Mme Elizabeth Pilz de Cantley (Outaouais) est l’heureuse gagnante du lecteur Kindle offert par Dymaxicon, éditeur de David Swinson et le Festival QuébeCrime.

Le lecteur Kindle gagné par Mme Pilz est préchargé avec les livres suivants :

A Detailed Man de David Swinson

The Elements of Scrum  de Chris Sims & Hillary Louise Johnson

BeBop Garden de Ricki Grady

Shooting Stars de Hillary Louise Johnson

The Sushi King’s Daughter de Larry Kronish

The Queens of Montague Street de Nancy Rommelmann

Le tirage s’effectuait parmi ceux qui ont achetés leurs billets sur le site du festival, à La Maison Anglaise ou à la porte, la journée de l’événement.

Madame Pilz était également des nôtres pour la première édition du Festival l’an dernier. Félicitation Mme Pilz!

Ms Elizabeth Pilz of Cantley (Outaouais region in Quebec) is the lucky winner of the Kindle reader offered by Dymaxicon, David Swinson’s editor, and the  QuébeCrime Festival.

The Kindle reader won by Ms Pilz already has the following books dowloaded in it:

A Detailed Man by David Swinson

The Elements of Scrum  by Chris Sims & Hillary Louise Johnson

BeBop Garden by Ricki Grady

Shooting Stars by Hillary Louise Johnson

The Sushi King’s Daughter by Larry Kronish

The Queens of Montague Street by Nancy Rommelmann

The lucky winner was chosen among all those who had purchased QuébeCrime Festival tickets on the website, at the store or at the door of the events.

Ms Pilz was also with us during the first edition of the Festival last year. Congratulations Ms. Pilz!

Our first special event of the second edition of the QuebeCrime festival was a great success!

This afternoon, Swedish author Mons Kallentoft payed a special visit to Cégep Garneau where he filled an auditorium so much, people were sitting on the steps to listen to him speak.

Among discussions of his life, the themes of his books and his career as an author, Kallentoft described his many rejections from editing houses. For about fifteen years he was rejected from one editing house after another until finally, he was accepted. His debut, Pesetas, was awarded the Swedish equivalent to the Whitbread Award. What followed was a series of critically acclaimed books that garnered both swedish and international praise!

Kallentoft also discussed how he decided to rejuvenate the stereotype of the forty-something male detective struggling with an addiction by transposing it to a 34 year old female. The first book in the series about superintendent Malin Fors received unanimous praise from the national critics; it also conquered the bestseller charts and has today sold more than 300,000 copies in Sweden alone.

Want to know more about Malin Fors or Mons Kallentoft? Join us at the Morrin Center tonight for the start of the festival! Check out the Crime Scene tab at the top of our web page.

Are you coming to the festival? The QuébeCrime Festival starts tomorrow, Thursday October25th, with an Opening Cocktail at the Morrin Centre at 5PM. Captain Émile Trudel, Quebec’s Chief of Police from 1903 to 1939, will share with us a few anecdotes of his professional life, among which his involvement in the Blanche Garneau case, one of Quebec’s unsolved crimes. Several of QuebeCrime’s Most Wanted authors will be there.

Have you read John Connolly? Patrick Senécal? Mons Kallentoft? The thrill of the festival is getting to discover many great authors and meeting them in person. This year we have a great line-up of 23 international authors with events in French and in English. You can read the biography of most of the authors participating in the QuébeCrime festival by clicking on their image on this page.

Our main events are divided into discussion panels, where four to six authors will be discussing and debating specific subjects, and readings, where each author will read an extract from their latest book. In both cases you will get a chance to meet the authors and get your books signed. Books in French and in English will be available to purchase on location.

Ever wished you could be a member of a CSI team? Our special CSI activity will allow you to be part of a Crime Scene Investigation team and follow chemistry specialists as you investigate a (fake, we think…) crime scene and analyze the evidence to uncover the truth!

All the events of the QuébeCrime Festival take place at the Morrin Centre. The festival ends on Saturday October 27th with our last event beginning at 9PM. You can purchase your tickets at La Maison Anglaise bookstore or online today. When the festival starts, tickets will only be available at the door of the festival itself. Get your tickets now as places are limited.

We look forward to seeing you at QuébeCrime!

La Maison Anglaise and the Quebec Chronicle Telegraph have joined up to give you the opportunity to get a free ticket for the QuébeCrime Festival. The number of tickets are limited. Read the Quebec Chronicle Telegraph‘s article to find out more about it.

Why do authors write murder & mystery novels? What inspires them, motivates them? QuebeCrime festival writers share their answers with Quebec Chronicle Telegraph’s Marie White.

 Peter Kirby’s debut novel, The Dead of Winter, joins a succession of bestselling crime novels set in Montreal and spurs speculation about a film deal. Responding to an interview in the Montreal Review of Books, Kirby says: “Do I think it would make a good film? Sure, I do. And I don’t think there are enough Montreal crime films. This city is cinematic heaven for dark crime stories.” 

“One of the new additions to the fine stable of crime writers in this country”

-CBC Sunday Edition

“A powerful ride through the dark and raw of Montreal.  Temperance Brennan would feel right at home.”

-Kathy Reichs, author of Flash and Bones and Bones are Forever

 ”Saints, villains, the homeless and the powerful are held in winter’s suspenseful grip. In a riveting new series, Peter Kirby reveals Montreal at the worst of times, its underbelly exposed and dire forces at play.” 

-John Farrow, author of City of Ice and River City