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Laurali R. Wright / L.R. Wright
L.R. Wright was born Laurali Rose Appleby on 5 June 1939 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Known as Bunny, Wright grew up in Saskatoon and in Abbotsford, British Columbia. She worked as a reporter in Calgary before becoming a full-time writer in 1977.
After publishing her fourth book, Wright returned to school, receiving an M.A. in Liberal Studies from Simon Fraser University. She taught writing at the University of British Columbia and wrote adaptations for several of her books for radio, film, and television.
L.R. Wright died of breast cancer on 25 February 2001.
Books in Order: 14 titles
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Basement Level 5: Never Scared
Alexa Martinez was raised to believe that murder, deceit, and lies were a part of life. A trained killer, she follows in her father's footsteps, specializing in political assassinations for Martinez Security--contracted through the CIA. She thrives o...
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Acts of Murder
A serial killer stalks the Sunshine Coast in this "tightly plotted . . . richly atmospheric" (Booklist) installment of the Edgar Award -- winning series -- the inspiration for Fox TV and Hulu's Murder in a Small Town."Wright is fully [Ruth Rendell's]...
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Strangers Among Us
A teenager is arrested for his parents' murder in a Canadian seaside village in this "riveting psychological puzzle" (Booklist) -- from the series that launched Fox TV and Hulu's Murder in a Small Town."[Wright] can keep up with the best crime writer...
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Mother Love
An award-winning mystery in the series that launched Fox TV and Hulu's Murder in a Small Town, by "a master of the psychological thriller" (Booklist)."Wright is fully [Ruth Rendell's] equal in psychological studies of compulsion." -- Kirkus ReviewsW...
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A Touch of Panic
Karl Alberg investigates the mysteries of love -- and some peculiar goings-on -- in his supposedly sleepy town. Gordon Murphy is charming, intelligent, the recent winner of the lottery -- and searching for the perfect woman. Four times he thought he...
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Prized Possessions
DESIRE. COMPULSION. OBSESSION. WILL STAFF SERGEANT KARL ALBERG'S KEEN DETECTIVE SKILLS SUFFICE? Prized Possessions is a psychological thriller of electric tension between the sexes. Meet Emma O'Brea, "the best wife there ever was," whose husband has...
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Fall From Grace
MOUNTIE KARL ALBERG WAS EXPECTING A ROOM WITH A VIEW--INSTEAD, HE GOT A CORPSE WITH A TALE Staff Sergeant Karl Alberg takes his on-again/off-again Significant Other, town librarian Cassandra Mitchell, on a boat trip to a sun-drenched cove on the P...
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A Chill Rain in January
A Canadian cop is up against a local femme fatale in this award-winning mystery from the series that inspired Fox TV and Hulu's Murder in a Small Town."Truly splendid." -- Jonathan KellermanWinner of the Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence f...
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Sleep While I Sing
An atmospheric crime thriller set on Canada's Sunshine Coast in the series that's the basis for Fox TV and Hulu's Murder in a Small Town, by "a master of the psychological thriller" (Booklist) and an "even funnier writer than [Ruth] Rendell" (Vancouv...
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The Suspect
First in the acclaimed series that launched Fox TV and Hulu's Murder in a Small Town: "Every bit as good as the novels of P. D. James and Ruth Rendell." -- PeopleThis Edgar Award winner is "one of the best books of the year . . . a novel with a spec...
Award-Winning Books by Laurali R. Wright / L.R. Wright
1986 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Novel