Victoria Festival of Authors-The Usual Suspects

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Moderator | Frances Thorsen

Or are they? On closer examination, the usual just might not be very usual at all. Ian Hamilton’s popular Ava Lee series features a heroine whose investigations into financial crimes spans Canada and Asia.

Iona Whishaw’s Lane Winslow series, set in the Kootenays following the Second World War, has been lauded for its handling of social issues that remain relevant today.

And while he writes under the pseudonym Nathan Ripley, Toronto writer Naben Ruthnum is anything but guarded about his interest in messing with the tropes of the thriller novel.

Join these three bestselling authors as they discuss their love of the genre and bringing the unexpected to bear on it. Be prepared to set aside your assumptions of what is serial, cozy, and even Canadian.

It’s happening! The fourth annual Victoria Festival of Authors launches October 2019 with a fantastic lineup of local and national authors. Join us for seven days of readers and writers celebrating words and engaging with ideas. Listen to inspiring readings, check out the diverse voices on discussion panels, and attend workshops to develop your own craft.

Connect, Celebrate, Inspire
The Victoria Festival of Authors celebrates great books, great writers, and great readers. We’re here to connect book-makers and book lovers. The Victoria Festival of Authors hosts readings and discussions, as well as workshops and master classes, to inspire both developing and established writers.Authors from across the country share their writing, their ideas, and writing techniques at the annual Victoria Festival of Authors each September. Between festivals, local and visiting authors read at regular salons, and coach writers of all levels in our inspirational island city.The Victoria Festival of Authors embraces poets, fiction and creative non-fiction writers, and other storytellers who come from a spectrum of communities and from all levels of a writing career.We are a community-based group devoted to literature in its many forms. The not-for-profit Victoria Festival of Authors Society incorporated in 2016, to bring sustainability to the ongoing efforts of the Festival.