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True North Stories
by Alan Warren
True North Stories is a compelling radio series featuring in-depth interviews with Canada's most intriguing literary voices—authors who have previously appeared on the renowned House of Mystery Radio Show. From bestselling crime novelists to award-winning poets, memoirists, and emerging storytellers, this show shines a spotlight on the diverse and dynamic talents shaping Canadian literature today. Hosted with curiosity and warmth, each episode offers listeners an intimate conversation with a Canadian author—exploring their inspirations, writing process, cultural influences, and the stories behind their stories. Whether you're a passionate reader, a fellow writer, or simply fascinated by the creative journey, Canadian Writers delivers thought-provoking dialogue and insightful perspectives from the country's literary frontlines. Tune in to hear the voices that are defining Canadian storytelling—one interview at a time. <p
Episodes
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Peter T. Pontsa - Measure of Morality
When an accountant is murdered after accidentally receiving confidential records of illicit financial transactions, RCMP Inspector William Fox is drawn into an investigation that quickly unravels into a far-reaching criminal conspiracy. What begins as a single homicide exposes a network driven by...
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JM Shaw - The Fractured Veil
Some worlds break quietly. Others shatter everything. Callum Walker has survived betrayal, prophecy, and supernatural war—but survival is becoming harder with every secret uncovered. Now hunted by forces far beyond mortal understanding, Callum finds himself accused of crimes he did not commit and...
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Matthew Hughes - One More Kill
He was a trained killer. A US Army Ranger major. An orphan who rose from nothing to become one of the deadliest men in the military. But when a low-grade leukemia ended his career, the Army pushed him out and left him with nothing but a pension and a feeling of uselessness. Then a rogue doctor…
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Richard H Stephens (Witches & Wings) & David M. Kelly - (A Crimson Void)
A Crimson Void: Hellhound Series, Book One An obsolete ship. A disgraced captain. One chance at redemption. For a hundred and fifty years, an uneasy peace has endured within the Ballenverse—a hundred-light-year sphere centered on Sol. But now Corporate forces have launched a ruthless surprise...
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A-M Mawhiney - Fugitive Rifts
Does everyone have secrets? When four teens are invited to meet after school with a teacher, the butterfly effect of this one small event soon changes their dreams about their futures. Thrown together to form, of all things, a debate team, the four—Grace, a popular star basketball player, Drew, a...
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Alison McBain - The Rose Queen
The Rose Queen was a fantasy finalist for 2019 IAN Book of the Year, and also a finalist for the 2019 Literary Classics Book Award. In addition, it was named as one of the best books of 2018 by the reviewer website Bookshine and Readbows. What makes it so intriguing? Perhaps it's because the…
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Nick Cutter - The Dorians
The all-new novel of terror from “one of the hottest horror authors on the planet” (Paste) and writer of the #HorrorBookTok sensation The Troop! On a remote island in the Canadian wilderness, five elderly volunteers from different walks of life are given a tantalizing offer: to stall their...
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J.M. Shaw - Forsaken Souls
ANCIENT HATRED NEVER DIES. For two centuries, the Der’geron have waited. Exiled after the great elven war, they have nursed their vengeance in silence. Now, as unrest fractures the Northern Kingdom and alliances weaken, the long-shadowed enemy begins to rise. Callum Walker never asked for…
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Deborah Wilde - Ace Of Shades
Gehenna isn’t on Google Maps and there’s no Angel Annihilation for Dummies. To Miriam Feldman, list lover extraordinaire, this is an irritating oversight. It’s fine. She’s got this mission under control. Sure, her instructions are vague, and her team is trigger-happy, but she’s got plenty of...
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Zoey Michaels - Fractured Shadows
A world on the brink of change. Freedom stripped away for the greater good and a only a handful of brave people willing to risk their lives and their minds to save their world from being controlled by the Echolink designed for the good but hijacked to create a hive system benefiting only the…
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Erik D'Souza - Death On The Rocks
In the mood for an idyllic escape? Death on the Rocks will transport you right to the sunshine coast, where a community theatre event finds its members dying, and only senior citizen sleuth Suzanne must use her experience and intuition to follow the all too human twists to the real killer, before...
