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Crime Writers of Canada"s Podcast

A bi-weekly podcast by a national professional association for mystery and crime writers in Canada.Crime Writers of Canada (CWC) is a national non-profit organization for Canadian mystery and crime writers, associated professionals, and others with a serious interest in Canadian crime writing. Our mission is to promote Canadian crime writing and to raise the profile of Canadian crime writers with readers, reviewers, librarians, booksellers, and media.Hosted by Erik D"Souza

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21:52

Twist Phelan, Nominated for Best Crime Novella and...

Crime Writers of Canada"s Podcast ·

2025/05/17

Twist Phelan is nominated for two awards in 2025. Her story Aim (featured in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)is on the shortlist for Best Crime Novella sponsored by Carrick Publishing and she is nominated for Best Juvenile / YA Crime Book sponsored by Superior Shores, for her book, Snowed (published by Bronzeville Books). Twist Phelan is the award-winning author of eleven mystery novels, which have been praised by Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Kirkus, and Booklist. She also writes ...

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21:08

Jaima Fixsen, Nominated for The Miller-Martin Award...

Crime Writers of Canada"s Podcast ·

2025/05/17

Jaima Fixsen’s novel The Specimen, (published by Poisoned Pen Press) is nominated for The Miller-Martin Award for Best Crime Novel, sponsored by the Boreal Benefactor with a $1000 prize Jaima Fixsen is a USA Today and International best-selling author living and writing in Edmonton, Alberta. Her novel, The Girl In His Shadow (co-authored under the pen name Audrey Blake), was selected as Libby’s 2022 Big Library Read. Her books have been translated in eight languages. Jaima studied Occup...

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14:42

Raye Anderson, Nominated for Best The Whodunit Award...

Crime Writers of Canada"s Podcast ·

2025/05/15

Raye Anderson's novel, The Dead Shall Inherit, (published by Signature Editions) was nominated for The Whodunit Award for Best Traditional Mystery sponsored by Jane Doe with a $500 prize. Raye Anderson is a Scots Canadian who taught Drama and ran Theatre and Community arts programs for many years, notably at Prairie Theatre Exchange in Winnipeg, in Ottawa and Calgary. Raye has been a resident of the Interlake since 2007 and presently lives in Gimli. Her first crime fiction novel, And We Shall...

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14:30

Suzan Denoncourt, Nominated for Best Crime First Novel

Crime Writers of Canada"s Podcast ·

2025/05/14

Suzan Denoncourt’s novel, The Burden of Truth, (published by Suzan Denoncourt) was nominated for Best Crime First Novel, sponsored by Melodie Campbell with a $1000 prize. It was at the height of her career as a business executive that Suzan chose to pivot away from the corporate world and embrace a totally new chapter. Literally. Gravitating toward mystery/suspense/crime fiction, she completed the first two manuscripts in the Cisco series before pursuing publication of her debut novel, The Bu...

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26:30

Jim McDonald, Nominated for Best Crime First Novel

Crime Writers of Canada"s Podcast ·

2025/05/14

Jim McDonald has been judged a finalist for the prestigious Crime Writers of Canada Best Crime First Novel, sponsored by Melodie Campbell with a $1000 prize for his noir psychological thriller Altered Boy, available on Amazon Kindle. The winner will be announced on May 30, 2025. Also on Kindle: Smash Palace, a collection of 32 short stories. Coming in 2026, his historical novel Counterculture Revolution, set in 1970, is about the anti-war activist group The Weathermen. Alter...

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23:38

Cathy Ace, Nominated for The Whodunit Award for Best...

Crime Writers of Canada"s Podcast ·

2025/05/12

Cathy Ace’s novel, The Corpse with the Pearly Smile, (published by Four Tails Publishing Ltd.) has been nominated for The Whodunit Award for Best Traditional Mystery sponsored by Jane Doe with a $500 prize. Ace’s Cait Morgan Mysteries feature a globetrotting Welsh Canadian criminal psychologist who solves traditional whodunits alongside her retired-cop husband, Bud Anderson (Eve Myles will portray Cait in the TV production by Free@LastTV). Her WISE Enquiries Agency Mysteries feature four soft...

