SCENE OF THE CRIME with John Lawton, Brenda Chapman, Joy Fielding and Linwood Barclay

Hosted by Barbara Fradkin

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Apr , 2016

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SCENE OF THE CRIME with John Lawton, Brenda Chapman, Joy Fielding and Linwood Barclay

You can bet that Barclay—an international bestseller who counts Stephen King as a fan—will deliver the thrills.

Ottawa Citizen

Join us for an evening of murder, mayhem, and intrigue. The one common thread in the work of these four celebrated authors is an almost supernatural ability to keep the pages turning. We’ll sample the books and participate in a conversation on the alchemy of plot, setting and character that makes their fiction so compelling.

The U.K.’s John Lawton joins us with his latest, The Unfortunate Englishman. Set in Berlin in 1963, it is a thrilling tale of Khrushchev, Kennedy, a spy exchange . . . and ten thousand bottles of fine Bordeaux. What can possibly go wrong?

Ottawa’s Brenda Chapman, Arthur Ellis Award nominee for Cold Mourning, delivers the latest Stonechild and Rouleau Mystery, Tumbled Graves. A missing child. A dead mother. Kala Stonechild is about to discover what one betrayal can lead to.

From Joy Fielding, the New York Times bestselling author of Someone Is Watching comes She's Not There, a novel of psychological suspense about a woman whose life takes a shocking turn when a young girl contacts her, claiming to be her daughter who was kidnapped in Mexico years earlier.

New York Times and #1 international bestselling author Linwood Barclay, the Canadian king of suspense, delivers Far From True, the second spine-chilling thriller set in the troubled town of Promise Falls.

Books available for purchase at every event: Proceeds support our free children’s literacy programs.

The Authors

Brenda Chapman

Brenda Chapman began her writing career in children’s fiction. Her YA novel Hiding in Hawk’s Creek was shortlisted for the CLA Book of the Year for Children. The first Stonechild and Rouleau novel, Cold Mourning, was nominated for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel, 2015. She lives in Ottawa, Ontario.

John Lawton

John Lawton is a producer/director in television who has spent much of his time interpreting the USA to the English, and occasionally vice versa. He has worked with Gore Vidal, Neil Simon, Scott Turow, Noam Chomsky, Fay Weldon, Harold Pinter and Kathy Acker. He thinks he may well be the only TV director ever to be named in a Parliamentary Bill in the British House of Lords as an offender against taste and balance – he has also been denounced from the pulpit in Mississippi as a `Communist', but thinks that less remarkable. He spent most of the 90s in New York – among other things attending the writers' sessions at The Actors' Studio under Norman Mailer – and has visited or worked in more than half the 50 states – since 2000 he has lived in the high, wet hills of Derbyshire England, with frequent excursions into the high, dry hills of Arizona and Italy. He is the author of 1963, a social and political history of the Kennedy-Macmillan years, six thrillers in the Troy series and a stand-alone novel, Sweet Sunday. In 1995 the first Troy novel, Black Out, won the WH Smith Fresh Talent Award. In 2006 Columbia Pictures bought the fourth Troy novel Riptide. In 2007 A Little White Deathwas a New York Times noteable. In 2008 he was one of only half a dozen living English writers to be named in the London Daily Telegraph's `50 Crime Writers to Read before You Die.' He has also edited the poetry of DH Lawrence and the stories of Joseph Conrad. He is devoted to the work of Franz Schubert, Cormac McCarthy, Art Tatum, and Barbara Gowdy.

Joy Fielding

Joy Fielding is the New York Times bestselling author of Someone Is Watching, Now You See Her, Still Life, Mad River Road, See Jane Run, and other acclaimed novels. She divides her time between Toronto and Palm Beach, Florida.

Linwood Barclay

Linwood Barclay is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty previous novels, and two thrillers for children. His books have been translated into more than two dozen languages. He wrote the screenplay adaptation for his novel Never Saw it Coming and his book The Accident has been made into a TV series in France. His novel No Time for Goodbye was a global bestseller. A native of Connecticut, he now lives in Toronto with his wife, Neetha.