Winnipeg 150: Fiction

Fiction titles that reference extreme weather, street names, Slurpees, and more great things about Winnipeg.

Updated March 26, 2024
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1

The dead of midnight
Hunter, Catherine 1957-
Paper Book
Members of the Mystery au Lait Café book club can't get enough of the Midnight Mystery Series-until the books' terrifying crimes begin to happen for real in the quiet town where the club meets. Someone is imitating the Midnight Mystery murders and killing off the book club, one member at a time...

2

Little fish
Plett, Casey
Paper Book
WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction; $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Award In this extraordinary debut novel by the author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning story collection A Safe Girl to Love, Wendy Reimer is a thirty-year-old trans woman...

Also available in eBook and eAudiobook formats and as a Book Club Kit.

3

The republic of love
Shields, Carol

Also available in DAISY, eBook and Large Print formats.

4

Summer of my amazing luck
Toews, Miriam 1964-
Paper Book
Lucy Von Alstyne sends fictitious letters to her friend Alicia, pretending to be the father of Alicia's twins, and the two welfare mothers and their five children set off on a journey to find him, facing along the way the complications of living in poverty and raising fatherless children.

Also available in Audiobook, DAISY and eBook formats.

5

An ordinary decent criminal
Van Rooy, Michael 1968-
Paper Book
Not since Jack Reacher has there been such a quickthinking, hard-edged antihero who readers will root for against all odds All recovering drug addict and reformed thief Montgomery Haaviko wants to do is settle down with his wife and baby in their new home and work on building a straight life, one...

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