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23:45

Melissa Yi, Nominated for Best Crime Short Story and...

Crime Writers of Canada"s Podcast ·

2025/05/09

Melissa Yi is nominated for Best Crime Short Story and Best Juvenile / YA Crime Book sponsored by Superior Shores Press. Melissa could slice your throat and sew it back up again. Legally. Because she’s an emergency doctor. In her spare minutes, Melissa writes the Hope Sze medical crime series, which Ellery Queen praised for its “nitty-gritty” description and Publishers Weekly for its “darker themes … entertaining and insightful.” The Globe and Mail praises her as a “standout,” hav...

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14:56

Brenda Chapman, Shortlisted for Best Crime Novel Set...

Crime Writers of Canada"s Podcast ·

2025/05/07

Brenda Chapman is a Canadian crime fiction author with twenty-six published novels. In addition to short stories and standalones, she has written the lauded Stonechild and Rouleau police procedural series, the Anna Sweet mystery novellas, and the Jennifer Bannon mysteries for middle grade. Her work has been shortlisted for several awards including four Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence. She is currently writing a new mystery series set in Ottawa called the Hunter and Tate mysteries...

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14:39

Greg Rhyno, Nominated for Best Crime Novel Set in Canada

Crime Writers of Canada"s Podcast ·

2025/05/06

Greg Rhyno is the author of the Dame Polara mystery series from Cormorant Books, including Who by Fire, which was nominated for a Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence. His debut novel, To Me You Seem Giant (NeWest Press), was nominated for a ReLit Award and an Alberta Book Publishing Award. He completed an MFA at the University of Guelph and lives with his family in Guelph, Ontario. Learn more about Crime Writers of Canada at: crimewriterscanada.com Find past video interviews at: youtu...

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13:29

Peter Holloway, Shortlisted for Best Crime First Novel

Crime Writers of Canada"s Podcast ·

2025/05/02

Peter Holloway's novel THE ROARING GAME MURDERS has been nominated for the Best Crime First Novel, sponsored by Melodie Campbell, with a $1000 prize. Peter is married with two children and has lived in Tsawwassen and Ladner for over thirty years. He has cycled the dikes and backroads around Boundary Bay and the Fraser River, where ‘The Roaring Game Murders’ takes place, as well as the many paths between. An avid curler, he leads Learn-to-Curl sessions for adults to introduce them to the roari...

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14:04

Marcelle Dubé, Nominated for Best Crime Novella...

Crime Writers of Canada"s Podcast ·

2025/05/01

Marcelle Dubé's story, Chuck Berry is Missing, (published in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, July/Aug 2024 issue) is nominated for Best Crime Novella sponsored by Carrick Publishing with a $200 prize. Marcelle Dubé writes mystery and speculative fiction novels and short stories. Mostly. She grew up near Montreal. After trying out a number of different provinces and living in the Yukon for over 35 years, she now lives in Alberta—which is much like the Yukon in all the ways that count. Her...

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31:56

William Deverell, The 2025 Derrick Murdoch Award...

Crime Writers of Canada"s Podcast ·

2025/04/30

The Derrick Murdoch Award is a special achievement award presented at the discretion of the Board Chair of Crime Writers of Canada. It recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to developing crime writing in Canada. William’s bibliography includes twenty-one novels, many drawing from his extensive legal experience. Notable works include Trial of Passion, which earned the Dashiell Hammett Prize for Literary Excellence in Crime Writing in 1997 and Crime Writers of Canada’s ...

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19:41

2025 Awards of Excellence Nominee: Jonathan Whitelaw

Crime Writers of Canada"s Podcast ·

2025/04/29

In this episode, we speak to Jonathan Whitelaw. His book, The Concert Hall Killer, (HarperNorth/HarperCollins Canada) has been shortlisted for The Whodunit Award for Best Traditional Mystery, sponsored by Jane Doe with a $500 prize Jonathan Whitelaw is a writer, award-winning journalist and broadcaster. After working on the frontline of Scottish politics, he moved into journalism, covering everything from sports tomusic to radioactive waste – and everything in between. He's also a...

