A truly Canadian cozy mystery, All Rise for Murder finds three generations of Kirby women suddenly under one roof in charming West Elk—just as the peaceful town seems to become the centre of a devious plot to frame an innocent young man for murder. Maude Kirby has recently been dumped by her diplomat husband and […]
Read more »
Follow the Rites… Nothing less than the survival of humanity is at stake. From Marcus Kliewer, a new “titan of the macabre and unsettling” (Erin A. Craig, #1 New York Times bestselling author), comes a supernatural horror about a young woman who accepts a caretaking job from Craigslist, only to discover the position has consequences […]
Jinwoo Park is a Korean Canadian writer based in Montreal. He completed a master’s degree in creative writing at the University of Oxford, and currently works as a marketer in the tech industry. In 2021, he won the Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award. Oxford Soju Club is his first novel.
The natural enemy of a Korean is another Korean. When North Korean spymaster Doha Kim is mysteriously killed in Oxford, his protégé, Yohan Kim, chases the only breadcrumb given to him in Doha’s last breath: “Soju Club, Dr. Ryu.” In the meantime, a Korean American CIA agent , Yunah Choi, races to salvage her investigation […]
Desmond P. Ryan spent nearly 30 years as a detective with the Toronto Police Service, working in some of the city’s toughest neighborhoods. His frontline experience informs crime fiction known for its authenticity and edge. He is the author of The Mike O’Shea Series and A Pint of Trouble, exploring both gritty policing and offbeat […]
Marcus Kliewer is a writer and stop-motion animator. His debut novel We Used to Live Here began life as a serialized short story on Reddit. Film rights were snapped up by Netflix, and it was acquired by Simon & Schuster in the US for publication even before it had been extended into a full-length novel. […]
KJ Howe is the international bestselling author of the Thea Paris series, featuring an elite female kidnap negotiator. She has won three Daphne du Maurier Awards and a Thriller Award while completing her Masters in Writing Popular Fiction at Seton Hill University. KJ is also the executive director of the International Thriller Writers, an organization […]
Clare Mackintosh is a former police officer and a bestselling crime author. Her books have sold more than three million copies, been optioned for television and translated into forty languages. She appears regularly at literary festivals and bookshop events across the UK and beyond.
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 […]
March roars in, and Charlotte Frayne, P.I. must resolve “a grave miscarriage of justice” to save the lives of two young men. “A grave injustice.” Those are the words in the letter sent to Charlotte Frayne, P.I., on a cold March morning. The newspapers have reported on the arrest of two Black teenagers in a […]
Karma Brown is the author of ten novels, including Mother is Watching, the #1 international bestseller Recipe for a Perfect Wife, What Wild Women Do, Come Away with Me (a Globe & Mail Best Book of 2015), Globe and Mail and Toronto Star bestsellers The Choices We Make and In This Moment, and The Life […]
Don Gillmor is the author of To the River, which won the Governor General’s Award for non-fiction. He is the author of three novels: Long Change, Mount Pleasant and Kanata. He is also the author of a two-volume history of Canada, Canada: A People’s History, and has written nine books for children, two of which were […]
Born in Marseille, Johana Gustawsson‘s Roy & Castells series – Block 46, Keeper and Blood Song – won the Plume d’Argent, Balai de la découverte, Balai d’Or and Prix Marseillais du Polar awards and is published in 26 countries. The Bleeding was a No. 1 bestseller in France and Yule Island won Book of the […]
Jonathan Whitelaw is a writer, award-winning journalist and broadcaster. After working on the frontline of Scottish politics, he moved into journalism, covering everything from sports to music to radioactive waste – and everything in between. He’s also a regular reviewer, panellist and commentator. Find him on X @JDWhitelaw13.
Toronto’s past is filled with passion and heartache. The Toronto Book of Love brings the history of the city to life with fascinating true tales of romance, marriage, and lust: from the scandalous love affairs of the city’s early settlers to the prime minister’s wife partying with rock stars on her anniversary; from ancient First […]
Exploring Toronto’s history through the stories of its most fascinating and shadowy deaths. If these streets could talk… With morbid tales of war and plague, duels and executions, suicides and séances, Toronto’s past is filled with stories whose endings were anything but peaceful. The Toronto Book of the Dead delves into these: from ancient First Nations burial […]
Roz Nay is the author of four bestselling and acclaimed thrillers: 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 Novel Award; Hurry Home and The Hunted, which were both shortlisted for […]
Internationally bestselling author Hannah Mary McKinnon was born in the UK, grew up in Switzerland and moved to Canada in 2010. Her suspense novels include The Revenge List, Only One Survives, and A Killer Motive, which is her eleventh book. Her work has been optioned for the screen, and she also writes holiday romantic comedies […]
Robyn Harding is the bestselling author of Strangers in the Villa, The Haters, The Drowning Woman, The Perfect Family, The Swap, The Arrangement, Her Pretty Face, and The Party. She has also written and executive produced an independent film. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with her family and two cute but deadly rescue chihuahuas.
Nita Prose is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid series, which has sold over three million copies worldwide. The Maid was a Good Morning America Book Club Pick and won the Ned Kelly Award for International Crim Fiction, the Fingerprint Award for Debut Novel of the Year, and the Anthony Award […]
Nicole Lundrigan is the author of several critically acclaimed novels, including the bestselling A Man Downstairs, as well as An Unthinkable Thing, and Hideaway, which were both shortlisted for the Best Crime Novel Award in Canada. Her work has appeared on “best of” selections from The Globe and Mail, Amazon, Chatelaine, NOW Magazine, and more. […]
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 […]
Icelandic crime writer Lilja Sigurðardóttir was born in the town of Akranes and raised in Mexico, Sweden, Spain and Iceland. An award-winning playwright, Lilja has written twelve crime novels, including the Reykjavík Noir trilogy (shortlisting for and winning multiple awards) a standalone thriller Betrayal. TV rights for the trilogy have been bought by Glassriver. Cold […]
