Louise Penny: Louise Penny's first book, Still Life, won the Crime Writers of Canada 2006 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Crime Novel, as well as the Creasy New Blood Dagger for Best First Crime Novel in Britain. Her second novel, Dead Cold (MacArthur & Co., 2006), has just been published to outstanding reviews and is set in the fictional Quebec village of Three Pines at Christmas. Her books are being translated into German and French. Louise Penny was a journalist and host on CBC Radio for many years.

Robert Landori: Robert Landori’s first novel, Fatal Greed (Studio 9, 2006) is a spy thriller based on his contact with international financiers, notorious con men, and the intelligence communities of several countries, including Iran. He has spent time in England, France, Switzerland, and Hungary and speaks eight languages. After being held on espionage charges in Cuba, Mr. Landori was released and became an international security consultant. He now lives in Montreal.

Michael Blair: Overexposed (Dundurn, 2006) is his third mystery. “Funny, fast and smart,” wrote Margaret Cannon of the Globe & Mail, “McCall and gang are terrific characters who really click.” It is a sequel to If Looks Could Kill (McClelland & Steward, 2001), which was a finalist in the 1999 Chapters/ Roberston Davies Literary Prize and short-listed for the Quebec Writers’ Federation 2001 First Book Award. His second mystery, A Hard Winter Rain (Dundurn, 2004) was called “exciting and atmospheric” by the Canadian Book Review. He is the National VP of Crime Writers of Canada.

NAT Grant: NAT Grant is author of Race Without Rules and Running the Race, the first two books in her Race series (Llumina Press). The Race series books are international espionage thrillers set in Montreal. The Westmount Examiner called her first book “a page turning read, hard-hitting, thought-provoking”. Grant is now completing her third novel in the series, An Inhuman Race. She is the Quebec and Atlantic Region VP for Crime Writers of Canada.

For more information, and to arrange interviews, please contact Nancy Grant, Crime Writers of Canada, Quebec and Atlantic Region, at 514-426-0547 or by email at
spy at natgrant.com

Crime Writers of Canada
Quebec & Atlantic Region
136 Highgate
Pointe-Claire QC, H9R 2X4
Tel: 514-426-0547