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23:14

Scott Thornley, Middlemen

Crime Writers of Canada"s Podcast ·

2025/04/25

SCOTT THORNLEY grew up in Hamilton, Ontario, which inspired his fictional Dundurn. As president and creative director of Scott Thornley + Company, a strategic creative firm, Thornley worked with cultural and health science clients in Canada, the United States and Great Britain. Over time, his love of graphic and typographic design grew to include writing the stories that would bring his client’s products and services to life. Scott lives with his wife Shirley Blumberg in Toronto and in the so...

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15:46

Kelly Young, Streets Alive on Overdrive

Crime Writers of Canada"s Podcast ·

2025/04/17

Kelly Young has a BA in English from the University of Waterloo and worked as a reporter for many years before becoming a swimming instructor. She has since retired. A member of Crime Writers of Canada and Sisters in Crime, she is the self-published writer of the Travel Writer Cozy Mystery series, the Travel Writer Day Trips Cozy Mystery series, the Haunted & Harassed Paranormal Mystery series, the thrillers Flurries Ending and The Six Thousand, and more. She lives in Southwestern Ontario...

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21:21

Janice MacDonald, Victor & Me in Paris

Crime Writers of Canada"s Podcast ·

2025/04/10

Janice MacDonald is a Canadian author of mystery novels, textbooks, non-fiction titles, and stories for both children and adults. She is best known for writing seven novels featuring amateur sleuth Miranda “Randy” Craig. The Randy Craig Mysteries were the first detective series to be set in Edmonton, Alberta, where Janice lives and works. The last installment, The Eye of the Beholder, was published in October 2018. A lifelong fan and reviewer of mystery fiction, Janice wrote her MA thesis on ...

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21:27

Melodie Campbell, The Silent Film Star Murders

Crime Writers of Canada"s Podcast ·

2025/03/31

Called the “Queen of Comedy" by the Toronto Sun, Melodie Campbell was also named the “Canadian literary heir to Donald Westlake” by Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. Winner of 10 awards, including the Derringer and the Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence, she has multiple bestsellers and has been featured in USA Today. She is the past executive director of Crime Writers of Canada. Her publications include over 100 comedy credits, 19 novels, and 60 short stories, but she’s bes...

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24:58

Joanna Vander Vlugt, Spy Girls

Crime Writers of Canada"s Podcast ·

2025/03/20

Joanna is an author, podcaster, and illustrator. her debut novel, The Unravelling, and her second novel in the Dealer’s Child were both Canadian Book Club Awards finalists, and now Spy Girls, the third novel in the Jade and Sage thriller series, has received Chick Lit Book Cafe's International Book of Excellence Award for best spy thriller and suspense. Joanna's novels have been published under her own imprint, Ozzy Imprint. Joanna draws upon her 13 years of experience working in ...

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21:50

Cheryl Freedman and The Bony Blithe Mini-Con

Crime Writers of Canada"s Podcast ·

2025/03/05

Cheryl Freedman is a long-time freelance editor who edits anything she finds interesting, including crime fiction, academic papers, Jewish mysticism books and articles, memoirs, and more. She was the executive director of Crime Writers of Canada for 10 years as well as the sometime-chair of the Bloody Words Mystery Conference and its successor, the Bony Blithe Light Mystery Award/Bony Blithe Mini-Con. In 2004 she won theDerrick Murdoch Award a special achievement award from Crime Writers of C...

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19:08

Robert Rotenberg, One Minute More

Crime Writers of Canada"s Podcast ·

2025/02/27

Robert Rotenberg is a crime author and criminal defense lawyer, recognized for his legal thrillers, many of which are set in Toronto. His debut novel, "Old City Hall," was published in 2009 and became an international bestseller. Since then, he has written seven additional novels in the Ari Green detective series. Additionally, Rotenberg is a screenwriter who has contributed to several episodes of "Murdoch Mysteries." In this podcast, we will discuss his latest novel, "One Minute More." Learn...

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