Join us for an afternoon of suspense with two acclaimed Canadian crime writers Daniel Kalla, The Deepest Fake (‎Simon & Schuster) and Sam Wiebe, Guns Across the River: A Wakeland Novel (Harbour Publishing).

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) | Daniel Kalla, The Deepest Fake (Simon & Schuster)

About The Moderator

Charles Demers

Charles Demers is a Vancouver- based comedian, author, and playwright— including of three plays for young audiences. A staple of the Canadian comedy scene, he has been one of the stars of CBC radio’s The Debaters for more than 20 years, and provided the voice of Walter the Slug on the Emmy-winning Netflix preschool series Beat Bugs, based on the music of The Beatles.

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.

Daniel Kalla

Daniel Kalla is a Vancouver emergency physician and bestselling author of sixteen novels, translated into twelve languages. His medical and science thrillers explore subjects including pandemics, the opioid crisis, genetics, and artificial intelligence. A clinical professor at UBC, he splits his time between practicing emergency medicine and writing his novels.