A Taste for Murder with Ryan Gattis, Jenny Lund Madsen, Harini Nagendra & Kwei Quartey

Ryan Gattis, Jenny Lund Madsen, Harini Nagendra and Kwei Quartey

A Taste for Murder with Ryan Gattis, Jenny Lund Madsen, Harini Nagendra & Kwei Quartey

Ryan Gattis, Jenny Lund Madsen, Harini Nagendra and Kwei Quartey

12:00pm

Friday, June 2, 2023

Whet your appetite for suspense! Bring a lunch or your favourite snack and head outdoors for a taster menu of all-things crime and mystery. Join authors Ryan Gattis, Jenny Lund Madsen, Harini Nagendra and Kwei Quartey for a playful, fun talk about crime writing, with a selection of readings from each of their latest books. This event will take place outside on the Stage in the Park and is free to attend. Picnic tables will be set up on the lawn near the stage.

Event Info:
Date & Time: June 2 at 12pm ET
Where: Stage in the Park on Harbourfront Centre’s West Lawn
Duration: 60 minutes

This reading is presented as part of the free events at #MotiveTO, taking place on the stage in the park and open to the general public. No tickets or passes are needed to attend.

This event is supported by the Royal Danish Embassy.

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Outdoor Event

Whet your appetite for suspense! Bring a lunch or your favourite snack and head outdoors for a taster menu of all-things crime and mystery. Join authors Ryan Gattis, Jenny Lund Madsen, Harini Nagendra and Kwei Quartey for a playful, fun talk about crime writing, with a selection of readings from each of their latest books. This event will take place outside on the Stage in the Park and is free to attend. Picnic tables will be set up on the lawn near the stage.

Event Info:
Date & Time: June 2 at 12pm ET
Where: Stage in the Park on Harbourfront Centre’s West Lawn
Duration: 60 minutes

This reading is presented as part of the free events at #MotiveTO, taking place on the stage in the park and open to the general public. No tickets or passes are needed to attend.

This event is supported by the Royal Danish Embassy.

Embassy of Denmark logo

Outdoor Event

Featured Authors

Ryan Gattis
Ryan Gattis (ryangattis.com) is the author of Safe, Kung Fu High School, The System, and All Involved—which won the American Library Association’s Alex Award, the Lire Award for Noir of the Year (France), and has been named one of the all-time “13 Most Essential L.A. Crime Books” (L.A. Times, 2023). He lives and writes in South Los Angeles, where he is a member of art collective UGLARworks, and a PEN America Prison Writing Mentor.

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Jenny Lund Madsen
Jenny Lund Madsen is one of Denmark’s most acclaimed scriptwriters (including the international hits Rita and Follow the Money) and is known as an advocate for better representation for sexual and ethnic minorities in Danish TV and film. She recently made her debut as a playwright with the critically acclaimed Audition (Aarhus Teater) and her debut literary thriller, Thirty Days of Darkness, first in an addictive new series, won the Harald Mogensen Prize for Best Danish Crime Novel of the year and was shortlisted for the coveted Glass Key Award. She lives in Denmark with her young family. Jenny Lund Madsen’s Festival appearance is generously supported by the Royal Danish Embassy.

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Harini Nagendra
Harini Nagendra is a Professor of Sustainability at Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India, and the author of Nature in the City: Bengaluru in the Past, Present and Future. She received a 2013 Elinor Ostrom Senior Scholar award for her research and practice on issues of the urban commons, and a 2007 Cozzarelli Prize with Elinor Ostrom from the Proceedings of the US National Academy of Sciences for research on sustainability. The Bangalore Detectives Club, the first book in the Detective Kaveri mysteries, is her first fiction novel.

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Kwei Quartey
Kwei Quartey was born in Ghana and raised by a Black American mother and a Ghanaian father. A retired physician, he lives in Pasadena. He is the author of five critically acclaimed novels in the Darko Dawson series, as well as two other books in the Emma Djan series, including The Missing American, which was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Novel.

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12:00pm

Friday, June 2

What to read

The System by , Thirty Days of Darkness by , The Bangalore Detectives Club by , Last Seen in Lapaz by ,
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