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  • Promotional banner for an Open Book excerpt from A Place of Secrets by author Shane Peacock. The banner features the book cover of A Place of Secrets: A Northern Gothic Mystery by Shane Peacock, showing a snow-covered graveyard under a pale winter sky. To the right, text reads “An Excerpt from A Place of Secrets by Shane Peacock, A Northern Gothic Mystery”  above the Open Book logo on a blue background.
    Promotional banner for an Open Book excerpt from A Place of Secrets by author Shane Peacock. The banner features the book cover of A Place of Secrets: A Northern Gothic Mystery by Shane Peacock, showing a snow-covered graveyard under a pale winter sky. To the right, text reads “An Excerpt from A Place of Secrets by Shane Peacock, A Northern Gothic Mystery”  above the Open Book logo on a blue background.
    October 10, 2025

    Read an Excerpt from A PLACE OF SECRETS, a New Northern Gothic Mystery from Shane Peacock

    Shane Peacock, one of Ontario’s most accomplished storytellers, returns with A Place of Secrets (Cormorant Books), the second novel in his acclaimed Northern Gothic Mysteries series. Set against the ...

  • Interview with Shane Peacock, author of Show banner. Background image from cover of cloudy sky with illustrated old-timey blimp flying high and carrying characters below on a hammock tied to blimp by cables.  Full cover to centre-right of banner with pale border, with same image at top and illustrated coal-engine train running out of a mountain and across the landscape on a high, wooden bridge. Author name at centre, and title of book in stylized neon-lit red letters. Solid dark-red section to centre-left of banner with text and Open Book logo overlaid.
    Interview with Shane Peacock, author of Show banner. Background image from cover of cloudy sky with illustrated old-timey blimp flying high and carrying characters below on a hammock tied to blimp by cables.  Full cover to centre-right of banner with pale border, with same image at top and illustrated coal-engine train running out of a mountain and across the landscape on a high, wooden bridge. Author name at centre, and title of book in stylized neon-lit red letters. Solid dark-red section to centre-left of banner with text and Open Book logo overlaid.
    June 10, 2025

    A Ragtag Group of Liberated Performers Face Down a Vicious Tyrant in SHOW

    Prolific, award-winning author Shane Peacock turns his skills back to YA fiction this spring with a new novel that is as inventive as it is fitting for the world we're living in right at this very moment.Set ...

  • Interview with Shane Peacock, author of As We Forgive Others banner. Background image of illustrated scene with snowy northern homestead and trees and fences leading to a ramshackle cabin to the right of the banner. Image of book cover to centre left of banner with same illustration in full and text. Solid grey section to centre right with text and Open Book logo overlaid.
    Interview with Shane Peacock, author of As We Forgive Others banner. Background image of illustrated scene with snowy northern homestead and trees and fences leading to a ramshackle cabin to the right of the banner. Image of book cover to centre left of banner with same illustration in full and text. Solid grey section to centre right with text and Open Book logo overlaid.
    November 12, 2024

    A Small Ontario Town is Filled With Mystery and Danger in As We Forgive Others

    Cobourg-based author Shane Peacock has been widely read for years now. His work has won the Junior Library Guild of America Selection seven times, the Arthur Ellis Award twice, and he has been shortlisted ...

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Book cover for "The Solitary Friend" by Gail Bowen with a fish illustration; text reads, "The penultimate instalment in the beloved Joanne Kilbourn Mystery series.
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