Building a Mystery: What Makes a Satisfying Sleuthhound Story?

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• More details about Melissa Yi

  Melissa Yi

  Melissa Yi is an emergency physician and writer of tales to make you laugh and think, from the crime-fighting, ghost-talking Dr. Hope Sze to the romance of Pride & Provocateur, where Jane Austen is reimagined in contemporary Newfoundland. Melissa has won the Derringer Award for mystery and the Prix Aurora Award for poetry. She has never met a genre she doesn't like, including science fiction, fantasy, and non-fiction under the name Melissa Yuan-Innes. She lives in Eastern Ontario, Canada, with her family, including two happy rescue dogs.

• More details about Bob Nothnagel

  Bob Nothnagel

  Bob Nothnagel served 25 years in the Canadian Armed Forces. He began writing in earnest in 2018 and has published two books of short stories, Tales of Adventure Murder and Mayhem as well as Tales from the Dark Side. He has a fantasy trilogy in the works and is currently working on a novel called First Response where two serial killers are murdering paramedics and police, while an arsonist burns down fire stations.

• More details about Louise Carson

  Louise Carson

  Born in Montreal and raised in Hudson, Quebec, Louise Carson studied music in Montreal and Toronto, played jazz piano and sang in the chorus of the Canadian Opera Company. She has published eighteen books: three collections of poetry -- A Clearing, Dog Poems, and The Truck Driver Treated for Shock; three stand-alone works of fiction -- Mermaid Road, Executor, and The Last Unsuitable Man; The Chronicles of Deasil Widdy trilogy -- In Which (shortlisted for the 2019 QWF price for Children's literature and the 2019 ReLit Award), Measured, and Third Circle; as well as the stand-alone prequel to the Deasil Widdy books -- Rope: A Tale Told in Prose and Verse; and her Maples Mystery series -- The Cat Among Us, The Cat Vanishes, The Cat Between, The Cat Possessed, A Clutter of Cats, The Cat Looked Back, The Cat Crosses a Line, and The Cat Laughs. Carson lives with two cats in St-Lazare, Quebec, where she writes and either shovels snow or gardens, depending on the season.

• More details about HOSTED BY: N.P. Thompson

  HOSTED BY: N.P. Thompson

  N.P. Thompson is the founder/organizer of Canada Fiction Fest. She is also the award-winning author of River of Crows and the other books in The Arcanium saga. She lives in Ottawa, Canada with her two awesome kids and a very lazy cat.