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Lou Allin
Canadian Crime Fiction Writer: Northern Ontario to Vancouver Island

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PUBLISHED: Oct.01.2007

Memories are Murder

Belle Palmer's high-school boyfriend comes to Northern Ontario to study elk and is found drowned in a remote lake. Someone is killing to protect a poisonous secret.

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PUBLISHED: May.01.2006

Murder, Eh?

Northern Ontario realtor Belle Palmer discovers a lady drowned in her bathtub. Then the woman's young son disappears into the bush as freezing temperatures close in.

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PUBLISHED: Oct.01.2003

Bush Poodles are Murder

Realtor Belle Palmer turns babysitter for a spoiled mini-poodle when her best friend is accused of murdering a crooked investment counsellor. A blizzard in the bush sends this unlikely pair scrambling for their lives in the gun sights of a desperature killer.

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PUBLISHED: May.01.2002

Blackflies are Murder

The savage murder of an elderly neighbour sends realtor Belle Palmer on the tracks of a scandal dating back thirty years.

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PUBLISHED: Oct.01.2000

Northern Winters are Murder

Sudbury realtor Belle Palmer suspects foul play when a friend of hers drowns in a snowmobile accident.

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PUBLISHED: Apr.25.2011

A Little Learning is a Murderous Thing

The semester gets off to a rough start at Copper University for Victorian lit professor Maddie Temple when a girl falls to her death from the library.

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PUBLISHED: Apr.25.2011

Man Corn Murders

A Cleveland reporter and her aunt travel in their RV to the Utah desert, where they discover a body in a cave.

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PUBLISHED: Oct.11.2010

She Felt No Pain

Summer on Vancouver Island gets off to a rough start when the body of a homeless man is found in the bush. RCMP Corporal Holly Martin finds drug paraphernalia at the scene but other details lead her to believe that the man may have been murdered. Drought heats up the vacation paradise, and one match could send Canada's Caribbean into flames.

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PUBLISHED: Sep.30.2008

And on the Surface Die

RCMP Corporal Holly Martin has taken her first post, a small detachment in Fossil Bay on Vancouver Island. On her first day, a scuba diver finds the body of a girl in the surf. Accident or murder?

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PUBLISHED: Oct.01.2010

That Dog Won't Hunt

A drifter meets a widow in the desert and returns to her lodge to help her reopen it. But when payday comes, everything goes sideways.

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Jun.13.2013 - 9:20 am

The Miller's Daughter's Story Deciphered: Memory of a Bittersweet Romance

The story of the miller’s daughter and her photo album in my earlier blog (“Aunt...

Mar.22.2013 - 9:07 am

One of Canada's Blockbuster Bloggers Confesses Her Secrets

Author Leanne Dyck is lucky (and brave) enough to live on sunny Mayne Island off the coast of British Columbia. She is a women’s fiction author whose writing has appeared in...

Mar.09.2013 - 10:09 am

Aunt Belle's One-Hundred-Four-Year-Old Secret

In 1909 in a miller’s family in Arva, Ontario, near London, a young woman fell ill. What better place for...

Feb.22.2013 - 10:57 am

Belle or Holly?: The Old Order Changeth, Yielding Place to New

“Abandoning” a series is a harsh word. It sounds like an author tucked the books into a heated drop at a...

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Apr.15.2012 - 7:52 pm

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Sep.16.2011 - 9:16 am

In response to: Blog Topic of the Week: Vampires!

Literary Vampire

My father was a film booker and my mother, so no wonder I'm a child of the movies and their books. From...

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Poem: Poems

Short Story: I'm A Bride

Short Story: No Crime

About Lou

A dual citizen of the US and Canada, Lou Allin is the author of the Belle Palmer series, starting with Northern Winters are Murder and ending with Memories are Murder. The novels take place in Sudbury, Ontario, the Nickel Capital of the World. She also wrote...

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