READING/INTERVIEW: Laura Lippman & Linden MacIntyre

Bert Archer is a writer for the Toronto Star, Toronto Life, Yonge Street Media and the Toronto Standard. He was a full-time book reviewer and literary journalist in Canada and the USA for the better part of a decade. He has written one book and contributed to half a dozen others.

Former Baltimore Sun reporter Laura Lippman , has won the Edgar Award, Anthony Award, Agatha Award, Nero Wolfe Award, Shamus Award and Quill Award. Her New York Times bestseller What the Dead Know was chosen as one of the best books of the year by critics at the New York Times, Washington Post and Publishers Weekly, among other publications. Based on her multi-award-nominated short story “Scratch a Woman” Lippman presents And When She Was Good, which follows a suburban madam and a convicted killer as they engage in an emotional fight to keep the child they both love.

Linden MacIntyre is one of Canada’s most distinguished broadcast journalists. The winner of nine Gemini Awards, he is the co-host of CBC Television’s the fifth estate and has been involved in the production of documentaries and stories from all over the world. His novel, The Bishop’s Man, won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Dartmouth Book Award and the CBA Libris Award. MacIntyre’s final instalment of the Cape Breton trilogy, Why Men Lie, follows Effie, a twice-divorced Celtic studies professor, as she begins a relationship with a man she hopes will be different from the others she has known.