About
Never underestimate a strong female protagonist on the hunt for justice. Set in 1930s Toronto, Maureen Jennings’ March Roars sees private investigator Charlotte Frayne embark on a mission to solve a great injustice. In The Jazz Club Spy by Roberta Rich, a cigarette girl in 1930s New York City moonlights as a spy and must use all her wits to save her loved ones. In this author conversation, delve further into the world of courageous women facing prejudices during this era.
Moderator: Judith Pereira
March roars in and Charlotte Frayne, P.I., receives a letter requesting her services to prevent “a grave miscarriage of justice.” The sender, Miss Olivia Brodie, is an elderly resident in the Toronto House of Industry (the Poor House) who claims she witnessed two men on a nearby street, behaving in a suspicious manner. After learning that two Black teenagers have been charged with burglary on that same street, she is convinced the men she saw are the true culprits.
A riveting historical thriller about a Jewish cigarette girl in 1930s New York who finds the soldier who burned down her Russian village years earlier only to be swept up in a political conspiracy on the eve of World War II—from the #1 bestselling author of The Midwife of Venice.
New York, 1939
Giddy Brodsky knows she’s lucky to have a job as a cigarette girl at a Manhattan jazz club, but she dreams of opening her own beauty shop and lifting her family out of poverty. The Brodskys have lived cheek to jowl in the Lower East Side tenements since they came to America nineteen years ago, fleeing a deadly pogrom in their Russian village.
Maureen Jennings was born in the UK. Best known for the Detective Murdoch books, which have been adapted into the long-running television series,
Murdoch Mysteries; she is also the author of the Tom Tyler and Christine Morris series.
Roberta Rich is the #1 bestselling author of
The Midwife of Venice, which was published in 13 countries,
The Harem Midwife and
A Trial in Venice. She divides her time between Vancouver, British Columbia and Colima, Mexico.
Dates & Times
Sun, June 9
A book signing will follow this event
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Venue
Lakeside Terrace
235 Queens Quay West, Toronto, ON
