| Principles to Live By | |
| Author: | David Adams Richards |
| Country: | Canada |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Novel |
| Publisher: | Doubleday Canada |
| Release Date: | 2016 |
| Media Type: | Hardback, Paperback |
| Isbn: | 978-0-385-68245-9 |
| Preceded By: | Crimes Against My Brother |
Principles to Live By is the 16th novel by Canadian writer David Adams Richards, published in 2016.[1]
The novel centres on John Delano, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer with a troubled personal life, who is investigating the cold case death of a young boy in 1999.[2]
The novel includes a scene in which Richards pokes fun at his own earlier novel Nights Below Station Street, with people in a local bar dismissing it as a "dirty, ignorant novel" that "nobody in their right mind would want to read".[2]