In my late forties, I realized that I no longer enjoyed reading novels with twenty-something and thirty-something protagonists. It felt like poking into the heads and hearts of young women who could easily be former students. While searching for novels featuring an older crowd, I discovered several late-blooming authors (Maeve Binchy, Frank McCourt, Louise Penny) […]
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Book Signing This Saturday June 9th:
Toronto Public Library Event
Book Club Discussion of My Books Where: Fort York Branch, Toronto Public Library When: May 15, 2018, 7-8 pm ***Please join me for what I hope will be a fun discussion. Copies of After the Winter and The Au Pair are on hold at this branch. Everyone is welcome.***
Authors With Cats: Meet Kitsy and Charlie
Interview with Canadian Mystery Writer Judy Penz Sheluk
This month I’m interviewing Amazon international bestselling mystery writer, Judy Penz Sheluk. A Canadian, Judy writes two mystery series: the Glass Dolphin Mysteries (The Hanged Man’s Noose; A Hole in One) and the Marketville Mysteries (Skeletons in the Attic). Her short crime fiction appears in several collections. Judy is also an accomplished freelance writer, and […]
Toronto Public Library Coffee and Books discussion
January 17 TPL book club discussion on my books and the uses of the Gothic http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEVT325319&R=EVT325319&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Praise from Kirkus Reviews for The Au Pair:
“An aspiring private investigator uncovers a mystery when she takes a job as an au pair. Ashley Smeeton always dreamed of becoming a sleuth. When she was 9, she witnessed her first investigation when a murder mystery unfolded in her hometown. Now in her mid-20s, she has set up an agency in Montreal, but she […]
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Gothic Suspense
Posted on December 1, 2017 by Joanne Guidoccio I’m happy to welcome Canadian mystery author Anna Dowdall to the Power of 10 series. Today, Anna shares her extensive knowledge of Gothic suspense and her novels, After the Winter and The Au Pair. What the heck is it anyway? Everybody knows this type of story! It […]
Two Book Giveaway
Yes, that time has come. The Au Pair is released today, and to celebrate there’s a giveaway. If you sign up to receive email notifications from this website (my occasional blogs, basically) you’ll be in the running for a prize of two nice trade paperbacks of both my books, After the Winter and its sequel […]
Kirkus Reviews approves: AFTER THE WINTER
The discovery of a secret half sister leads a woman into a web of deception and intrigue in this debut novel. At 23, Sally Ryder finds herself unmoored following a betrayal by an unfaithful fiance. Then an article in a Montreal paper brings news of a sudden loss. Helena Lane, Sally’s half sister, was killed […]