Join two acclaimed Canadian crime writers for an afternoon of suspense, wit, and intrigue. Sam Wiebe brings gritty West Coast noir to life in Guns Across the River, while Iona Whishaw offers an elegant historical mystery in A False and Fatal Claim, featuring amateur sleuth Lane Winslow. Moving between contemporary corruption and the hidden tensions of the past, these novels explore how secrets surface in unexpected places — and how the past continues to shape the present.
Location: C420 UBC Robson Square
Type: Fiction, Reading, Crime
Moderator: Charles Demers, Noonday Dark: the new gripping psychological mystery (Dr. Boudreau Mysteries) (Douglas & McIntyre)
Readers: Sam Wiebe, Guns Across the River: A Wakeland Novel (Harbour Publishing) | Iona Whishaw, A False and Fatal Claim (TouchWood Editions)
About The Readers
Sam Wiebe
Sam Wiebe is an award-winning writer based in the Pacific Northwest. His fiction has won the Kobo Emerging Writers Prize and two Crime Writers of Canada awards, and been nominated for the Edgar, Hammett, Shamus, and City of Vancouver book prizes. His articles have appeared in CBC Books, The National Post, Quill & Quire, The Walrus, Montecristo, and The Tyee, among others, and he’’s been Writer in Residence for both the Vancouver Public Library and Simon Fraser University. His latest novel featuring Vancouver detective Dave Wakeland is Guns Across the River. A lifelong movie fan, Shot in Vancouver: Adventures in Hollywood North is Wiebe’s first nonfiction book.
Iona Whishaw
A passion for history and her family’s WW2 intelligence work inform Iona Whishaw’s period mysteries. She won the 2026 Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence, 2021 Bony Blythe Light Mystery Award and she has been a finalist for 4 other Canadian and US prizes including two Lefty awards. Her books have consistently been on Canadian best seller lists. A False and Fatal Clain is her 14th book and has been on various Canadian best seller lists and is one of this year’s national indie book sellers choices. She lives in Vancouver where she wrestles with sourdough and plays in a Balkan dance band.
Name
words