A Tale of Two Crime Cities: Dietrich Kalteis & Sam Wiebe

Sam Wiebe and Dietrich Kalteis

A Tale of Two Crime Cities: Dietrich Kalteis & Sam Wiebe

Sam Wiebe and Dietrich Kalteis

11:30am

Saturday, June 3, 2023

Join acclaimed authors Dietrich Kalteis and Sam Wiebe for an intriguing conversation about their latest novels and the Canadian cities at their core. Dietrich Kalteis’s The Get is a fast-paced, action-packed thriller featuring mid-1960s Toronto as the backdrop for Lenny Ovitz’s crime, bad decisions and questionable plan to murder his wife. Sam Wiebe’s Sunset and Jericho, the fourth book in the Wakeland detective series, explores the depths of Vancouver’s criminal underworld as PI Dave Wakeland begins with a search for a missing revolver, but finds himself on the front lines of class warfare instead.

Moderator: Lisa de Nikolits

Event Info:
Date & Time: June 3 at 11:30am ET
Where: Lakeside Terrace at Harbourfront Centre
Duration: 60 minutes
Available with a MOTIVE Day or Weekend Pass
*This event will be followed by a book signing

Conversation

Join acclaimed authors Dietrich Kalteis and Sam Wiebe for an intriguing conversation about their latest novels and the Canadian cities at their core. Dietrich Kalteis’s The Get is a fast-paced, action-packed thriller featuring mid-1960s Toronto as the backdrop for Lenny Ovitz’s crime, bad decisions and questionable plan to murder his wife. Sam Wiebe’s Sunset and Jericho, the fourth book in the Wakeland detective series, explores the depths of Vancouver’s criminal underworld as PI Dave Wakeland begins with a search for a missing revolver, but finds himself on the front lines of class warfare instead.

Moderator: Lisa de Nikolits

Event Info:
Date & Time: June 3 at 11:30am ET
Where: Lakeside Terrace at Harbourfront Centre
Duration: 60 minutes
Available with a MOTIVE Day or Weekend Pass
*This event will be followed by a book signing

Conversation

Featured Authors

Sam Wiebe is the award-winning author of the Wakeland novels, one of the most authentic and acclaimed detective series in Canada, including Invisible Dead (“the definitive Vancouver crime novel”), Cut You Down (“successfully brings Raymond Chandler into the 21st century”), Hell and Gone ("the best crime writer in Canada") and Sunset and Jericho ("Terminal City’s grittiest, most intelligent, most sensitively observed contemporary detective series"). Wiebe’s work has won the Crime Writers of Canada award and the Kobo Emerging Writers prize, and been shortlisted for the Edgar, Hammett, Shamus, and City of Vancouver book prizes.

Read more about Sam Wiebe

Dietrich Kalteis is the winner of the 2022 Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence for Best Crime Novel for Under an Outlaw Moon. He is a critically acclaimed author of 10 novels. Dietrich’s debut was hailed as one of Vancouver’s best crime novels, his second was translated and became a bestseller in Germany, and two others have won Independent Publisher Awards. He enjoys life with his family on Canada’s West Coast.

Read more about Dietrich Kalteis

11:30am

Saturday, June 3

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The Get by , Sunset and Jericho by ,
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