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Step behind the filters and façades of online celebrity with two electrifying thrillers that expose the lethal consequences of living someone else’s life. Award-winning Scottish writer, Denise Mina’s Conviction, sees Anna recovering from a devastating breakup and immersing herself in the world of a true crime podcast, only to discover she knows one of the victims. In Liann Zhang’s Julie Chan is Dead, a down-on-her-luck woman inherits her late twin’s glamorous influencer empire and access to an exclusive inner circle, only to discover a gilded world full of secrets, suspicion, and potential murder on an island retreat.

Moderated by Aparita Bhandari.

Mina’s appearance is supported by Scottish Books International.

The Good Liar

In this provocative mystery from beloved crime writer Denise Mina, new evidence in an old murder case forces one woman to make an impossible choice. WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO TELL THE TRUTH WHEN YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON A LIE? A year ago, a father and his fiancée were brutally murdered in their opulent London townhouse, sparking the most high-profile murder investigation in recent history. Blood spatter expert Doctor Claudia O’Sheil’s evidence put the killer behind bars—or so everyone believes.

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Published by Mulholland Books

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Julie Chan Is Dead

In this razor-sharp, diabolical debut thriller, a young woman steps into her deceased twin’s influencer life, only to discover dark secrets hidden behind her social media façade. Julie Chan has nothing. Her twin sister has everything.

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Published by Simon & Schuster Canada

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Conviction

A true crime podcast sets a trophy wife’s present life on a collision course with her secret past in this “blazingly intense” Reese Witherspoon book club pick and New York Times Best Crime Novel of the Year (A. J.

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Published by Hachette Book Group

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Denise Mina

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 Memorial Award for best first crime novel, among others. Mina has twice received the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.

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Liann Zhang

Liann Zhang is a second-generation Chinese Canadian who splits her time between Vancouver, British Columbia and Toronto, Ontario. After a short stint as a skincare content creator, she graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in psychology and criminology. Julie Chan Is Dead is her first novel.

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Dates & Times

Sat, Jun 28

3:00pm

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4:00pm

A book signing will follow this event

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Venue

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