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Crooks and Crimes: Detectives in Mystery Fiction

Fraser River Literary Festival

Step into the world of mystery with local authors Cathy Ace, Iona Whishaw, and Sam Wiebe. Discover their popular detective series, hear about their writing process, and stay for a Q&A.

Calling all mystery readers and writers! Join local authors Cathy Ace, Iona Whishaw, and Sam Wiebe for an engaging panel discussion about their award winning detective series, each featuring distinctive worlds and unforgettable lead characters. Learn about their approach to crafting compelling mysteries, then stay for a question and answer session where you can ask the authors about their books and writing process. With acclaimed, twist filled novels and years of storytelling experience, this is a mystery event you won't want to miss.

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For more information about this Fraser River Literary Festival event, email ask@coqlibrary.ca. 

Special for this night! Afterhours at the Library

Time: 5:00-7:00 pm

Here for one night only, local bookstore Western Sky books will be set up with festival authors for sale, so get your books! In addition, the local eatery Beanery Coffeehouse & Eatery will be on site selling delicious sandwiches and treats (optional purchases, not included with registration). 

Dinner, entertainment, and books, sorted!

Cathy Ace’s Cait Morgan Mysteries feature a globetrotting Welsh Canadian criminal psychologist who solves traditional whodunits alongside her retired-cop husband, Bud Anderson (the TV production of the series is being developed by Free@LastTV). Her WISE Enquiries Agency Mysteries feature four softly-poached female PIs solving cosy cases from a Welsh stately home. Shortlisted for Canada’s Bony Blithe Award three times, winning once, Cathy’s also won IPPY and IBA Awards, as well as the CrimeFictionLover Editor’s Choice Award for Best Indie Novel. She’s been shortlisted for Crime Writers of Canada Awards three times, migrated from Wales aged 40, and lives in Maple Ridge. Find her on https://www.cathyace.com/ 

Iona Whishaw is the 2026 Crime Writers of Canada Best Traditional Mystery Award–winning author of the Globe and Mail bestselling Lane Winslow Mysteries. She’s been a three-time finalist for the BC and Yukon Book Prizes and two-time nominee for the Left Coast Crime Awards. The heroine of her series, Lane Winslow, was inspired by Iona’s mother, who, like her father before her, was a wartime spy. Born in the Kootenays, Iona spent many years in Mexico, Nicaragua, and the United States before settling in Vancouver, BC, where she now lives with her husband, Terry. 

Sam Weibe is an award-winning and best-selling author of Pacific Northwest crime fiction. His novels about Vancouver PI Dave Wakeland are one of the most authentic and acclaimed contemporary detective series. Wiebe’s other work includes Ocean Drive, Last of the Independents, and the Ethan Brand series under the pen name Nolan Chase. Wiebe has been writer in residence at Simon Fraser University and the Vancouver Public Library, edited the Vancouver Noir anthology, and has been published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, The National Post, The Walrus, Montecristo, and Image Comics, among many others. He's won the Kobo Emerging Writers Prize and two Crime Writers of Canada awards, and been nominated for the Edgar, Hammett, Shamus, and City of Vancouver book prizes. Contact Sam at samwiebe.com or join his newsletter at samwiebe.substack.com, 

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