Outdoor Tent, June 5 at 1pm ET Hear about Toronto’s crime history from the experts, Toronto Crime Tours: the only crime tour in Canada hosted by retired Detectives! Beginning every hour on June 4 & 5 between 1pm ET and 6pm ET, you can drop in to hear Toronto’s history of crime, featuring the following […]
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Outdoor Tent, June 4 at 1pm ET Hear about Toronto’s crime history from the experts, Toronto Crime Tours: the only crime tour in Canada hosted by retired Detectives! Beginning every hour on June 4 & 5 between 1pm ET and 6pm ET, you can drop in to hear Toronto’s history of crime, featuring the following […]
Norman E. Taylor has been an independent advisor, educator, author and researcher for 40 years, concentrating his practice in the field of policing and public safety for the past 25 years. Between 2008–17, he spent much of his professional life in Saskatchewan as a Senior Advisor to the Deputy Ministry of Justice: Corrections and Policing. […]
Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to crack the code! Someone has gone missing but have they left messages behind? Hidden in books, written on index cards, scribbled on the back of an old photograph; there is a mystery waiting to be solved. Part mystery puzzle, part scavenger hunt, your task is […]
Originally from South Africa, Lisa de Nikolits is an award-winning author who has been hailed as “the Queen of Canadian speculative fiction” (All Lit Up) and her short fiction and poetry have been published in various international anthologies and journals including the Crime Writers of Canada’s 40th Anniversary anthology (2022). She has a Bachelor of […]
Becky Toyne has been the Should I Read it? columnist for Day 6 on CBC Radio One since 2010. She has talked about books and authors on q and on CBC radio shows across Canada. Her writing about books and publishing has appeared in the Globe & Mail, National Post and Toronto Star.
Joe Ide grew up in South Central Los Angeles and currently lives in Santa Monica, California. His IQ series has won the Anthony, Shamus and Macavity Awards, and been nominated for the Edgar, Barry, CWA New Blood Dagger and Strand Book Critics Awards. The IQ books are currently in development as an original TV series.
First comes love. Then comes murder. Lucas Forester didn’t hate his wife. Michelle was brilliant, sophisticated and beautiful. Sure, she had extravagant spending habits, that petty attitude, a total disregard for anyone below her status. But she also had a lot to offer. Most notably: wealth that only the one percent could comprehend. For years, Lucas has been […]
Internationally bestselling author Hannah Mary McKinnon was born in the UK, grew up in Switzerland and moved to Canada in 2010. Her seven suspense novels include Never Coming Home, The Revenge List and Only One Survives, and her work has been optioned for the screen. She also writes holiday romantic comedies as Holly Cassidy. Hannah […]
Outdoors at Harbourfront Centre’s North Orchard, June 4 at 1–6pm ET Listen in as people impacted by incarceration share true stories about their experiences. An audio installation created in collaboration by 5 community contributors, Emma Zabloski, Jeni Luther, and Trophy. This installation is part of the free, outdoor events at MOTIVE. It is open to […]
Amy Stuart is the #1 bestselling author of three novels, Still Mine, Still Water and Still Here. Shortlisted for the Arthur Ellis Best First Novel Award and winner of the 2011 Writers’ Union of Canada Short Fiction Competition, Amy is the founder of Writerscape, an online community for hopeful and emerging writers. Amy lives in Toronto […]
Ever wonder what it would be like to pitch a book idea? Crime Writers of Canada (CWC), a national non-profit organization for Canadian crime and mystery writers, will invite a special selection of four aspiring writers to experience the opportunity to pitch their book ideas to a panel of publishing industry experts. The writers will […]
Carolyn Forde is a Partner, Senior Literary Agent and International Rights Director at Transatlantic Agency. She represents a wide variety of authors, ranging from bestselling commercial fiction to award-winning literary fiction, memoir, narrative non-fiction and investigative journalism. Carolyn is an active member of the literary community and has participated as speaker or mentor with the […]
David Whitton is the author of the story collection, The Reverse Cowgirl (Freehand Books), and the novel, Seven Down (Dundurn Press). His short fiction has appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including Darwin’s Bastards, Best Canadian Stories, and Journey Prize Stories. He is a graduate of the University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA. […]