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A.L. Jensen - Midsummer Marriage and Murder
The wedding was perfect. The body ruined everything. Interior designer turned amateur sleuth Minna Halonen has finally hit her stride. Hygge House is thriving, and she and business partner Christie Andersson are pulling out all the stops for Lakewood's most anticipated wedding — a dreamy…
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Sam Wiebe - Guns Across the River
Sam Wiebe’s gripping sixth Wakeland novel delivers a taut, atmospheric mystery that dives into corruption, crime and family secrets deeply rooted in Vancouver’s underworld. On a dark night in False Creek, a distraught young woman jumps from the Granville Bridge. PI Dave Wakeland rescues Nicola...
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Maria Jane - Perfect Secrets
Lawyers assume their clients don’t tell them everything. Elle Moore assumes she’ll never escape her past. Desperate for a fresh start, Elle jumps at the chance to work for Watson Clarke, a prestigious law firm offering a near-free path through law school. It’s everything she’s ever wanted.…
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A.L. Jensen - Hygge and Homicide
Escape to the charming small town of Lakewood in this delightful Scandinavian-inspired cozy mystery! When talented interior designer Minna Halonen returns to her idyllic northern hometown after decades away, she's ready for a fresh start. Recently divorced and with her daughter grown, Minna…
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Dwayne Brenner - The Laundryman
In the frozen heart of the 1883 Canadian frontier, a single death unveils a darkness that could consume a town—and the men sworn to protect it. Corporal Belvedere, a Mountie scarred by a brutal past, and Surgeon Virgil Montgomery, a newcomer haunted by his own doubts, are drawn into a murder...
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Robyn Harding - Stranger in the Villa
From the international bestselling author of The Drowning Woman, a psychological thriller about a couple rocked by infidelity who moves to a villa in Spain’s Costa Brava to rebuild their relationship, only to welcome a pair of visitors who have no intention of leaving. Sydney Lowe’s life in New...
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Harper Carr - The Shadow Man
DARK FAMILY SECRETS. A HAUNTED LIGHTHOUSE. A GIRL WHO SEES THE DEAD. WELCOME TO FEROZ ISLAND. Seventeen-year-old Gracelyn Lassiter has been hiding in her aunt’s house for four years—since her mother plunged from the cliffs at Feroz Lighthouse, leaving her without her home, her best friend, or...
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J.M. Clarke & C.J. Thompson - Rune Seeker
The Everfail will rise. His enemies will fall. Hiral is the Everfail, the weakest person on the flying island of Fallen Reach. He trains harder than any warrior. Studies longer than any scholar. But all his people are born with magic powered by the sun, flowing through tattoos on their bodies....
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Sebastien de Castell - Our Lady of Blades
'A spirited swashbuckling fantasy about family, revenge and the price of justice' - Silvia Moreno-Garcia, author of Mexican Gothic Two sisters: divided by tragedy, united by steel. The incredible new novel in the Court of Shadows series by the bestselling author of TRAITOR'S BLADE and THE...
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J.M. Shaw - The Ascension: First Novel in The Callum Walker Series
A hidden war is spilling into our world. Two realms. One veil. A conflict that won’t stay buried. Callum Walker never asked for power — and he certainly never asked for destiny. Born with arcane abilities he barely understands, Callum is drawn into a secret magical world of monsters, ancient...
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Angela van Breemen - Revenge is not Enough
Revenge can’t undo what was done. When young psychic Emma Jackson experiences a terrifying vision of a teenage girl being raped, she is shaken to the core. As her husband, David Harris, tries to comfort her, his worry increases when her shattered voice whispers, “Her name was Maggie.” David...
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Joel Nedecky - The Broken Detective
Sam Wiebe’s Invisible Dead meets John McMahon’s The Good Detective in this gritty detective novel that centers around a man’s struggle to solve a crime that will guarantee the safety of his loved ones, while he faces life changing consequences of his family’s alcoholic past. Private investigator...
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Tara Hodgson - At Least I'm Trying
When the volleyball hits the floor mere inches from Reese’s hands, her dreams of playing college ball shatter. After consecutive failures on the court, in the classroom, and in her relationships, she’s done playing the part of perfect daughter, perfect student, and perfect athlete. It’s time for…
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Lynda Williams - The Beauty and the Hell of It
A woman comes face to face with her rapist at his engagement party. A teen reluctantly celebrating the first Christmas after her mother’s death gets caught cutting her wrists by a stranger. A student hands in a box of Kraft Dinner as her final assignment, and a bipolar art teacher grieves her...
