What happens when hidden truths come to light?
Join Roz Nay and Suzanne Scott Tomita for readings and conversation from their latest novels. From a witty courtroom mystery to a richly layered literary crime novel spanning post-colonial Singapore and contemporary London, these books explore secrets, suspense, and the lasting impact of the past. Together, the authors will discuss writing mystery, creating memorable characters, and the art of keeping readers turning pages
Location: C420 UBC Robson Square
Moderator: Erik D’Souza
Readers: Roz Nay, All Rise for Murder (Penguin Random House Canada) | Suzanne Scott Tomita, Until Even the Angels (Penguin Random House SEA, South East Asia)
About The Moderator
Erik D'Souza
ERIK D’SOUZA is an author and publisher based in Port Moody, BC. Among his works, “Death in Halfmoon Bay” stands out as the first book in the Suzanne Rickson Mystery Series. He is The Marketing and Communications Manager for Crime Writers of Canada. He is the president of the Tri-City Wordsmiths and hosts the popular reading series, Writers in our Midst, at the Port Moody Public Library.
Learn more at www.erikdsouza.com
About The Readers
Roz Nay
Roz Nay is the author of four bestselling and acclaimed thrillers: Our Little Secret, which won the Douglas Kennedy Prize for best foreign thriller in France, and was nominated for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Mystery and the Arthur Ellis Best First Novel Award; Hurry Home and The Hunted, which were both shortlisted for the Crime Writers of Canada Best Crime Novel award; and The Offing, which has been optioned for TV. All Rise for Murder is the first book in Roz’s new Madam Clerk mystery series. Roz has lived and worked in Africa, Australia, the US, and the UK. She now lives in BC, Canada, with her husband and two children.
Suzanne Scott Tomita
https://www.penguin.sg/book/until-even-the-angels/
Suzanne Scott Tomita was born in Tunisia and raised in Venezuela, Germany, Indonesia, Canada, and Australia. Her writing includes personal essays on the topic of motherhood, mid-life, and marriage published in Canada’s national newspaper The Globe and Mail. She has published on the topic of home and belonging in Expat Living Singapore.
Suzanne has a PhD in Education from The University of British Columbia. In 2014, Suzanne completed The Writer’s Studio (TWS) Creative Writing Certificate at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada where she studied with writers Kevin Chong and Wayde Compton. At TWS she wrote the beginnings of her debut novel, a selected chapter of which is published in Emerge, SFU Publications.
Suzanne completed an advanced fiction course with author Claire Keegan in 2023 at the Asia Creative Writing Programme, a collaboration between the National Arts Council of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University. When she’s not reading or writing, Suzanne walks Vancouver's nature parks and visits museums and art galleries imagining characters for her next novel. She lives in Vancouver with her family.
