Jonathan Whitelaw is a Scottish author, journalist, and broadcaster. He now calls Grand Prairie, Alberta home. His cozy crime novels are a delightful blend of mystery and humour. His unlikely pair of detectives, the jaded ex-newspaper journalist Jason Brazel, and his bingo-playing mother-in-law, Amita Khatri, add a unique charm to the series. Starting with "The Bingo Hall Detectives" in 2022 and continuing with "The Village Hall Vendetta" and "The Concert Hall Killer", Jonathan's books are a must-read for those who enjoy a good laugh with their mysteries.
Raye Anderson is a Scots Canadian who taught Drama and ran Theatre and Community arts programs for many years, notably at Prairie Theatre Exchange in Winnipeg, in Ottawa and Calgary.
Raye has been a resident of the Interlake since 2007 and presently lives in Gimli. Her first crime fiction novel, And We Shall Have Snow, was published by Signature Editions in 2020. It was a finalist for Best First Novel for the Crime Writers of Canada, Awards of Excellence and was also shortlisted in the Original Softcover Fiction category of the WILLA Literary Awards.
The second book in the series, which features Sergeant Roxanne Calloway of the RCMP, occurs mostly in Winnipeg, in a fictional theatre company. Titled And Then Is Heard No More, it was published in 2021, and was the Winnipeg Free Press/McNally Robinson Book Club pick for July/August of 2022.
Raye returned to the Interlake as the setting for her third and fourth books, Down Came The Rain and Sing a Song of Summer
She is currently working on a new crime novel, set in the Scottish Hebbrides, which is scheduled for release in the fall of 2024.
Delvin Chatterson is the internationally acclaimed author of the Dale Hunter Thriller Series, an explosive mix of crime and corruption in the computer business of the 1980s. Dale Hunter and his buddy, Frank the Fixer, were introduced in 2018 with NO EASY MONEY, followed by SIMPLY THE BEST, and MERGER MANIAC and most recently BAD BOYS IN BOSTON
As a former entrepreneur, business advisor, and cheerleader for enlightened entrepreneurship, Del has written extensively on business topics for decades and continues to write on entrepreneurship under the pen name of Your Uncle Ralph. Originally from the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, Del has lived and worked for most of the last fifty years in the fascinating French-Canadian city of Montreal.
Del is the International Regional Rep of the CWC.
Visit him at delvinchatterson.com
William Deverell is a Canadian novelist, activist, and criminal lawyer. He is one of Canada’s best-known novelists, whose first book, Needles, which drew on his experiences as a criminal lawyer, won the McClelland & Stewart $50,000 Seal Award. In 1997, he won the Dashiell Hammett Prize for literary excellence in crime writing in North America for Trial of Passion. That book won the 1998 Arthur Ellis Award for best Canadian crime novel, as did April Fool in 2003. Trial of Passion launched his first crime series, featuring the classically trained, self-doubting Arthur Beauchamp. This interview discusses the ninth addition to the series, The Long-Shot Trial.
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Marcelle Dubé writes mystery and speculative fiction novels and short stories. She grew up near Montreal, lived in the Yukon for 35 years and now calls Alberta home. Her short fiction has appeared in several magazines and anthologies. In 2021, she won the CWC award for Best Short Story. Her story, Reversion, published in April 2023 edition of Mystery Magazine has been nominated once again for an Award of Excellence in the Short story category, and was shortlisted for a Deringer Award.
Learn more about Marcelle at: marcelledube.com/
2022 interview with Marcelle Dubé: https://youtu.be/v1JBTJ0FA6U
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Melissa Yi’s novel, Shapes of Wrath, was nominated for The Howard Engel Award for Best Crime Novel Set in Canada sponsored by Charlotte Engel and CWC.
Melissa Yi, also known as Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes, is an emergency physician with an active practice and an award-winning writing career. She is a Derringer Award winning author and was a CWC Award of Excellence Finalist in 2022.
She studied emergency medicine at McGill University in Montreal. She was so shocked by the patients crammed into the waiting area, and the examining rooms without running water, that she began to contemplate murder. And so, she created Dr. Hope Sze, the resident who could save lives and fight crime.
Learn more at: melissayuaninnes.com/
Previous interview from 2022: https://youtu.be/dvMlOmr0qPw
Learn more about Crime Writers of Canada at: crimewriterscanada.com
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Thirty Feet Under, a novel by William Woodhams was nominated for The Award for Best Unpublished Manuscript.
Bill lives in Burlington, Ontario. He is an author and award-winning copywriter who has been inspiring people with the life-changing possibilities of cell phones, hamburgers and drywall for over twenty years.
His stories have been published in The Globe and Mail, Canada’s National Newspaper, the Pigeon Review Art and Literary Journal, and recognized in Writer’s Digest 2021 Writing Competition.
William went back to university as a senior student and recently graduated with a degree in English and Cultural Studies. It was during an Art History class that he got the inspiration for Thirty Feet Under.
Learn more about Bill at: williamwodhams.com/
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JUKEBOX EMPIRE, by David Rabinovitch is nominated for The Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book sponsored by David Reid Simpson Law Firm (Hamilton).
David Rabinovitch is an EMMY, Peabody, and Gemini Award-winning film maker. With a background in investigative journalism, he has testified before Congress, documented human rights abuses in China, exposed exploitation of victims of a mass disaster, and contributed to Frontline, Dateline, and Investigative Reports. He has written for the Toronto Globe & Mail, San Francisco Chronicle, TIME Magazine, and U.S. News & World Report. He was raised in the prairie town of Morden, Manitoba, where his uncle Wolfe Rabin’s exploits remain a subject of myth and lore. He divides his time between the Pacific Northwest and Baja California.
Jukebox Empire is the true story of Wolfe Rabin, who designed an icon of popular culture and made and lost a fortune four times over. The son of Jewish immigrants to the Canadian prairies, Wolfe Rabin built a jukebox empire with the backing of the Mob, and having sold his soul to the devil, masterminded the largest money-laundering scheme in history to finance running guns to Cuba.
It is the inside story of the jukebox in 1940’s Chicago, casinos in 1950’s Havana, and one man’s journey into the dark side of the American dream.
Learn more at: https://jukeboxempire.com/
Previous interview with David: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2232876/13804420
Link to the article referenced in the interview: https://jukeboxempire.com/2024/05/08/jukebox-empire-article-in-pacific-sun/
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Sheilla Jones and James Burns' story, Murder on Richmond Road: An Enquiry Bureau Mystery, is nominated for The Award for Best Unpublished Manuscript.
Sheila Jones is an award-winning journalist and best-selling science author. James Burns is an award-winning author and an editor of Prairie History and curator Emeritus of paleontology at the Royal Alberta Museum.
Website: http://www.sheillajones.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sheilla.jones.7
M.H. Callway’s story, Wisteria Cottage, Published in Malice Domestic is nominated for Best Crime Short Story.
M. H. Callway’s crime fiction has won or been short-listed for several leading awards including the Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence, the Debut Dagger, and the Derringer. Her thriller, Windigo Fire (Seraphim Editions), was a finalist for the CWC Best First Novel Award. In 2013, she and Donna Carrick of Carrick Publishing co-founded the Mesdames and Messieurs of Mayhem, a collective of established Canadian crime writers. They are the subject of the critically acclaimed CBC documentary, The Mesdames of Mayhem, which you may view on CBC GEM or YouTube.
Previous interview with M.H. Callway: https://youtu.be/kmZGXdpsYmE
CBC feature on Mesdames of Mayhem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4dxvaLCVBE
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