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Thomas Mark McKinnon - In Spite of Thunder
FBI agent Frank Adler’s life is upended when his daughter vanishes on what should have been the trip of a lifetime. No witnesses. No demands. No trace. Refusing to wait for an investigation from the sidelines, Frank breaks protocol and follows a trail of clues that lead him into a shadowy...
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Ryan Melsom - Gods of a New World
The trillionaires were powerful enough to reshape the world, but it wasn’t enough. Now they want more . . . In a world where trillionaires assisted by powerful AIs call themselves gods, a world where miracles are engineered and secret technology is wired into the very air, James Kessler and Maree...
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Judy Penz Sheluk - Midnight Schemers & Daydream Believers
Desire or desperation, revenge or retribution—how far would you go to realize a dream? The twenty-two authors in this collection explore the possibilities, with predictably unpredictable results. Featuring stories by Pam Barnsley, Linda Bennett, Clark Boyd, C.W. Blackwell, Amanda Capper, Susan...
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Desmond P. Ryan - Dangerous Assumptions
Detective Mike O'Shea is spiraling—consumed by painkiller addiction, alcohol, and the crushing weight of unresolved grief. As his personal demons threaten to take control, he’s pulled into a chilling case: a woman is found dead, her son rotting beside her, discovered only when neighbors are…
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Tara Hodgson - Chasing Through Time
In the tumultuous world of high school, Emma grapples with a devastating breakup, a damning social media scandal that threatens her reputation, and an overwhelming sense of isolation. Her parents are distant, she has no true friends, and her despair deepens with each passing day. One fateful…
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Robert J Sawyer - L. Ron Hubbard Award Winner
“An imaginative restructuring of a phantasmagoric life into an alternative phantasmagorical story. Oppenheimer fans will be intrigued.” —Martin J. Sherwin, co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the basis for...
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Edo Van Belkom - Death drives A Semi
Keep one eye on the road ahead and another on the rearview mirror. Because, like the legendary phantom semi of this book's titular story, these stories will creep up on you and overtake you without warning. Edo van Belkom twists his unique perspective and droll, black sense of humor into twisted...
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Richard H Stephens - Windwalker
'The White Witch had foreseen Pecklyn’s death at Grim Watch Tower. If the Queen of the Fae was to be trusted, Pecklyn wasn’t coming back.' Maturing into a confident leader, prepared to take on the world, the rightful heir to the Willow Throne is faced with a fierce battle if she is ever to assume...
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Daniele Cybulskie - Chivalry and Courtesy: Medieval Manners for a Modern World
A surprising look at how medieval etiquette can improve our lives today, from the author of the popular How to Live Like a Monk Medieval people are often portrayed as having poor hygiene and table manners―licking their knives or throwing chicken bones on the floor. In the Middle Ages, however…
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Hannah Mary McKinnon - The Revenge List
They say life flashes before your eyes when you’re about to die. But all she could see was regret. The people in Frankie Morgan’s life say she’s angry. Emotionally stunted. Combative. But really, who can blame her? It’s hard being nice when your clients are insufferable, your next-door neighbor…
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Steve Urszenyi - Perfect Shot
A former Army sniper must fall back on her Special Ops skills when a friend’s death uncovers a global nuclear threat, in Steve Urszenyi's Perfect Shot, the first in an electrifying new series featuring Special Agent Alexandra Martel. Special Agent Alexandra Martel has put her days on the...
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Bruce Hornidge - Logger Heads
“For a decade, the issue of forest and land use in British Columbia raged like a forest fire . . .” Shamed by demonstrators as a “tree-killer,” Clayoquot Sound tree faller Bruce Hornidge faced soul-searing losses of identity and family livelihood. This gripping, irony-laden memoir of a life spent...
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Joel McKay - It Came from the Trees
Winner of the 2025 BookFest silver award for horror and the 2024 Global Book Awards bronze metal for short fiction, It Came From the Trees and Other Violent Aberrations is your retro-pulp style collection of afternoon reads! Tree planters on the run from parasitic insects. A physicist who has...
