The Goldfish Bowl

(In the West End, a sniper sets up for his next target. Ar...)

In the West End, a sniper sets up for his next target. Armed with his Winchester 460 Magnum rifle and Redfield variable-power scope, he prepares for his next victim. Alice Palm, a woman who enjoys to party every Friday falls prey to the sniper. Jack Willows and his new partner, Claire Parker, are assigned the task of bringing the sniper in. The killings have clearly been planned, the targets carefully chosen. Willows and Parker strive to overcome their initial awkwardness in their mission to bring this killer down.

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1987

Death On a No 8 Hook

(All Jack Willows wants is a holiday — from work, from fam...)

All Jack Willows wants is a holiday — from work, from family, from life. But when you’re a cop, you’re never off the clock, and when he stumbles across the body of a young girl up in the mountains, he finds himself headed back to reality and the city of Vancouver more quickly than he’d hoped. Events become more tangled when Jack learns that in his absence his partner, Claire Parker, discovered the brutally murdered and mutilated body of a boy — a case that looks to be somehow connected to his own.

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1988

Silent Knives

(Detectives Jack Willows and Claire Parker pursue a remors...)

Detectives Jack Willows and Claire Parker pursue a remorseless hitman whose trademark is his sickeningly creative and deadly use of knives.

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1988

Hot Shots

(A valuable heroin consignment is lost, dumped into Englis...)

A valuable heroin consignment is lost, dumped into English Bay by panicking couriers. Psychopathic millionaire Gary Silk is furious and will kill to reclaim it. As an example, one of the men responsible must be ‘executed’. Silk is on a mission to exact revenge and recklessly begins to make more enemies than ever with his increasingly cruel and bizarre behaviour... Al Paterson, a businessman facing bankruptcy, stumbles across the heroin by accident. Can he recoup his fortunes with some illicit dealing or is he out of his depth?

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1989

Sandstorm

(Ruthless CIA agent Jack Downey is on a mission: assassina...)

Ruthless CIA agent Jack Downey is on a mission: assassinate Libyan dictator Col. Qaddafi. But this is a mission that only Downey knows about. For Downey has told CIA Chief-of-station, Richard Foster, that his team of renegades will help protect a defecting Libyan colonel. Suspicious of the rogue agent’s true motives, however, Foster secretly puts Downey under surveillance. Meanwhile, American businessman Charlie McPhee has spent the last few years in Egypt, following an acrimonious divorce. Earning a meagre existence as a nightclub ventriloquist, his past as a lock expert brings him to the attention of the Libyan secret police. When he is kidnapped and forced to open a safe belonging to revolutionaries, Charlie manages to escape – but kills the Libyans in the process.

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1990

Serious Crimes

(Jack Willows and Claire Parker are investigating the deat...)

Jack Willows and Claire Parker are investigating the death of Kenny Lee, a local owner of a Chinese newspaper. He was discovered encased in ice, posed in a Lotus position in Sun Yat-Sen Gardens. Such a prominent figure of the community, posed in such a manner, sparks outrage within the community. Can Willows and Parker solve the mystery before the leads run dry?

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1990

Accidental Deaths

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1991

Fall Down Easy

(Jack Willows and Claire Parker are on the trail of a ruth...)

Jack Willows and Claire Parker are on the trail of a ruthless killer. A mysterious figure who held up a whole series of banks, shot a man for his briefcase, and then disappeared. Greg is the bank robber, the womaniser, the man with the plan. But when he becomes a killer, his plans begin to unravel. The briefcase he stole is full of pages and pages of numbers and he’s got no way of finding out what they mean. Still, Greg is skilled in special effects and with a new face created for every heist, there’s no way anyone can find him before he finds answers. But Greg wasn’t always so good at his job. Maybe the key to his true identity is lurking somewhere in his past?

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1992

Killers

(Jack Willows and Claire Parker are investigating the deat...)

Jack Willows and Claire Parker are investigating the death of Dr Gerard Roth. An employee of the Vancouver Public Aquarium, he was found in the tank with two killer whales. Highly respected in his field of work, the doctor had a love of swimming in the tanks with the various exhibits. And not always alone. Parker and Willows must work quickly to establish whether there was foul play involved, or simply a night of indulgence gone awry.

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1993

Heartbreaker

(Jack Willows and Claire Parker are investigating the myst...)

Jack Willows and Claire Parker are investigating the mysterious death of Zagros Galee, a local estate agent. Discovering that he was widely disliked, they are swamped by a huge number of potential suspects. His wife? Has his love of work and other women pushed her to murder? His colleagues? His cash versus his success doesn’t add up. Have they protected their own commission by ridding themselves of this conman once and for all? Or is there an aspect of his life hidden from the world that explains his recent windfall?

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1995

Memory Lane

(Jack Willows and Claire Parker are on the case again… Thi...)

Jack Willows and Claire Parker are on the case again… This time a local police officer has been murdered. Was his unusual sexual appetite the cause of his demise? Or is this case deeper than it first appears? Is it a jilted lover? A con with a grudge? Or is there a corrupt cop within their midst? Meanwhile, Ross Larson has just been released from jail. Inside he developed a friendship with fellow inmate Garret, who was serving 25 years for robbery and murder. Two hundred thousand dollars was never recovered from his latest heist. Did Ross receive the necessary clues from Garret, before his untimely death from cancer, to locate the money? Or is it lost forever? Struggling to adapt to his release, Ross connects with Shannon, Garret’s girlfriend, in an effort to maintain some familiarity with his life. But is Shannon genuinely interested in Ross, or is it just a ploy to retrieve the missing cash? Ross must decide whether the search for the money is worth the risk of returning to jail, or to write it off forever. Follow Ross as he battles his inner turmoil of greed, conscience and paranoia in what is another explosive episode in the Willows and Parker crime series.

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1996

Karaoke Rap

(Ozzie believes he’s planned the perfect crime… Wealthy st...)

Ozzie believes he’s planned the perfect crime… Wealthy stock promoter Harold Wismer is having an affair. Ozzie and his buddy will kidnap Harold as he leaves the woman’s apartment, and then demand a five-million-dollar ransom from Harold’s loving wife. Harold is famous locally for his loud mouth, endless cigars, and banana-yellow suits – but everyone knows he can easily afford five million. The original Trampoline Man, he’s suffered numerous multimillion-dollar losses playing the market, and always bounced back. Unfortunately, Ozzie is unaware that ancient-but-still-sharp-toothed mobster Jake Cappalletti also has a lively pecuniary interest in Harold. Ozzie’s young and quick. But Jake is old, and methodical. Vancouver police detectives Jack Willows and Claire Parker are assigned the task of investigating Harold’s sudden and violent disappearance. When Willow’s son is critically wounded in a convenience-store holdup, the future of the case lies in jeopardy. But Willows doesn’t want to abandon that case and as time goes on, he becomes more and more convinced that the two crimes are related. The hunt is on in Karaoke Rap.

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1997