Join author & CWC member Angela Van Breemen for the launch of Past Life’s Revenge on Sunday, August 25th in Orangeville, Ontario.
Thanks to everyone who attended our Annual General Meeting on June 20th; to see your 2024-2025 board of directors, please read more.
On June 15, Crime Writers of Canada -- along with Literacy Central Vancouver Island -- presented an event titled "I Wrote a Book. Now What?"
donalee Moulton's historical novel Conflagration! is a finalist in the 2024 Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense.
Crime Writers of Canada (CWC) is pleased to announce the Winners of the 2024 Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing.
CWC member and bestselling author Helen C. Escott’s five-book Operation Series has been optioned by Rink Rat Productions for film and television.
Left Coast Crime is an annual mystery convention sponsored by mystery fans, both readers and authors. This year, BC-Yukon rep, Winona Kent and CWC member AJ Devlin, co-hosted a Bloody Caesar event in the hotel's bar.
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July 2023 interview / novelist, Shetland (UK)
Marsali Taylor is the author of the Shetland Sailing Mysteries starring quick-witted live-aboard sailor Cass Lynch and her partner DI Gavin Macrae who join forces to investigate crime in Scotland’s northern isles. Readers praise the...
July 18, 2024
Jonathan Whitelaw is a Scottish author, journalist, and broadcaster. He now calls Grand Prairie, Alberta home. His cozy crime novels are a delightful blend of mystery and humour. His unlikely pair of detectives, the jaded ex-newspaper...
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