Author Readings: Mystery Authors
Description
Join these Canadian mystery authors as they read from their books, and be sure to check out our full list of live virtual sessions for this year's event at: FictionFest.ca/events
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J.P. Bird
JP writes cozy mysteries with quirky characters that make her laugh when they disagree with the laid-out plans for their story and take her on a different path. She lives in Winnipeg, Canada, and hates the cold weather but loves the winter months because they’re a great excuse to hibernate with a cup of tea or a glass of red wine. When she’s not writing or reading, she spends her summers in the garden and her winters plotting how to win her neighbourhood Christmas display competition. They don’t know it’s a competition, but she plays to win nonetheless.
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.
Suzanne Craig-Whytock
Suzanne Craig-Whytock is the award-winning author of six novels, two short story collections, and the humorous non-fiction publication What Any Normal Person Would Do (longlisted for the 2024 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour). She is also the editor-in-chief of DarkWinter Press and Literary Magazine and Baxter House Editions, an Ontario, Canada-based publishing company, which publishes short story and poetry collections, novels, and novellas from authors in Canada and around the world.
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.
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.
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