions. There he becomes fascinated by a work- in-progress by a young woman about a serial killer, which bears similarities to a real-life killer terrorizing Toronto.

In Engel's 12th Benny Cooperman book, his P.I. hero awakens in a Toronto hospital struggling with memory loss. (Before writing this book, Engel suffered a stroke that left him able to write, but unable to read.)

Idora Morrison is a Barbados native who has lived in Toronto for twenty-five years. Devastated by her teenage son's involvement in gang crime, she reflects on her lost Caribbean past and yearns, simply for “more”. Selected as the Toronto Reads One Book 2010. See also Austin Clarke's 'Toronto Trilogy' about West Indian immigrants in Toronto: The Meeting Point, Storm of Fortune, The Bigger Light.

The Bermans are Russian Jewish immigrants to the Bathurst and Finch area of Toronto. The stories chronicle the Berman's struggles to adapt to their new city.

Following what appears to be a simple murder investigation involving a leading Toronto radio show host, the suspect's defense attorney tries to understand why the radio host's confession rings false.

This story collection chronicles Toronto's punk and poetry scene of the 1980s. Set in places such as Sneaky Dee's and The Rivoli, the stories evoke the troubled lives of artists and the art they create.

Middle-aged, alcoholic and wondering what went wrong, writer Phil delves into a confused memory of a traumatic childhood confrontation that took place in a Don Mills ravine.

The final book in the Ellis Portal series. See also, in order: Free Reign, The Feast of Stephen, The Ferryman Will Be There, Leave Me By Dying

Emily Harada, an architect and single mother of a teenage son, restores houses in Toronto and tries to find happiness.

Root for Toronto slacker Scott Pilgrim's ongoing quest to defeat the seven evil ex-boyfriends of his love, Ramona Flowers. See also: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life, Vol.1, Scott Pilgrim Versus the World, Vol.2, Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness, Vol. 3, Scott Pilgrim Gets it Together, Vol. 5

This collection of noir and crime stories about Toronto features Gail Bowen, Peter Robinson, Pasha Malla, George Elliot Clarke, and more.

The Torontonians realistically portrays the lives of the city's upper-middle class in the 1950s from the point of view of Karen Whitney, who has lived her whole life in Toronto.

This novel tells the stories of four second-generation Canadian friends all living in Toronto and dealing with issues of race and identity. Though they try to define themselves as separate from their families, they are inevitably drawn into past secrets and dramas.

Together, Avery and Jean witness the construction of two projects which uproot people's lives and obliterate land: the St. Lawrence Seaway and the Aswan Dam. When their own relationship falters, they move, separately, to Toronto to face their loss. See also: Fugitive Pieces.