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A MOTIVE Pass is your ticket to explore as much of the Festival as you wish. Come for a day or join for all three! Choose the type and duration that suits you best. Festival weekend will be a busy time on and around the University of Toronto campus. If you’re driving or using transit […]
Two young women are trapped in a deadly chase through the beautiful, dangerous waters around Australia in the new thriller from the bestselling author of Our Little Secret—perfect for fans of The Woman in Cabin 10 and The Drowning Woman. Ivy is in trouble. A recent break-up has left her humiliated and raw, so when her best friend, Regan, […]
There’s a fine art to murder…Hal Mulberry has long dreamt of owning the iconic painting, Buttermere at Dawn. And now the entrepreneur has got his hands on it, he’s determined to bring it back to the Lakes where it belongs and put it on show, turning Penrith Village Hall into a cultural hotspot – with […]
Lights, camera, murderIn the Lake District, someone’s laying on a deadly welcome…The cast and crew of a popular TV crime drama are shooting in the Lake District – but behind the scenes, relationships are as tense as on-screen. The director’s reputation proceeds him, the two lead stars are feuding and rumours swirl. Meanwhile the locals […]
Elizabeth Flock is an Emmy Award–winning journalist and the author of The Furies: Women, Vengeance and Justice, about women who fight back. Her work has been featured in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Atlantic, on the PBS NewsHour and Netflix. She is the host of Blind Plea, a podcast about criminalized survival. […]
S.G. (Shona) MacLean was born and brought up in the Scottish Highlands where her parents were hoteliers. She holds a PhD in History from the University of Aberdeen. She is the author of both the Alexander Seaton and the Damian Seeker series of historical mysteries, twice winning the CWA Historical Dagger for the latter. Her […]
Murray Clayton is the Program Officer and Outreach Coordinator for the Forensic Science Program at the University of Toronto, having graduated with a Master of Science in Evolutionary Anthropology in 2016, focusing on the use of elemental analysis on human bone for the purposes of assessing age-at-death in the identification process. He combines his forensic […]
Laurah Norton is the writer, researcher and host of The Fall Line, a deeply researched podcast covering cold cases in the Southeast, and One Strange Thing, a show that looks at unexplainable stories from American news archives. Previously, she was a principal senior lecturer at Georgia State University, where she taught creative writing, podcasting and […]
Catherine Mack (she/her) is the pseudonym for the USA Today and Globe & Mail bestselling author of over a dozen novels. Her books are approaching two million copies sold worldwide and have been translated into multiple languages including French, German, Portuguese, and Polish. Television rights to Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies and […]
Leonie Swann grew up near Munich and earned degrees in philosophy, communications and psychology from Munich University and the Munich School of Philosophy. Her debut novel, Three Bags Full, was published in 2005 and became an instant hit, leading the German bestseller charts for months. It has since been translated into 26 languages and won […]
Grace Gregory-Alcock is a PhD Candidate in Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Her master’s thesis validated a histological method of assessing sex through features in human femora, and her current PhD research project evaluates the variability in the microstructures of bone throughout the human skeleton. Grace has been active in missing person cases, […]
Yun Ko-eun is the winner of the 2021 CWA Dagger for Crime Fiction in Translation and was the first Asian writer to receive the award. Her prizewinning novel was praised as an ecothriller by English language media and received positive reviews throughout the US and UK. It was shortlisted for the Science Fiction and Fantasy […]
Kate Hilton is the co-author of Bury the Lead, the bestselling first novel in the Quill & Packet mystery series. She is also the author of the novels The Hole in the Middle, Just Like Family, and Better Luck Next Time. When not writing, Kate works with psychotherapy and life coaching clients in the area […]
Jeffrey Round is an author, playwright and filmmaker from Toronto. His previous books include the Dan Sharp Mysteries, the Bradford Fairfax Murder Mysteries and the acclaimed war novel The Honey Locust. He co-founded the Naked Heart Festival. Lake on the Mountain, the first Dan Sharp Mystery, won the Lambda Award for Best Gay Mystery and […]
Rick Mofina is a former journalist and bestselling author of more than 30 crime fiction thrillers that have been published in nearly 30 countries. He is a two-time winner of The Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence; a Barry Award winner; a four-time Thriller Award finalist and a two-time Shamus Award finalist. Library Journal […]
Otto Penzler, proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, founded The Mysterious Press in 1975, which publishes literary crime fiction, Penzler Publishers in 2018, which includes Scarlet, Crime Ink and American Mystery Classics, e-books through MysteriousPress.com. Penzler has won two Edgar Awards, MWA’s Ellery Queen Award and the Raven. He has been given […]
Steve Urszenyi served for many years as a paramedic in Toronto and a tactical medic with the Ontario Provincial Police. As part of an elite tactical team, he was involved in countless SWAT operations and is an expert in chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosives (CBRNE) incident response. Steve is also the former commander of […]
Roberta Rich is the #1 bestselling author of The Midwife of Venice, which was published in 13 countries, The Harem Midwife and A Trial in Venice. She divides her time between Vancouver, British Columbia and Colima, Mexico. Visit her at RobertaRich.com.
Abir Mukherjee is the Times bestselling author of the Sam Wyndham series of crime novels set in Raj era India. His debut, A Rising Man, won the CWA Endeavour Dagger for best historical crime novel of 2017 and was nominated for the MWA Edgar for best novel. His second novel, A Necessary Evil, won the […]
Dr. Karen Woodall is an Associate Professor and Forensic Toxicologist within the Forensic Science Program at the University of Toronto. She graduated in 1996 from the University of Bradford, UK with a Ph.D. in Pharmacology. She worked as a Forensic Toxicologist at the Centre of Forensic Sciences in Toronto for 20 years before joining the […]
Katrín Júlíusdóttir is a former Icelandic politician, elected in 2003 and served as Minister of Industry, Energy and Tourism, Minister of Finance and Economy and Social Democratic Alliance’s vice-chair until she retired from politics in 2016. Katrín won the Blackbird Award for best Icelandic crime debut for her first novel, Dead Sweet, hitting the bestseller […]
