Michelle Kaatz is the Director of Original Content at Rakuten Kobo, where she oversees the English language publishing program. In her career, she has published over 200 eBook and audiobook titles across a breadth of genres, including non-fiction, romance, and thriller. Before Rakuten Kobo, she was the publisher at Novel Audio and an original co-founder […]
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Explore Indigo’s bookstore in the Marilyn Brewer Community Space inside Harbourfront Centre all weekend. From cozy mysteries to chilling thrillers, true crime to police procedurals, the bookstore will be stocked with all the must reads in crime and mystery. Hours: Friday, June 3 between 4–9:30pm Saturday, June 4 between 10am – 9pm Sunday, June 5 […]
Outdoor Tent, June 5 at 11am ET Be sure to visit the Kobo Cabana Reading Lounge at MOTIVE Festival! The welcoming space will have a charging station, comfy couches and some delicious treats. It’s the perfect place to relax, get book recommendations and chat with other crime and mystery fans. This space is part of […]
Outdoor Tent, June 4 at 11am ET Be sure to visit the Kobo Cabana Reading Lounge at MOTIVE Festival! The welcoming space will have a charging station, comfy couches and some delicious treats. It’s the perfect place to relax, get book recommendations and chat with other crime and mystery fans. This space is part of […]
Miriam Henry is an Assistant Crown Attorney who has dedicated her career to supporting better outcomes for justice-involved youth. She is one of the Ministry of the Attorney General’s leading experts on Youth Criminal Justice and has over two decades of prosecutorial experience, much of it as the Crown Team Lead at 311 Jarvis, Toronto’s […]
Anthony Morgan is an entrepreneur, game designer, PhD researcher. He’s the former host of Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet and one of the current hosts of CBC’s The Nature of Things. He’s spent close to 20 years working across multiple disciplines in science communication including live engagements at the Ontario Science Center, web series production for […]
Valerie Blackmore is the President and CEO of Wyndham Forensic Group, a private forensic biology and DNA testing laboratory in Guelph, Ontario. Valerie’s career as a forensic biologist began in 1994 at the Government of Ontario’s Centre of Forensic Sciences following improvements to the justice system after the Paul Bernardo murders. In 2009, Valerie founded […]
C.S. O’Cinneide is the Edgar-nominated author of the Candace Starr crime series as well as Petra’s Ghost, a semi-finalist in the Goodreads Choice Awards. On her blog, She Kills Lit, she features women writers of thriller and noir. She lives in Guelph, Ontario.
Celeste Bilbao-Joseph is a freelance Spanish Interpreter who works for multiple Interpreting Agencies in the GTA. She has been interpreting in medical, legal and community settings in Toronto for over a decade, performing consecutive, simultaneous and conference interpreting in multiple settings. Celeste specializes in Legal Interpretation and works for the Ministry of the Attorney General […]
Liam Hendrikse was born in Nassau, Bahamas, and raised in the Toronto area. He graduated from McMaster University in 1995, and King’s College University of London in 1998. He was a British Home Office Forensic Scientist from 1998 until 2006, where he specialized in firearms and ballistics. He now resides in Hamilton, acting as a […]
Jonathan Rudin is the Program Director at Aboriginal Legal Services. He is a lawyer and has appeared before all levels of courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada. Jonathan has written and spoken widely on issues of Indigenous justice. His book, Indigenous People and the Criminal Justice System won the Walter Owen Book Prize from […]
Giulia De Gasperi was born in Italy and has lived in Canada, Scotland and the USA. She is currently a freelance editor and literary translator working in English and Italian, and curates Collana Canada (Italian translations of Canadian literary works) for an independent Italian publisher. She is a member of the Writers’ Union of Canada, of […]
José Teodoro is the author of several works for the stage including Cloudless, which was recently adapted into an audio drama presented by Canadian Stage and Screen Door, which made its debut in December and was recorded by Applied Silence, José’s music/narrative partnership with Stephen Lyons, and will be released digitally and on vinyl this […]
Honourable Justice Mary L. Hogan, Ontario Court of Justice.
Mimi Okabe holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Alberta where she has taught courses in the Japanese language, as well as translation, popular culture, sci-if, detective fiction and world literature. She is an award-winning instructor and is the co-founder of Japanese for Nikkei, an online teaching and learning platform for Nikkei […]
Roz Nay is the bestselling author of Hurry Home and Our Little Secret, which won the Douglas Kennedy Prize for best foreign thriller in France and was nominated for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Mystery and the Arthur Ellis Best First Crime Novel Award. Roz has lived and worked in Africa, Australia, the US […]
Dr. Julius Haag is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. His areas of interest include policing, youth justice, racialization, ethnicity and criminal justice policy. His research draws on urban sociology, critical race theory, and cultural criminology to explore the individual and community-level impacts of policing and criminalization […]
Jane Gerster is an independent reporter based in Toronto, whose work has appeared in magazines and newspapers across Canada. She also teaches journalism at Toronto Metropolitan University. Jane is the author of For the Good of the Force, a critical history of the Canadian Mounties forthcoming from McClelland & Stewart (2023).
