Thrills and Chills panel looks at all things mystery and crime at Whistler Writers Festival, October 15
Charles Demers, Daniel Kalla, Anna Pitoniak, and Sandra SG Wong share their eerie secrets, online and in-person
Charles Demers
Sandra SG Wong
Whistler Writers Festival runs online and in person to October 16. Thrills and Chills: Mystery and Crime Writers Panel runs from 1:15 to 2:30 pm at the Fairmont Chateau Whistler and online on October 15
B.C. MYSTERY WRITER Amber Cowie investigates four new thrillers by at this week’s Whister Writers Festival.
Her Thrills and Chills panel on Saturday features award-winning authors Charles Demers, whose Noonday Dark finds sleuth Dr. Annick Boudreau, an Acadian cognitive therapist, on a search for a missing patient; Daniel Kalla, a practising Vancouver emergency-room physician whose The Darkness in the Light follows a psychiatrist on the trail of a mystery in a community in the Far North; Anna Pitoniak, whose Our American Friend is about a young White House correspondent hired to write an enigmatic First Lady’s biography; and Sandra SG Wong, whose acclaimed thriller debut In the Dark We Forget kicks off with a woman wakig up beside a mountain highway, alone and unable to remember who she is.
Each of the scribes will talk about their tricks to building suspense—and, of course, thrills and chills.
As an added bonus: each audience member is invited to solve a mystery within a fanfiction crime story based on one of the authors’ characters—the lucky winner toting home all four of these authors’ mystery novels.
Other highlights over the weekend include a 9 am event on October 16 that could only happen at a Whistler writers' celebration: A Walk to Lost Lake and Back Again at 9 am—a lovely forest promenade with writers Jónína Kirton (Standing in a River of Time), Grant Lawrence (Return to Solitude), Tolu Oloruntoba (The Junta of Happenstance and Each One a Furnace) and Merilyn Simonds (Women, Watching: Louise de Kiriline Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi Bay).
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