These three authors all come to the festival with stories about not-so-kinder, not-so-gentler times. Not all their protagonists lived to tell about it!
Dianne Freeman is the acclaimed author of the Countess of Harleigh Mystery series. She is an Agatha Award and Lefty Award winner, as well as a finalist for the prestigious Mary Higgins Clark Award and the Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award....
Rosemary Simpson's "Death at the Falls" is the seventh book in A Gilded Age Mystery series. She is a member of Sisters in Crime, International Thriller Writers and the Historical Novel Society. Educated in France and the United States, she now lives near Tucson....
Iona Whishaw has been a youth worker, social worker, teacher and an award winning high school principal, who continued with her writing throughout her working life. Receiving her Masters in Creative writing from UBC, Iona has published short fiction, poetry, poetry translation and one children’s book, "Henry and the Cow Problem....