Award-winning author and CWC Chair Winona Kent has written eleven works of long fiction, including five mysteries featuring professional musician/amateur sleuth Jason (Davey) Figgis. Her latest is Bad Boy. She has also written many shorter works, some of which can be found in her anthology, Ten Stories That Worried My Mother.
Writing as K.R. Dodd, Karen’s atmospheric thrillers are set in the beautiful but dark underbellies of Italy and Malta.
Her second novel, Scare Away the Dark, won the 2018 Chanticleer CLUE award. Her latest book is Everybody Knows, a Nicoló Moretti crime thriller. A member of Crime Writers of Canada and past president of the Canada West chapter of Sisters in Crime, she resides near Vancouver.
Marsali Taylor is the author of the Shetland Sailing Mysteries starring quick-witted live-aboard sailor Cass Lynch and her partner DI Gavin Macrae who join forces to investigate crime in Scotland’s northern isles. Readers praise the novels for their clever plotting, lively characters, great action sequences and vivid descriptions of Shetland life and scenery.
Award-winning and USA Today Bestselling author P.D. Workman loves writing about the underdog, who the reader may love or hate. She has been praised for her realistic details, deep characterization, and sensitive handling of the serious social issues that appear in all of her stories, from light cozy mysteries through to darker, grittier young adult and mystery/suspense books.
donalee Moulton is an award-winning freelance journalist. Her first mystery is Hung Out to Die (Spring 2023). Her story “Swan Song” was published in Cold Canadian Crime. She also authored The Thong Principle: Saying What You Mean and Meaning What You Say. donalee lives in Halifax happily surrounded by family, friends, pets, and words of all shapes, sizes, and syllables.
From writing her first suspense story at 8, through her TV debut at 28, to winning Alberta Book of the Year at 58, J.E. (Jayne) Barnard crammed fun and variety into her creative life despite debilitating illness. An author, editor, and longtime awards jurist, she’s sharing insights about how to increase your manuscript’s odds of getting tapped for the spotlight.
Brenda Chapman is one of Canada’s pre-eminent crime fiction writers with over 20 published novels, including the lauded Stonechild and Rouleau police procedurals and the Hunter and Tate mysteries. She is a master at creating sympathetic characters and putting a mirror up to society while ramping up suspense.
Bob and A.J. discuss Five Moves of Doom, the third book in the “Hammerhead” Jed pro-wrestler PI mystery-comedy series, selected for the Top 100 Books of 2022 by The Globe and Mail, winner of the 2022 Crime Fiction Lover Editor’s Choice Award for Best Indie Novel, and finalist for the 2023 Left Coast Crime “Lefty” Award for Best Humorous Mystery.
Erik D’Souza is an author, publisher, and the Social Media & Webinar Coordinator of Crime Writers Canada. His first mystery novel, Death in Halfmoon Bay, is a traditional whodunit in the spirit of Miss Marple. Sequel: Death Takes a Bow.
What if one sunny day you find your neighbour’s body washed up on an islet? Murder or accident? Suspicions and speculations abound as indigenous and non-indigenous locals struggle with each other and the unpredictable environment of the BC coast. A cast of strong women and resourceful men pursue a fitting resolution in Murder Rides A Gales Force Wind.