Peter Holloway's novel THE ROARING GAME MURDERS has been nominated for the Best Crime First Novel, sponsored by Melodie Campbell, with a $1000 prize.
Peter is married with two children and has lived in Tsawwassen and Ladner for over thirty years. He has cycled the dikes and backroads around Boundary Bay and the Fraser River, where ‘The Roaring Game Murders’ takes place, as well as the many paths between. An avid curler, he leads Learn-to-Curl sessions for adults to introduce them to the roaring game. He has also coached juniors from recreational after school classes to competitive leagues and bonspiels and has organized a Latino Curling Day for local farm workers the last three years.
Peter has a B.A. in English and History from Trent University, and is a member of the Crime Writers of Canada, Delta Literary Arts Society, B.C. Federation of Writers, and Word Vancouver. After a successful career as a senior manager he retired in 2019 and for the last two and a half years has returned to writing. He is currently working on the second installment of the Boundary Detectives series and plans to publish in 2025.
Marcelle Dubé's story, Chuck Berry is Missing, (published in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, July/Aug 2024 issue) is nominated for Best Crime Novella sponsored by Carrick Publishing with a $200 prize.
Marcelle Dubé writes mystery and speculative fiction novels and short stories. Mostly. She grew up near Montreal. After trying out a number of different provinces and living in the Yukon for over 35 years, she now lives in Alberta—which is much like the Yukon in all the ways that count. Her short fiction has appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies.
She’s won the CWC Award of Excellence twice, in 2021 and 2024, for her short stories, “Cold Wave” and “Reversion.”
The Derrick Murdoch Award is a special achievement award presented at the discretion of the Board Chair of Crime Writers of Canada. It recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to developing crime writing in Canada.
William’s bibliography includes twenty-one novels, many drawing from his extensive legal experience. Notable works include Trial of Passion, which earned the Dashiell Hammett Prize for Literary Excellence in Crime Writing in 1997 and Crime Writers of Canada’s Arthur Ellis Award for Best Canadian Crime Novel in 1998. Trial of Passion introduced readers to Arthur Beauchamp,a character who became central to a series that includes titles such as April Fool which won the 2003 Arthur Ellis award winner) and Stung.
Beyond his writing, he continues to be a pivotal figure in Canadian literature, inspiring readers and mentoring emerging Canadian writers within the crime and mystery genres.
Here is a link to the previous interview with Bill, when we discussed his novel The Long-Shot Trail: Crime Writers of Canada - Podcasts on Crime Writing - William Deverell and The Long-Shot Trial
In this episode, we speak to Jonathan Whitelaw. His book, The Concert Hall Killer, (HarperNorth/HarperCollins Canada) has been shortlisted for The Whodunit Award for Best Traditional Mystery, sponsored by Jane Doe with a $500 prize
Jonathan Whitelaw is a writer, award-winning journalist and broadcaster.
After working on the frontline of Scottish politics, he moved into journalism, covering everything from sports tomusic to radioactive waste – and everything in between.
He's also a regular reviewer, podcaster, panellist, commentator and in the near future, he will be an official Calgarian.
He is the author of The Bingo Hall Detectives series, The Parker Sisters Mysteries,
and if that’s not enough, he moonlights as Max Nightingale and wrote: Murder in
Tinseltown: A Choose-Your-Own-Story Mystery.
You can hear an earlier interview we had with Jonathan about The Concert Hall Killer, on the CWC website: here.
SCOTT THORNLEY grew up in Hamilton, Ontario, which inspired his fictional Dundurn. As president and creative director of Scott Thornley + Company, a strategic creative firm, Thornley worked with cultural and health science clients in Canada, the United States and Great Britain.
Over time, his love of graphic and typographic design grew to include writing the stories that would bring his client’s products and services to life. Scott lives with his wife Shirley Blumberg in Toronto and in the southwest of France.
Middlemen
is the latest in the MacNeice series, and follows Erasing Memory, The Ambitious
City, Raw Bone and Vantage Point.
Scott is
published by House of Anansi Press, and represented by Westwood
Creative Artists.
Kelly Young has a BA in English from the University of Waterloo and worked as a reporter for many years before becoming a swimming instructor. She has since retired.
A member of Crime Writers of Canada and Sisters in Crime, she is the self-published writer of the Travel Writer Cozy Mystery series, the Travel Writer Day Trips Cozy Mystery series, the Haunted & Harassed Paranormal Mystery series, the thrillers Flurries Ending and The Six Thousand, and more. She lives in Southwestern Ontario.
Janice MacDonald is a Canadian author of mystery novels, textbooks, non-fiction titles, and stories for both children and adults. She is best known for writing seven novels featuring amateur sleuth Miranda “Randy” Craig. The Randy Craig Mysteries were the first detective series to be set in Edmonton, Alberta, where Janice lives and works. The last installment, The Eye of the Beholder, was published in October 2018. A lifelong fan and reviewer of mystery fiction, Janice wrote her MA thesis on the genre, long before popular culture studies were popular.
Janice has launched a new series of mysteries following the adventures of retired academic Imogene Durant. The first installment, Victor & Me in Paris, was published in November 2024 by Turnstone Press.
In recent years Janice has also concentrated on literary short fiction, essays, and creative non-fiction. Confederation Drive, a passion project about her trip across Canada on the 50th anniversary of Expo ’67 in Montreal, was released by Edmonton-based Monto Books in 2017.
She is also delighted to have won the Exporting Alberta Award and the Canadian’s Children’s Book Centres seal of approval for The Ghouls’ Night Out, her Hallowe’en chapter book for eager readers.
Called the "Queen of Comedy" by the Toronto Sun, Melodie Campbell was also named the "Canadian literary heir to Donald Westlake" by Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. Winner of 10 awards, including the Derringer and the Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence, she has multiple bestsellers and featured in USA Today. She is the past executive director of Crime Writers of Canada.
Her publications include over 100 comedy credits, 19 novels, and 60 short stories, but she's best known for The Goddaughter mob caper series. In this podcast, we discuss "The Silent Film Star Murders," the second installment in the Merry Widow Murders series, which was recently released by Cormorant Books.
Joanna is an author, podcaster, and illustrator. Her first two novels, The Unravelling and Dealer’s Child, were both Canadian Book Club Awards finalists. Spy Girls, the third novel in the Jade and Sage thriller series, has received Chick Lit Book Cafe's International Book of Excellence Award for best spy thriller and suspense. Joanna's novels have been published under her own imprint, Ozzy Imprint. Joanna draws upon her 13 years of experience working in the prosecutor’s office and 10 years working in the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner for inspiration for her novels. Joanna is the VP of Memberships for the Sinc-CW. Joanna is proud of her podcast SAM Magazine and the many authors she has interviewed and the short stories she has showcased.
See her work at www.joannavandervlugt.com/
Cheryl Freedman is a long-time freelance editor who edits anything she finds interesting, including crime fiction, academic papers, Jewish mysticism books and articles, memoirs, and more. She was the executive director of Crime Writers of Canada for 10 years as well as the sometime-chair of the Bloody Words Mystery Conference and its successor, the Bony Blithe Light Mystery Award/Bony Blithe Mini-Con.
In 2004, she won the Derrick Murdoch Award, a special achievement award from Crime Writers of Canada for contributions to the genre of crime and mystery writing.
With her interest in ferrets, fairy tales, and folklore, she is currently working on a fairy tale mystery series featuring a half-ogre/half-human PI and a bipedal talking, fedora-wearing ferret.