There should be a word for the specific pleasure one receives from racing through a novel, impatiently looking for the next clue, devouring each page while not wanting the story to end. While we think of one (tell us your suggestions), let’s spend an evening with three writers who do just this: write clues like no other. Sarah Henstra’s eponymous The Lost Tarot is key to unraveling decades of secrets in a novel of art and deception. Tom Ryan’s The Treasure Hunters Club offers a rollicking mystery about a secret society, nautical charts, and a treasure to die for. Stephanie Wrobel’s latest, The Hitchcock Hotel, is a dark, suspenseful novel in which a reunion with members of an Alfred Hitchcock film club goes wrong. Just how do they do it? Find out tonight. Moderated by Robert J. Wiersema.
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SARAH HENSTRA is the author of The Red Word, which won the 2018 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction and was nominated for the Dublin International Literary Award. She is also author of the young adult novels Mad Miss Mimic, a CLA Best Book for Teens and a finalist for the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People, and We Contain Multitudes, which was the 2022 "Vermont Reads" program title and was nominated for the White Pine Award. Sarah has a PhD in English and is a professor at Toronto Metropolitan University.
TOM RYAN is an award-winning author, screen writer, and producer. His YA mystery Keep This to Yourself was the winner of the 2020 ITW Thriller Award for Best Young Adult Novel, the 2020 Arthur Ellis Award for Best YA Crime Book, and the 2021 Ann Connor Brimer Award, and is currently being adapted for television. His follow-up YA mystery, I Hope You’re Listening, was the winner of the 2021 Lambda “Lammy” Award for Best LGBTQ Mystery. He was a 2017 Lambda Literary Fellow in Young Adult Fiction. Tom, his husband, and their dog live in Nova Scotia.
ROBERT J. WIERSEMA is the author of three novels, a novella, a collection of short stories, and a book of nonfiction. He is one of Canada’s most recognized and respected book reviewers, with his work appearing regularly in The Toronto Star, Quill & Quire, The Globe and Mail, National Post, and numerous other publications. Wiersema lives in Victoria where he is a professor of creative writing at Vancouver Island University. (BRITISH COLUMBIA)
STEPHANIE WROBEL is the author of Darling Rose Gold, a USA TODAY and international bestseller that has sold in twenty-one countries and was shortlisted for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. Wrobel grew up in Chicago and now lives in London. She is also the author of This Might Hurt. The Hitchcock Hotel is her latest novel.
