mystery
(Fictionally) Stolen from the CSIS Files…
Sam Montcalm has hit the shelves in his first case with Dundurn Press. Nightshade officially published less than a week ago! (You guys might remember how we featured Tom’s true-to-life murder investigation as quasi-tribute to its release.) As Sam moves across the country from the Dundurn stage, wouldn’t it be great to get a closer [...]
Q&A with Lee Lamothe, author of Free Form Jazz
Tell us about your book.
People doing what people do.
How did you come up with the idea for this work?
Someone told me about cops doing surveillance on a camper van and, ahead on the road, it exploded because it was a drug lab on wheels.
How did you come up with the title?
I think most of what [...]
The Death Ship: Tom Henighan Plays Detective
Tom Henighan has published many titles for Dundurn, but his first foray into the adult mystery genre, Nightshade, has just hit the shelves. Tom has certainly drawn on his personal insights to create many of his characters and develop his stories… and well, the fact that he helped investigate a real murder would be great [...]
Q&A with Tom Henighan, author of Nightshade
Tell us about your forthcoming novel.
My first two attempts at fiction were mystery novels, one of them based on a real murder I investigated in the British colony of Aden (now Yemen), the other set in the north of England, where I lived and studied for several years. Later, as a university professor, I taught [...]
The Bishop, in the Green Room, with the candlestick
I love a good mystery. Not so much the ‘where did I put that claim form I NEED to send off today?’ kind, but your garden variety crime thriller. On a sunny summer weekend, in the hammock, with a cold beverage nearby (yes, it is a balancing act), there’s almost nothing better than a spicy [...]
Dressing Up An Old Friend
Last week, along with mystery writer Vicki Delany, I was a guest of the Public Library in Picton, Ontario. I read two scenes from my recently completed manuscript, Black Tupelo. The audience was relaxed and conversational, and one of the questions I was asked during the Q&A was “What are you working on now?” I [...]
An Ellis Nomination for Maureen Jennings!
Like many people who now work for a publishing company one of my first jobs in the field was working at a bookstore. In my case it was the independent mystery bookstore Prime Crime Books in Ottawa. With its cozy living room feel, Sam – Prime Crime’s skeleton mascot – in the front window, the [...]
