Fans of intricately twisting plots and high-stakes suspense will not want to miss this year’s crime and thriller fiction event, featuring three page-turners from acclaimed authors. Terry Fallis’s tenth novel, The Marionette, introduces readers to a new hero: a thriller writer whose life takes an unexpected turn into the perilous world of espionage with Canada’s Security Intelligence Service. The Tiger and the Cosmonaut by Eddy Boudel Tan is equal parts nail-biting mystery, and tender portrait of immigrant family relationships. Jonathan Lethem traces more than fifty years of one neighborhood’s community, crime, and gentrification in Brooklyn Crime Novel, named a best book of the year by multiple publications. The panelists will discuss the craft of suspense, and how they keep readers on the edge of their seats. Moderated by Robert J. Wiersema.
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TERRY FALLIS, a Toronto native and McMaster engineering graduate, is a celebrated author. His debut novel, The Best Laid Plans, won the Stephen Leacock Medal and CBC’s Canada Reads. Other notable works include No Relation, Poles Apart, and Albatross. He blogs at terryfallis.com.
JONATHAN LETHEM is the bestselling author of thirteen novels, including Motherless Brooklyn, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. His short fiction has garnered a Pushcart Prize, a World Fantasy Award, and inclusion in The Best American Short Stories. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship, he lives in Los Angeles and Maine.
EDDY BOUDEL TAN has been a finalist for the Edmund White Award, the ReLit Best Novel Award, and the Ferro-Grumley Award for his novels After Elias and The Rebellious Tide. He was named a Rising Star by Writers’ Trust of Canada in 2021. His short stories can be found in Joyland, Yolk, and various literary journals and anthologies.
The author of six books, including the novels Before I Wake, Bedtime Story, and Black Feathers, Robert J. Wiersema is also one of Canada's foremost literary reviewers, and teaches creative writing at Vancouver Island University. He lives in Victoria.
