Award-winning Canadian author Anthony Bidulka captured reader’s hearts with the Merry Bell series, the only Canadian Prairie-based cozy mystery series featuring a transgender PI, Merry Bell. To Celebrate the forthcoming release of ‘Home Fires Burn,’ the final Merry Bell book, we are offering the other books in the series, along with some cozy treats. And if that wasn’t enough, direct from Stonehouse is the best way to support independent Canadian Publishing, while getting the new release at the very earliest possible day. Get your package, mark your calendar, and treat yourself.

HOME FIRES BURN (Book 3, pre-order, shipping end of May 2025)
From the author of Crime Writers of Canada Best Crime Novel, ‘Going to Beautiful’, comes the final book of the Merry Bell trilogy. When a celebrated philanthropist is found slumped against his car, frozen to death, PI Merry Bell is hired by his son, country music star Evan Whatley, to find out the truth behind what really happened on that desolate stretch of road. As Merry’s investigation uncovers old wounds that never healed, her own are revealed as she confronts her pre-transition past and questions the boundaries of family and friendship.

FROM SWEETGRASS BRIDGE (Book 2)
A nation holds its breath. On a perfect prairie summer evening, Saskatchewan Roughrider Dustin Thomson goes missing. As the Green & White’s first primary quarterback born in the province and first Indigenous quarterback, Thomson is beloved and celebrated. Mistrusting the police investigation, the family hires Merry Bell P.I. to find the football star. From the dark waters below Sweetgrass Bridge to the lands of Little Turtle Lake First Nation, Merry seeks answers while dealing with her continuing transition, swelling loneliness, a floundering career, well-meaning crossdressing assistant and having to decide whether the people in her life are friend or foe. 

LIVINGSKY (Book 1)
Merry Bell needed to get out of Vancouver. Fast. Returning to her home town of Livingsky, Saskatchewan was a desperate step. Living with plenty of secrets, but no money, friends, or place to live during a prairie winter, all while trying to start her own PI business proves to be more of a challenge than she imagined. With a first case that quickly turns more dangerous than it first appeared, Merry must deal with a dodgy client, the murder of the surgeon who performed her gender affirming surgery, and more than one mysterious stranger.  

As Merry struggles to start over in her home town, she not only has to unwind a mystery which imperils Livingsky's most powerful people, but must face a past she'd rather leave behind.