Ji Hong Sayo is a Canadian Lao-Chinese author working out of Toronto. He enjoys writing just slightly evil characters and weaving a thread of romance through action-focused genres. By day, Ji studies biomedical engineering at the University of Toronto, where he also works as a researcher and fruit fly wrangler.
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Jane Corry is a former magazine journalist who spent three years as the writer-in-residence at a high-security prison. This often hair-raising experience helped inspire her Sunday Times-bestselling psychological dramas, which have been translated into sixteen languages and sold over a million copies worldwide. This is her ninth novel.
Gregg Hurwitz is the New York Times #1 internationally bestselling author of 26 thrillers including the ORPHAN X series. His novels have won numerous literary awards and have been published in 33 languages. Gregg currently serves as the Co-President of International Thriller Writers (ITW). Additionally, he’s written comics for AWA, DC, and Marvel, sold scripts […]
Gastón Intelisano was born in Buenos Aires in 1978. He holds a degree in criminalist, is a forensic radiologist, a judicial expert, and an autopsy technician. Since 2022, he has collaborated with the forensic anthropology team at the National Genetic Data Bank. He is a columnist on forensic topics for CNN Radio Argentina. He has […]
Desmond P. Ryan’s thirty-year career as a Toronto Police detective informs his crime fiction, blending real-life policing experience with a deep understanding of human nature. He worked in some of the city’s most challenging divisions, handling everything from routine investigations to high-stakes cases, providing a foundation for the authenticity in his novels. Desmond’s writing captures […]
Bianca Marais is the bestselling author of The Witches of Moonshyne Manor, Hum If You Don’t Know the Words and If You Want to Make God Laugh. She’s an award-winning creative writing instructor, and the founder and cohost of the popular podcast, The Shit No One Tells You About Writing, which is aimed at helping […]
Adnan Khan is a screenwriter, novelist, and journalist. He has won a National Magazine Award and the RBC Taylor Emerging Writer prize, and his debut novel, There Has to Be a Knife, was named a best Canadian novel of 2019 by the CBC. His debut feature film, Shook, made its premier at the 2024 Toronto […]
Anaïs Renevier is a French independent journalist and true crime writer. She regularly travels across the United States on investigative assignments, telling the country’s story from the perspective of those living at its margins. Her first book, The Alice Crimmins Case, revisits the trial of a mother in 1960s New York. Her second, La disparue […]
True crime has long fascinated readers and audiences—not just for the who and the how, but for what these stories reveal about power, prejudice, and the societies that produce them. In this gripping opening night event, three remarkable storytellers dissect the scandals, injustices, and dark psychology at the heart of their work, and explore why […]
Two compelling narratives, one fact, one fiction, explore deception, ambition, and the fragile boundaries between authenticity and illusion in the rarefied worlds of art and fashion. In The Devil Wears Rothko, acclaimed filmmaker and author Barry Avrich tells the true story of the stunning $80 million forgery scandal that brought down one of New York’s […]
Graeme Macrae Burnet was born in Kilmarnock, Scotland, and now lives in Glasgow. His Bloody Project, his second novel, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016, won the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year Award 2016, and was shortlisted for the LA Times Book Awards 2017. His fourth novel, Case Study, was longlisted […]
Sash Bischoff is a writer and theatre director. She has written plays that have been developed at theatres throughout the US. As a director, she has worked on Broadway and off. Broadway/National Tours include Dear Evan Hansen, The Visit, On the Town, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Shrek. Sash grew up as […]
Like a John Le Carré novel updated for the digital age, Chasing Shadows provides a gripping account of how the Citizen Lab, the world’s foremost digital watchdog, has uncovered dozens of cyber espionage cases and protects people in countries around the world. Called “essential reading” by Margaret Atwood, it’s a chilling reminder of the invisible […]
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 […]
Called the “Queen of Comedy” by the Toronto Sun, Melodie Campbell was also named the “Canadian literary heir to Donald Westlake” by Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. Winner of 10 awards, including The Derringer (US) and the Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence, she has multiple bestsellers, and was featured in USA Today. Her publications […]
Elizabeth Renzetti is a bestselling Canadian author and journalist, and the co-author of the Quill & Packet mysteries. Her book What She Said: Conversations About Equality was a national bestseller in 2024. She was a columnist, feature writer, and reporter at the Globe & Mail for many years. In 2020 she won the Landsberg Award […]
Ramona Emerson is a Diné writer and filmmaker originally from Tohatchi, New Mexico. She has a bachelor’s in Media Arts from the University of New Mexico and an MFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts. After starting in forensic videography, she embarked upon a career as a photographer, writer and editor. […]
Maureen Jennings immigrated to Canada from the UK as a teenager. She is the author of the Detective Murdoch Mysteries, which has been adapted to a television series that airs around the world. The series is now in its eighteenth season. In 2024, Jennings was the recipient of the Grand Master Award from the Crime […]
Marcie Rendon is an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation, a Pinckley Prize-winning author, playwright, poet, freelance writer and a community arts activist. Rendon was awarded the McKnight Distinguished Artist Award for 2020. She is a speaker on Native issues, leadership and writing. Her second novel in her Cash Blackbear Mystery series, Girl Gone […]
Denise Mina is the author of twenty novels, including the Reese’s Book Club pick Conviction and its sequel Confidence, as well as The Second Murderer, The Less Dead, The Long Drop—winner of the 2017 McIlvanney Prize for Scottish crime book of the year—and the Garnethill trilogy, the first installment of which won the John Creasey […]
Shari Lapena is the internationally bestselling author of nine thrillers, including The Couple Next Door, which have all been New York Times, Sunday Times, and Globe and Mail bestsellers. Lapena’s books have been sold in forty territories around the world. She lives on a farm outside Toronto.
Thomas Enger is the author of the critically acclaimed Henning Juul series, the Blix and Ramm series co-written with Jørn Lier Horst, as well as the author of four books for young adults. He has also written a standalone novel. SON is his first collaboration with Johana Gustawsson. As well as writing books, Thomas also […]
Michelle Shephard is an award-winning journalist, author, filmmaker and podcast host and producer who has covered issues of terrorism and civil rights since the 9/11 attacks. During her two decades at the Toronto Star, she reported from more than 20 countries, including Somalia, Yemen, Syria, Pakistan and the U.S. Naval prison in Guantanamo Bay. Shephard […]
Linwood Barclay is the New York Times bestselling author of over twenty novels, and two thrillers for children. His books have been translated into more than two dozen languages. He wrote the screenplay adaptation for his novel Never Saw It Coming and his books The Accident and No Time for Goodbye have been made into […]
