Join us for a cozy conversation between authors Jane Doucet and Uzma Jalaluddin. Doucet presents Blood Typed, an uproarious, satirical contemporary mystery that follows a journalist who gets her chance to move to the crime beat when a prestigious literary awards gala she is covering is thrown into chaos by a murder. Jalaluddin returns with the latest installment in her Detective Aunty series, Moonlight Murder, where Kausar Khan is pulled back into sleuthing unexpectedly, when a young man is found murdered in the Golden Crescent neighbourhood where she lives. Hear how each author interweaves hidden tension and unexpected clues into their stories, while maintaining the endearing nature of their characters.
Welcome to the NOVA Prize gala dinner, where one Nova Scotian author will go home with the $100,000 grand prize... unless they don’t go home at all…
Val Jenkins is stuck.
Kausar Khan, the Detective Aunty, returns in a new case about the mysterious death of a young man in the Golden Crescent neighbourhood, which draws her back to the unresolved death of her son twenty years ago…
When Kausar Khan decided to move back to Toronto to be closer to her family, she didn’t expect to have another murder investigation on her hands so soon–or rather, she didn’t expect to have another murder investigation on her hands ever. But when a young man named Qasim is found dead in their Golden Crescent neighborhood, and when it turns out Qasim was close with Kausar’s granddaughter, Maleeha, what’s a grandmother to do but try to solve the case?
Jane Doucet is a Canadian journalist whose articles have appeared in such award-winning publications as
Canadian Living,
Chatelaine, and
The Globe and Mail. In 2017, she self-published her debut novel,
The Pregnant Pause.
Uzma Jalaluddin is a critically acclaimed and bestselling novelist, playwright, and teacher. She writes nuanced and entertaining stories about Muslims, South Asians, and Canadians and is the author of
Much Ado About Nada,
Three Holidays and a Wedding,
Hana Khan Carries On, and
Ayesha at Last, as well as her first play,
The Rishta.
Sat, June 6, 2026
A book signing will follow this event
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