Bücher der Reihe Norm Strom Crime Series

The Highway of Tears is real. Since 1969 there have been over 1,200 women reported missing in north-western Canada. 23 of those women disappeared along the stretch of Trans Canada Highway #16 that runs from Prince George to Prince Rupert, in British Columbia.Finding Hope is the story of one woman who goes missing after leaving Jasper, on her way home to see her daughter in Stewart, B.C. She is well aware of the notorious Highway of Tears, and the serial killers who use the road as their hunting ground. Retired Police Detective Norm Strom rides his motorcycle from Calgary to Hyder, Alaska, and meets Hope Lachance in Jasper before she is reported missing. For his own personal reasons, Strom reaches out to the RCMP, offering his help in Finding Hope.

Arson detective Norm Strom is always one step behind a serial arsonist who is responsible for torching several buildings in the city. He tracks down known arsonist Johnny Eagle and turns him into his informant, hoping to use one torch to catch another.Eagle tells all, revealing the pleasure and satisfaction that he gets from setting and watching a raging inferno. Detective Strom relies on Eagle and his other informants to help him discover the true identity of the serial arsonist. To keep the cops off his back, Johnny Eagle rats on his own friends. Is he playing with fire on both sides of the fence?Detective Strom and Johnny Eagle each tell their own version of the story, putting the reader right in the middle of a dangerous game of cat and rat.

Best Friends Patrick Kelly and Jimmy Flynn, from Belfast, share a common dream of a better life beyond the borders of their small island. In his quest to see the world, Patrick Kelly joins the military. He’s sent to VietNam to fight the spread of communism. Jimmy Flynn is mad at the world and he joins the IRA. He fights a war against his own countrymen, in the name of religion.Norm Strom joins one of the largest street gangs in the world, becoming a city cop. He learns the true value of police informants in his fight against crime.The story begins on Bloody Friday, in Belfast, Ireland, and follows the characters to places like the jungle in Cambodia, and cities like Boston, Detroit, Toronto, and Windsor. Their personal lives and relationships unfold and intersect with each other, both in love and war. Women, drugs, and guns are the common denominator that eventually draws them all together for a fatal reunion. In their individual endeavors to either fight crime, or profit from it, one of them will have to pay the ultimate price.

Rat is the street name for a confidential police informant. Police Officer Norm Strom had several and counted on them for important information in narcotics and criminal investigations. Stories about these individuals give an insight as to who there are, where they come from, and the dangers they face helping the police. People snitch for a variety of reasons, and receive cash or consideration for their own criminal charges in return. Some become police agents under contract. Rat takes you into the underbelly of society, where drug dealers, prostitutes, and murders ply their trade. It also gives an insight to the men and women who hunt them for a living. Follow Norm Strom’s storied career and learn how he used his arsenal of informants to fight crime. 

Border City Chronicles - Four More is anthology of murder stories involving Norm Strom, taken from the personal files of retired Windsor Police Detective Edmond Gagnon. Once called Tijuana of the North or Sin City because of a gritty image and numerous strip bars, Windsor Ontario sits in the shadow Detroit Michigan, kept at arm's length by a one-mile-wide river.Gone Fishing is about two friends fishing along the Detroit River, where they meet two other men. Friendly conversation over beers turns ugly and the elderly men are nearly beaten to death. The Hadfields & McKays recounts a story of two west end families who turn an longstanding feud into a tale of cold-blooded murder.Victimless Crime is a police procedural offering a look inside the world of fraudsters, scammers and those who prey on their victims by any means necessary to make easy money.30 Years Cold is a story about the unearthed remains of a man who went missing thirty years earlier. As if time wasn't enough of a hinderance, the victim's father is a retired Deputy Chief. Four More lets you get up close and personal with Windsor's Finest and some of the brazen criminals they pursue each and every day.

Follow Edmond Gagnon and a Group of Retired Seniors staying in a small MexicanBeach Town, while they try to find out what's happened to missing and murdered touristsin their little Piece of Paradise.