AUTHORS: Crime Showcase

A native of Dublin, John Brady (Canada/Ireland) is the author of the Arthur Ellis Award-winning Inspector Matt Minogue series and the Dashiell Hammett Prize-shortlisted novel Islandbridge. Brady presents The Coast Road, the most recent instalment in the Minogue series, a murder mystery surrounding the death of a homeless man well-known in his community.

Ian Hamilton has been a journalist, a diplomat, a businessman and a senior executive with the Canadian federal government. He is the author of the Ava Lee series, which follows a young Chinese-Canadian forensic accountant who specializes in recovering massive debts that aren’t likely to be recovered through traditional methods. The first in the series, The Water Rat of Wanchai, won several awards including the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel and an Amazon.ca Top 100 Book of the Year. Hamilton presents the fifth book in the series, The Scottish Banker of Surabaya, which exposes the dark world of money laundering and the Italian mob.

Matt Lennox first pursued a military career, becoming a captain in the Canadian army, where he was posted to Afghanistan between 2008 and 2009. While there, he wrote many of the stories in his first short story collection, Men of Salt, Men of Earth, shortlisted for the 2010 ReLit Award. He lives in Toronto and is completing his MFA at Guelph-Humber. Lennox's debut novel, The Carpenter, explores the back alleys and dark corners of small-town life and of the human heart.

Andrew Pyper is the award-winning author of five internationally bestselling novels. Lost Girls won the Arthur Ellis Award, was selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 2000, and appeared on the New York Times and Times (UK) bestseller lists. The Killing Circle was a New York Times Best Crime Novel of the Year. In Pyper’s latest novel The Demonologist, a Columbia professor must use his knowledge of demonic mythology to rescue his daughter from the Underworld.

David Rotenberg has published five mysteries set in modern China as well as the Canadian bestselling historical fiction novel, Shanghai. He is the artistic director of the internationally renowned Professional Actors Lab. He has directed on Broadway, in South Africa, in major regional theatres in North America and for television. He directed the first Canadian play staged in the Peoples Republic of China, in Mandarin. He lives in Toronto. Rotenberg presents The Placebo Effect, the first book in the Junction Chronicles.

A former crime reporter, actor, improv artist, and corporate writer, Howard Shrier is Canada’s first-ever winner of Arthur Ellis Awards for Best First Novel for Buffalo Jump and Best Novel for High Chicago in consecutive years. His first e-book, the standalone thriller Lostport, debuted in 2011. Howard lives in Toronto with his family. Shrier presents Boston Cream, the third book featuring Toronto investigator Jonah Geller.

David Fine is not the kind of guy to go missing. Or so his father tells Private Investigator Jonah Geller. A brilliant young surgeon-in-training, David was last seen leaving the Boston hospital where he worked. Still recovering from a concussion, Jonah and his partner Jenn find out that David fled for his life after a vicious Irish crime boss tried to abduct him. When Jenn joins the ranks of the missing, Jonah seeks help from former hit man Dante Ryan and two local wise guys as he races the clock to save her life, one step ahead of the Boston law.

In a town rife with secrets and an undercurrent of criminal behaviour, Lee King, the carpenter, returns after a lengthy stay in maximum-security prison. But things are still not quite right in the town as Stan Maitland, the retired cop, knows. Not only does he remember Lee’s unexplained violence from years before, he is also caught up in a mysterious new death. At the same time, Lee wonders if he will ever understand where his violent streak comes from. When Lee finally faces who he is, the lives of his family are once again overturned.

A well-known fixture in the community, Patrick Larkin, a homeless, alcoholic and mentally ill man, is beaten to death in a park. Months pass and the case goes cold, but indignation rises and Inspector Minogue and his partner Tommy Malone, are brought onto the case. Did Larkin die because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time? Was he an unwitting witness to a drug deal? When someone peripheral to the case also turns up dead, Minogue senses that the past is gaining on the present.

Acting-teacher Decker Roberts has the dangerous gift of detecting the truth. For years this talent proved to be a lucrative sideline to his teaching with corporations paying top-dollar for Decker’s services but his carefully compartmentalized life eventually starts to fall apart and Decker must go on the run in order to figure out why he’s been targeted.

Uncle and Ava Lee are summoned by Wong Changxing, "The Emperor of Hubei" and one of the most powerful men in China, when he discovers that the Fauvist paintings he recently acquired are in fact forgeries. Ava uncovers a ring of fraudulent art dealers and follows their twisted trail to Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Dublin, London, and New York. But the job is further complicated by Wong's second wife who threatens to interfere in Ava's investigation.