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Matthew Hughes - A God in Hiding
In a far-future world of wizards and walled cities, Lieve Reder has risen from being a small chandler’s daughter to become the captain of a riverboat owned by House Bernaglio in the oligarch-run city of Exley. She has ambitions to rise higher and when her employer, the widow Philaria Bernaglio,...
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Don Sawyer - The Burning Gem
The Burning Gem spins from chance meeting of a woman ready for adventure after years in a loveless marriage and a mysterious artisan who will show her another world. Barbara has always had an uncanny ability to read others, but her full empathic skills emerge only after a part of her soul is...
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Ivanka Fear - The Dead Lie: A Blue Water Mystery
Book 1: You can run. You can hide. But in the end, the past catches up with you. Lana, a young mother who suffered a traumatic event 11 years ago, has been living under an assumed name. When she visits her hometown to check if it’s safe to reclaim her identity, Lana suffers several mishaps. Then,...
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Judy Penz Sheluk - Larceny & Last Chances (A Superior Shores Anthology Book 4)
Larceny & Last Chances Sometimes, it’s about doing the right thing. Sometimes, it’s about getting even. Sometimes, it’s about taking what you think you deserve. And sometimes, it’s your last, best chance. Edited by Judy Penz Sheluk and featuring stories by Christina Boufis, John Bukowski, Brenda...
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Brenda Chapman - Larceny & Last Chances (A Superior Shores Anthology Book 4)
Larceny & Last Chances Sometimes, it’s about doing the right thing. Sometimes, it’s about getting even. Sometimes, it’s about taking what you think you deserve. And sometimes, it’s your last, best chance. Edited by Judy Penz Sheluk and featuring stories by Christina Boufis, John Bukowski, Brenda...
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Alison McBain - Author Vs. AI
It's GO time! Author Versus AI has officially started! To follow along with my journey, check out my "sister" website Author Versus AI. I'll be doing fun things to mark my journey throughout the course of the year, such as posting summaries of the books I'm working on, fun tidbits about genres…
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Jenna Greene - Silencers
On the "Best Young Adult Dystopian Novels" list on Goodreads! Scona must choose. Protect her father, or embrace the darkness she's been trained to destroy... Despite warnings from family and friends, Scona Tinay enrolls in Silencers Academy. To escape a life of poverty and hardship and ensure a...
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Beau Johnson - Chainsaw Noir
I have published before, usually on the darker side of town. Seeing as I'm Canadian, I will always wish you well. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Brian O'Neill - Twelfth Juror
The true account of the twisted affair between murder suspect Peter Gill and Canada's most famous juror Gillian Guess Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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James Bow - The Sun Runners
Lieutenant Adelheid Koning was only twenty-three when the Earth’s long fight against its environment ended in collapse and nuclear war. Earth’s sudden silence leaves the colonies of the inner solar system without lifelines, in various stages of self-sufficiency. Or, in Mercury’s case, not. To…
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Joyce Woollcott - Blood Relations
Belfast, Northern Ireland: early spring 2017. Retired Chief Inspector Patrick Mullan is found brutally murdered in his bed. Detective Sergeant Ryan McBride and his partner Detective Sergeant Billy Lamont are called to his desolate country home to investigate. In their inquiry, they discover a man...
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Jerry Langton - How It's Done
Dave is like nobody you’ve ever met. Or maybe you have, but didn’t know it. Thrown out of his home at 14, he used his wits, charm and determination to become one of the most successful drug dealers in Canada. But, after the birth of his son, he knew he had to make one last big score before…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
True North Stories is a compelling radio series featuring in-depth interviews with Canada's most intriguing literary voices—authors who have previously appeared on the renowned House of Mystery Radio Show. From bestselling crime novelists to award-winning poets, memoirists, and emerging storytellers, this show shines a spotlight on the diverse and dynamic talents shaping Canadian literature today.
Hosted with curiosity and warmth, each episode offers listeners an intimate conversation with a Canadian author—exploring their inspirations, writing process, cultural influences, and the stories behind their stories. Whether you're a passionate reader, a fellow writer, or simply fascinated by the creative journey, Canadian Writers delivers thought-provoking dialogue and insightful perspectives from the country's literary frontlines.
Tune in to hear the voices that are defining Canadian storytelling—one interview at a time.
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