The Island: Adrian McKinty

Adrian McKinty and Stuart Neville

The Island: Adrian McKinty

Adrian McKinty and Stuart Neville

11:30am

Saturday, June 4, 2022

You don’t often know what you’re capable of until your family’s in jeopardy. Northern Ireland’s Adrian McKinty explores this sentiment in his latest thriller, The Island. When Heather Baxter’s family vacation on an elusive island with her new husband and step-children turns into a dangerous nightmare, nothing is off-limits. After being separated from her husband, Heather is determined to save herself and the kids at any cost, even if it means doing the unthinkable to stay alive. Meet the Dagger and Edgar-award nominated author in person and dive into this brilliantly suspenseful story, which is soon to be a Hulu original series.

Interviewer: Stuart Neville

Ticket Info:
Date & Time: June 4 at 11:30am ET
Where: Lakeside Terrace at Harbourfront Centre
Duration: 45 minutes
Ticket prices: $16.50 – Regular; $12.50 – Youth; or Get the All-Access Pass
*This event will be followed by a book signing

Conversation

You don’t often know what you’re capable of until your family’s in jeopardy. Northern Ireland’s Adrian McKinty explores this sentiment in his latest thriller, The Island. When Heather Baxter’s family vacation on an elusive island with her new husband and step-children turns into a dangerous nightmare, nothing is off-limits. After being separated from her husband, Heather is determined to save herself and the kids at any cost, even if it means doing the unthinkable to stay alive. Meet the Dagger and Edgar-award nominated author in person and dive into this brilliantly suspenseful story, which is soon to be a Hulu original series.

Interviewer: Stuart Neville

Ticket Info:
Date & Time: June 4 at 11:30am ET
Where: Lakeside Terrace at Harbourfront Centre
Duration: 45 minutes
Ticket prices: $16.50 – Regular; $12.50 – Youth; or Get the All-Access Pass
*This event will be followed by a book signing

Conversation

Featured Authors

Adrian McKinty was born and grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He studied philosophy at Oxford University before moving to Australia and to New York. He is the author of more than a dozen crime novels, including the Dagger and Edgar-award nominated debut Dead I Well May Be, the critically acclaimed Sean Duffy series, and the award-winning standalone thriller The Chain, which was a New York Times and #1 international bestseller. McKinty’s books have been translated into over 30 languages, and he has won the Edgar Award, the International Thriller Writers Award, the Ned Kelly Award and more.

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Stuart Neville, the “king of Belfast noir” (The Guardian), is the author of the short story collection The Traveller, as well as nine novels, for which he has won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and been shortlisted for the Edgar, Macavity, Dilys, Barry, and Anthony Awards as well as the CWA Steel Dagger. He lives near Belfast.

Read more about Stuart Neville

11:30am

Saturday, June 4

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