Thanks for the recent suggestions, I was down to just 2 books left on my holds list (and one isn't released for another couple of months!). I did finish the Girls in the Stilt House. I'm not giving anything away, but I had it on my list for so long that I didn't realize it was a murder mystery, I thought it was going to be a living on the bayou sort of thing... My first suggestion from this thread,
The Water Keeper should be released to me in a day or two.
GingerK, the Dan Needles stories sound wonderful to me, but I don't have them available
While living in Seattle for so long, I used to watch a lot of Canadian TV and always enjoyed the yearly show Canada Reads. For Canadian authors, I've been going through Iona Whishaw's Lane Winslow books set in a small BC community after WWII. I haven't started it yet but I just got the first book by Tessa Wegert,
Death in the Family set in the 1000 islands (east coast). I really enjoyed the early books by Vicki Delany, like the Constable Molly Smith books (also set in BC). She writes perfectly nice cozy mysteries now, enjoyable but I liked the heavier themes. Another just put on the list book isn't by a Canadian author, but is inspired by Anne of Green Gables,
Anne of a Different Island by Virginia Kantra which looks fun but a lot more romance perhaps than my usual choices
I also enjoy Kelley Armstrong's Rockton books, once I got over her descriptions of Yukon forests being much more like the coastal rain forests.. suspend my disbelief and just enjoy the cast/story. I also read some of her other series.
LAF2019 -- I have added Dreamfall to my wish list. Sounds like a good one for me! I see my library does have the 2nd book available as ebook but not as audio. I have enjoyed Neil Gaiman, but I am having troubles coming to terms with recent revelations of his personal life. Will look into the others as well.