Tessa Wegert and Claire Askew
Online Conversation March 16 at 11am EST
Join Montreal Mystery for an exclusive online event featuring the brilliant minds of Tessa Wegert and Claire Askew. This is an opportunity to delve into the intricacies of mystery writing with the authors who brought Senior Investigator Shana Merchant and DI Helen Birch to life.
Tessa Wegert and Claire Askew will be discussing their most recent novels, Devils at the Door and The Dead Don't Speak. After the conversation there will be an opportunity for fans to ask burning questions about the books, characters, and anything related to the art of mystery writing.
Register Now to secure your spot!
There is a suggested donation of $5. Your donation supports the Montreal Mystery Festival.
Tessa Wegert and Claire Askew will be discussing their most recent novels, Devils at the Door and The Dead Don't Speak. After the conversation there will be an opportunity for fans to ask burning questions about the books, characters, and anything related to the art of mystery writing.
Register Now to secure your spot!
There is a suggested donation of $5. Your donation supports the Montreal Mystery Festival.
Author Bios
Tessa WegertTessa Wegert is the author of the Shana Merchant mysteries, set in the Thousand Islands of Ontario and Upstate New York. A former digital media strategist and journalist, Tessa’s work has appeared in The Globe and Mail, The Montreal Gazette, and The Economist, and her books have been featured on PBS, NCPR Radio, and in Canadian Living. Tessa was raised in the Eastern Townships of Quebec and now lives with her husband and children in Connecticut, where she studies martial arts and will be releasing her sixth novel, The Coldest Case, in November of 2024.
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Claire AskewClaire Askew is the author of the Edinburgh-based DI Birch series, published by Hodder & Stoughton. The first book in the series, All The Hidden Truths, won the 2016 Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize as a work in progress, and the 2019 Bloody Scotland Crime Debut Prize. Books in the DI Birch series have been twice shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger. The most recent Birch book is The Dead Don't Speak (2023), and a sixth, Line Of Sight, is forthcoming in 2024. Outside of crime fiction, Claire also writes non-fiction and poetry: her second poetry collection, How To Burn A Woman (Bloodaxe, 2021) won the Saltire Scottish Poetry Book of the Year Award in 2022. Claire holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh, and has been a Scottish Book Trust Reading Champion, a Jessie Kesson Fellow, and a University of Edinburgh Writer in Residence. She currently lives in Cumbria.
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