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R.E. Donald

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in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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Average rating: 4.08 · 7,950 ratings · 556 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	Sundown on Top of the World (A Hunter Rayne Highway Mystery, #4) 4.17 avg rating — 2,173 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sea to Sky (A Hunter Rayne Highway Mystery, #3) 4.07 avg rating — 2,062 ratings — published 2012 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ice on the Grapevine (A Hunter Rayne Highway Mystery, #2) 4.02 avg rating — 1,816 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yellowhead Blues (Hunter Rayne Highway Mystery #5) 4.38 avg rating — 874 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slow Curve on the Coquihalla (A Hunter Rayne Highway Mystery, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 912 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	White Liners: Hunter Rayne Highway Mystery Sketches 3.44 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Joggers 2.47 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Once again, life got in the way of my writing. I was soooo close to finishing the 6th novel in the Highway Mysteries series when we got an offer we couldn’t refuse a

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“in order to have the freedom of living in a vast, sparsely populated territory where individualism and eccentricity were celebrated instead of frowned upon or ridiculed.”
― R.E. Donald, Sundown on Top of the World

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“Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous”
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“dozen dogs in the dog yard, each tied to their own dog house with a chain. Whoever lived in the cabin used a dog team to get around in the winter. “These your footprints, Mr. Klimmer?”
― R.E. Donald, Sundown on Top of the World

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