Join us for a di scussion with award-winning and bestselling authors Will Ferguson and Greg Rhyno as they discuss their newest crime fiction and mystery novels: Officer Shimada and the Disappearing Girl by Will Ferguson and Who By His Own Hand by Greg Rhyno.
\nBooks wi ll be available for purchase\, and a signing will follow the event.
\n< p>Presented in partnership with Words Worth Books.\nAn empty elevator. A missing girl. A brother&rsquo\;s obsessive search for the truth.
\nIn \;southern Japan\, a young woman enters an elevator in a bar buildi ng late at night. But when the doors open\, she has vanished. Fifteen year s later\, her younger brother Kaito has risen up the ranks to police inspe ctor\, still haunted by his sister&rsquo\;s disappearance.
\nOn a sl eepy island in Okinawa\, Kaito tracks down Mr. Shimada\, a senior officer who once solved an impossible elevator crime decades earlier. The unlikely pair travels back to the city where Kaito&rsquo\;s sister first disappear ed &mdash\; to the very elevator where it occurred. Together\, they retrac e her steps and uncover the truth of what happened that night.
\nThe story of a lost family\, lifelong regrets\, and quiet desperation\, Offic er Shimada and the Disappearing Girl \;pulses with action and leaves r eaders yearning for resolution.
\nWill Ferguson is a bestselling author whose work has spanned fiction\, travel writing\, history\, and humour. His literary thriller 419 won the Giller Prize in 2012\, and his novel The Finder \;received t he 2021 Arthur Ellis Award for Crime Fiction. A three-time winner of the S tephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humor\, he has been nominated for both t he IMPAC Dublin Award and a Commonwealth Writers&rsquo\; Prize.
\nFe rguson&rsquo\;s travels have taken him around the globe. He lived in Japan for five years and regularly returns to visit his extended family. He is the author of the celebrated Japanese travel memoir Hitching Rides wit h Buddha \;(originally titled Hokkaido Highway Blues) an d the budget The Hitchhiker&rsquo\;s Guide to Japan. He walked ac ross Northern Ireland in Beyond Belfast\, travelled Canada in Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw\, and journeyed through central Africa in Road Trip Rwanda. His debut novel\, Happiness\, was sold in 23 languages. Ferguson has written for The New York Times\, Esquire UK\, and Canadian Geographic . He lives in Calgary.
\nAbout Who By His Own Hand
\nSingle mother and reluctant detective Dame Polara would l ike nothing more than to leave the world of amateur sleuthing behind her\, but when her two-year-old daughter is abducted by a vindictive nemesis\, she must draw on her unusual talents and her retired PI father&rsquo\;s sh ady connections to save her family.
\nAbout Greg Rhyno
\nGreg Rhyno is the author of Who by Fire\, first of th e Dame Polara Mysteries\, which was nominated for a Crime Writers of Canad a Award of Excellence. His debut novel\, To Me You Seem Giant\, w as nominated for a ReLit Award and an Alberta Book Publishing Award. His w riting has appeared in a number of journals\, including Hobart\, Riddle Fe nce\, The Quarantine Review\, and PRISM International. He completed an MFA at the University of Guelph and lives with his family in Guelph\, Ontario .
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