07/27/2025
“A noir-style mystery set in the Canadian prairies isn’t something that one often finds in their literature, and Home Fires Burn is a welcome addition to the genre.”
— Meaghan Mains, Fully-Booked
Thank you to Meaghan and Fully-Booked for a marvellous review of Home Fires Burn by Anthony Bidulka (Stonehouse Publishing, 2025).
Read the review:
https://fully-booked.ca/reviews/murder-on-the-prairies-review-of-home-fires-burn-by-anthony-bidulka/
Anthony’s wonderful and critically acclaimed mystery novel is available wherever books are bought or borrowed!
Anthony’s books have been shortlisted for Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence, Saskatchewan Book Awards, a ReLit award, and Lambda Literary Awards. Flight of Aquavit was awarded the Lambda Literary Award for Best Men’s Mystery, making Bidulka the first Canadian to win in that category. In 2023, in addition to being shortlisted for a Saskatchewan Book Award and Alberta Book Publishing Award, Going to Beautiful won an Independent Publisher Book Award being named Gold Medalist as the 2023 Canada West Best Overall Fiction novel and was awarded the Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence as Canada’s Best Crime Novel for 2023.
ABOUT HOME FIRES BURN:
From the author of Crime Writers of Canada Best Crime Novel, Going to Beautiful, comes the final, standalone book of the Merry Bell trilogy. A celebrated philanthropist is found slumped against his car, frozen to death. Trans private investigator 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.
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