Jonathan Rudin is the Program Director at Aboriginal Legal Services. He is a lawyer and has appeared before all levels of courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada. Jonathan has written and spoken widely on issues of Indigenous justice. His book, Indigenous People and the Criminal Justice System won the Walter Owen Book Prize from […]
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Giulia De Gasperi was born in Italy and has lived in Canada, Scotland and the USA. She is currently a freelance editor and literary translator working in English and Italian, and curates Collana Canada (Italian translations of Canadian literary works) for an independent Italian publisher. She is a member of the Writers’ Union of Canada, of […]
José Teodoro is the author of several works for the stage including Cloudless, which was recently adapted into an audio drama presented by Canadian Stage and Screen Door, which made its debut in December and was recorded by Applied Silence, José’s music/narrative partnership with Stephen Lyons, and will be released digitally and on vinyl this […]
Roz Nay is the author of four bestselling and acclaimed thrillers: Our Little Secret, which won the Douglas Kennedy Prize for best foreign thriller in France, and was nominated for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Mystery and the Arthur Ellis Best First Novel Award; Hurry Home and The Hunted, which were both shortlisted for […]
Dr. Julius Haag is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. His areas of interest include policing, youth justice, racialization, ethnicity and criminal justice policy. His research draws on urban sociology, critical race theory and cultural criminology to explore the individual and community-level impacts of policing and criminalization […]
Jane Gerster is an independent reporter based in Toronto, whose work has appeared in magazines and newspapers across Canada. She also teaches journalism at Toronto Metropolitan University. Jane is the author of For the Good of the Force, a critical history of the Canadian Mounties forthcoming from McClelland & Stewart (2023).
Norman E. Taylor has been an independent advisor, educator, author and researcher for 40 years, concentrating his practice in the field of policing and public safety for the past 25 years. Between 2008–17, he spent much of his professional life in Saskatchewan as a Senior Advisor to the Deputy Ministry of Justice: Corrections and Policing. […]
Internationally bestselling author Hannah Mary McKinnon was born in the UK, grew up in Switzerland and moved to Canada in 2010. Her suspense novels include The Revenge List, Only One Survives, and A Killer Motive, which is her eleventh book. Her work has been optioned for the screen, and she also writes holiday romantic comedies […]
Amy Stuart is the author of the novels A Death at the Party, which was a #1 bestseller. She is the author of three other bestselling novels—Still Mine, Still Water, and Still Here—which have been optioned for television by Lark/NBC Universal. She is the co-author, with former Toronto Maple Leafs captain Mats Sundin, of Home […]
Elizabeth Renzetti is a bestselling Canadian author and journalist, and the co-author of the Quill & Packet mysteries. Her book What She Said: Conversations About Equality was a national bestseller in 2024. She was a columnist, feature writer, and reporter at the Globe & Mail for many years. In 2020 she won the Landsberg Award […]
Robyn Harding is the bestselling author of Strangers in the Villa, The Haters, The Drowning Woman, The Perfect Family, The Swap, The Arrangement, Her Pretty Face, and The Party. She has also written and executive produced an independent film. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with her family and two cute but deadly rescue chihuahuas.
Robert Rotenberg is the author of several bestselling novels, including Downfall, Old City Hall, The Guilty Plea, Stray Bullets, Stranglehold and Heart of the City. He is a criminal lawyer in Toronto with his firm Rotenberg, Shidlowski, Jesin. He is also a television screenwriter and a writing teacher. Visit him at RobertRotenberg.com or follow him on […]
Paul Palango is a veteran investigative journalist. He started his career at the Hamilton Spectator, his hometown newspaper. In 1977, he joined the Globe and Mail as a reporter, and between 1983 and his resignation in 1990, he served successively as its sports editor, Metro editor, and, eventually, national editor. During his tenure at the […]
Nita Prose is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid series, which has sold over three million copies worldwide. The Maid was a Good Morning America Book Club Pick and won the Ned Kelly Award for International Crim Fiction, the Fingerprint Award for Debut Novel of the Year, and the Anthony Award […]
Nicole Lundrigan is the author of several critically acclaimed novels, including the bestselling A Man Downstairs, as well as An Unthinkable Thing, and Hideaway, which were both shortlisted for the Best Crime Novel Award in Canada. Her work has appeared on “best of” selections from The Globe and Mail, Amazon, Chatelaine, NOW Magazine, and more. […]
Karen Sullivan is founder and Publisher of Orenda Books, an independent publisher based in London, England. Orenda Books publishes literary fiction, with a heavy emphasis on crime/thrillers, with half of the list in translation. Karen was a Bookseller Rising Star, and Orenda Books has been shortlisted for the IPG Best Newcomer Award (twice) and Small […]
Born in Gaspésie, Eric Thibault has covered police and organized crime in Quebec since 1993. He has written for the Journal de Montréal since 2011. Félix Séguin has covered multiple major national and international news stories since the early 2000s. He specializes in police investigations and organized crime. Inside the Montreal Mafia is the third […]
Emily Hepditch is an award-winning author from Mount Pearl, Newfoundland. In 2020, her debut novel, The Woman in the Attic, was published by Flanker Press and quickly became the #1 bestselling book in Newfoundland and Labrador. The book has remained on the Atlantic Books Today top five bestsellers list since its release. Emily’s second thriller, […]
Sarah Weinman is the author of Scoundrel and The Real Lolita and the editor, most recently, of Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit & Obsession. She was a 2020 National Magazine Award finalist for reporting and a Calderwood Journalism Fellow at MacDowell, and her work has appeared in New York magazine, the Wall […]
Courtney Summers is the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of several novels for young adults, including Cracked Up to Be, All the Rage and Sadie. Her work has been released to multiple starred reviews, received numerous awards and honours—including the Edgar Award, John Spray Mystery Award, Cybils Award and Odyssey Award—and has been recognized by […]
Sonya Singh is a former entertainment reporter turned communications professional who has followed her dream of telling stories in front of the camera and now behind the scenes. Her debut novel, Sari, Not Sari, is an ode to her own personal dating experiences, during which she honed the art of writing the perfect break-up email/text. […]
Originally from Alberta, A. M. Todd currently lives in Toronto. Her work has been published in Breath and Shadow, Kaleidoscope, Scare Street and After Dinner Conversation, and her short stories have won Honourable Mention in the Writers of the Future Contest twice. She completed a Ph.D. in English literature at the University of Toronto. City […]
Anu Chouhan is a Punjabi-Canadian illustrator and former mobile game artist from Vancouver, BC. A trained animator and character designer, Anu often combines her love of her cultural heritage, anime and global fashion into her art. She enjoys creating art that celebrates diversity and empowerment.
Mahak Jain writes for young people and adults. Her picture book Maya (illustrated by Elly Mackay) was a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, a CBC Books Best Book of the Year and winner of the 2017 South Asia Book Award. Mahak lives in Toronto, ON.
