ONE WANTS THE MONEY . . . Riah Arora has traveled from Italy to San Francisco to find her twin. Born in India and separated from her sister at birth, even she isn’t sure if she’s on a mission to deliver a message from their ailing birth mother—or con her sister like one of the […]
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Jass Aujla is a Canadian South-Asian author of suspense-thriller fiction. Studying creative writing as an undergraduate at the University of Toronto, she later earned a Certificate in Creative Writing from the School of Continuing Studies at UofT. She’s passionate about creativity and personal growth, and is an active member of the Canadian Authors Association and […]
Kristi Lee is the principal writer, narrator and producer of Canadian True Crime, a podcast that unravels and analyzes thought-provoking crime cases through immersive audio storytelling. Kristi started the podcast as a personal creative passion project several years after immigrating from Australia in 2009, and to her surprise, it soon gained an audience. Today, Canadian […]
Charles Reeve is Associate Dean of Arts & Science and Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at OCAD University. He is the author of Artists and their Autobiographies from Today to the Renaissance and Back (Routledge, 2022), co-editor, with Samir Gandesha, of To Hell with Poverty, about the politics and philosophy of the para-punk band […]
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 […]
Leonie Swann grew up near Munich and earned degrees in philosophy, communications, and psychology from Munich University and the Munich School of Philosophy. Soon to be a major motion picture, 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 […]
Catherine Mack (she/her) is the pseudonym for the USA Today and Globe & Mail bestselling author of twenty-two novels. Her books have sold two million copies worldwide and have been translated into multiple languages, including French, German, Polish, and Portuguese. Film rights to Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies have been optioned. Mack […]
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 […]
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.
