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Amateur Sleuths: Lev A.C. Rosen, Tom Ryan & Leonie Swann

Lev A.C. Rosen, Tom Ryan, and Leonie Swann
Expect humor, delightfully eccentric detectives, and crime fiction full of heart
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Expect humor, delightfully eccentric detectives, and crime fiction full of heart in this lively conversation between authors Lev A.C. Rosen, Tom Ryan, and Leonie Swann. Rosen presents The Disaster Gay Detective Agency, following a chaotic yet endearing group of queer sleuths tackling a case as messy as their personal lives. Ryan introduces We Had a Hunch, a page-turning mystery for readers nostalgic for teen sleuth stories like Nancy Drew, but with a twist – what happens to your favorite teenaged detectives when they grow up? Lastly, Swann adds Agnes Sharp and the Wedding to Die For to the mix, an offbeat whodunit where a sharp-tongued retiree is drawn into a deadly wedding-day mystery.

From award-winning, critically acclaimed crime writer Lev Rosen comes a punchy, hilarious mystery-thriller. Meet the disaster gays: They're messy.
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Nancy Drew meets Yellowjackets in a new small-town mystery from USA TODAY bestselling author Tom Ryan that asks a simple question: what happens to your favorite teenage detectives when they grow up? Twenty-Five Years Ago Few stories captured the public’s imagination in the year 2,000 like the friendly rivalry between the Teen Detectives of Edgar Mills, Massachusetts. Twin sisters Alice and Samantha VanDyne were thrust in the spotlight when they helped their father Sheriff Bill VanDyne identify and track down a slippery drug smuggling ring.
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The Agnes Sharp mystery series ends with a bang in this explosive finale from the author of Three Bags Full. The octogenarian housemates at Sunset Hall are busy preparing for the wedding of one of their own, the blind and blushing bride Bernadette, but as the big day approaches, they must fend off a mysterious killjoy from the past. Spring is in the air, and Sunset Hall is abuzz with anticipation of Bernadette’s upcoming wedding.
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Lev A.C. Rosen is an award-winning author who writes books for people of all ages.

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Tom Ryan is the author of two adult mysteries, the internationally bestselling The Treasure Hunters Club, which was a 2025 Edgar nominee for the Lilian Jackson Braun Award, and We Had a Hunch, which Publishers Weekly called “criminally good fun”. He is also the author of the YA mystery Keep This to Yourself, winner of the 2020 ITW Thriller Award for Best Young Adult Novel, the 2020 Arthur Ellis Award for Best YA Crime Book, and the 2021 Ann Connor Brimer Award.

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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.

Dates & Times

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Sat, June 6, 2026
1:00pm
2:00pm
A book signing will follow this event

Passes

3-Day Pass
Early Bird
$70 + HST
(Available until April 30)
Regular
$79 + HST
Under 30
$39 + HST
Saturday Pass
Regular
$36 + HST
Under 30
$20 + HST

Venue

Alumni Hall, Victoria College
91 Charles St W, Toronto, ON

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