An Evening with Kate Hilton & Elizabeth Renzetti
Thursday Mar 21 2024 7:00 pm - Grant Park in the Atrium, Streaming on YouTube, Winnipeg
Join Kate Hilton and Elizabeth Renzetti as they visit Winnipeg to celebrate the publication of their collaborative novel Bury the Lead: A Quill & Packet Mystery (House of Anansi Press). Featuring a conversation hosted by Temur Durrani of The Globe & Mail followed by a book signing.
The event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream.
A big-city journalist joins the staff of a small-town paper in cottage country and finds a community full of secrets … and murder.
Cat Conway has recently returned to Port Ellis to work as a reporter at the Quill & Packet. She’s fled the tattered remains of her high-profile career and bad divorce for the holiday town of her childhood, famous for its butter tarts, theatre, and a century-old feud. One of Cat’s first assignments is to interview legendary actor Eliot Fraser, the lead in the theatre’s season opener of Inherit the Wind. When Eliot ends up dead onstage on opening night, the curtain rises on the sleepy town’s secrets. The suspects include the actor whose career Eliot ruined, the ex-wife he betrayed, the women he abused, and even the baker he wronged. With the attention of the world on Port Ellis, this story could be Cat’s chance to restore her reputation. But the police think she’s a suspect, and the murderer wants to kill the story—and her too. Can Cat solve the mystery before she loses her job or becomes the next victim of a killer with a theatrical bent for vengeance?
Kate Hilton is the bestselling author of three novels: The Hole in the Middle, Just like Family, and Better Luck Next Time. When not writing, Kate works with psychotherapy and life coaching clients in the area of transformational change. No stranger to reinvention herself, Kate has had prior careers in law, university administration, publishing, and major gift fundraising. She lives in Toronto in a blended family—including a husband, two sons, a stepdaughter, and a rescue dog.
Elizabeth Renzetti is a bestselling Canadian author and journalist. She has worked for the Globe and Mail as a reporter, editor, and columnist. In 2020 she won the Landsberg Award for her reporting on gender equality. She is the author of the essay collection Shrewed: A Wry and Closely Observed Look at the Lives of Women and Girls and the novel Based on a True Story. Her book What She Said: Conversations about Equality will be published in 2024. She lives in Toronto with her family.
Host Temur Durrani is a national reporter for The Globe and Mail, focusing on Manitoba. He is also the host of Better For It, a Globe podcast about how failures shape Canadian business leaders. Previously, he was a technology reporter for The Globe’s Report on Business, based in Toronto. A globe-trotting newshound, Mr. Durrani has covered protests in Hong Kong, graffiti art in India and Pakistan, crashes in Alaska, crime in the GTA, federal politics in Ottawa, small business in the Maritimes, finance on the Prairies, and even the Raptors’ historic run to the NBA final. Before joining The Globe, he worked at BNN Bloomberg, where he reported investigative stories and business features for broadcast and digital audiences. Prior to that, Mr. Durrani was a staff reporter at the Winnipeg Free Press, the Toronto Star, iPolitics, and the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal. He is now stationed in Winnipeg.