Alex Bernier Books In Order
- Reliable Sources (1999)
- Distemper (2000)
- The Fourth Wall (2001)
- Bad Seed (2002)
- Ecstasy (2003)
Novels
- See Isabelle Run (2005)
- The Mortician’s Daughter (2006)
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Reliable Sources
An Alex Bernier MysteryAlex Bernier lives in the sleepy university town of Gabriel in upstate New York, and writes for the Gabriel Monitor. When her boyfriend, Adam, is found dead at the bottom of a local gorge, Alex is convinced that his death could not have been suicide, and so she beings an investigation of her own, following clues that lead her on a dangerous trail, ultimately to the murderer himself.
Distemper
An Alex Bernier mystery ? mad dogs and journalists After a career making murder case that proved personal bad news, sharp witted journalist Alex Bernier swears she’s going to report stories, not make them. Then a serial killer declares hunting season in her eccentric upstate New York university town ? and is only too happy to keep Alex, the reporter covering the case, personally in his twisted loop. To stop him, Alex must face off against an attractive police detective, a ruthless New York Times reporter, and a tech happy student voyeur. But as she races through a maze of bewildering leads, she doesn?t know her rabidly clever subject is out to kill her story ? permanently ?
The Fourth Wall
After a near fatal confrontation with a serial killer, irreverent reporter Alex Bernier is more than happy to cover a nice, dull story on the ongoing, hapless attempts to save a grand old theatre in Gabriel, the college town in upstate New York where she lives. But when the body of a long vanished actress turns up in the wreckage and high profile theatre supporters start dying off, Alex finds herself at odds with a strange troupe of suspects. There is a duplicitous former child star and a group of academic wives harbouring nasty secrets, not to mention a vicious mob boss. Again, Alex must play the detective, sorting illusion from deadly truth and, with luck, outwitting a murderer determined to bring an end to her performance.
Bad Seed
Journalist Alex Bernier has her hands full investigating a breaking story for the Gabriel Monitor. A legion of activists has besieged Benson University to protest research on genetically engineered food. The debate threatens to rip the town in half, as people in favour of using bioengineering face off against those who oppose the technology at any cost. When Kate Barnett, a charismatic plant science professor and avid proponent of genetic engineering, is found beaten to death in her lab, the activists are the number one suspects. But is it really such an open and shut case? What about Barnett’s colleagues, envious of her fame and grant money? Her troubled son, who has been in and out of jail? Or the grad student who accused Barnett of stealing her ideas? As Alex searches for the truth, she discovers that her best friend, hard drinking science reporter Jake Madison, is out of commission after an overdose everyone assumes was self inflicted everyone except Alex.
Ecstasy
After a near fatal confrontation with a serial killer, irreverent reporter Alex Bernier is more than happy to cover a nice, dull story on the ongoing, hapless attempts to save a grand old theatre in Gabriel, the college town in upstate New York where she lives. But when the body of a long vanished actress turns up in the wreckage and high profile theatre supporters start dying off, Alex finds herself at odds with a strange troupe of suspects. There is a duplicitous former child star and a group of academic wives harbouring nasty secrets, not to mention a vicious mob boss. Again, Alex must play the detective, sorting illusion from deadly truth and, with luck, outwitting a murderer determined to bring an end to her performance.
See Isabelle Run
Combining thrills with attitude, this novel follows a jilted bride uncoveringsinister secrets at a multimedia empire.
The Mortician’s Daughter
Ginny Lavoie has just been suspended from the NYPD when she gets a late night phone call and hears two awful words: ‘
and runs into childhood ghosts and new demons every step of the way. After the town’s first murder in recent memory gives way to a second, then a third, Ginny must race to find the killer’s identity before she becomes victim number four.
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