Hamilton Author Series welcomes authors, Ian Hamilton, Brad Smith and Scott Thornley for an evening of mystery and country noir.

Friday, September 28, 2012 - 7:00pm

Gallery on the Bay
231 Bay Street North
Hamilton, ON
L8R 2R1

Ian Hamilton, Brad Smith and Scott Thornley will be reading from their new novels. Ian Hamilton will be reading from his novel, Red Pole of Macau. Brad Smith will be reading from his novel, Crow's Landing. Scott Thornley will be reading from his novel, The Ambitious City.

About the Authors

IAN HAMILTON is the author of the popular Ava Lee series whose titles include The Water Rat of Wanchai, The Disciple of Las Vegas and The Wild Beasts of Wuhan. A winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel, Ian Hamilton’s work has also been picked as Top Fiction for the Year by both the Toronto Star and the Quill & Quire.
THE RED POLE OF MACAU is the fourth book in this series and is a story of suspense, intrigue and danger. The cool and stylish heroine is a complex, intriguing and rather unusual accountant. In coming to the aid of her brother, Ava is drawn deeper and deeper into Hong Kong’s dark and deadly world of organized crime.

BRAD SMITH’s employment history is wide ranging both in location and type; from farmer to signalman, insulator, truck driver and carpenter, it provides a great source of material for his entertaining novels. His titles include Busted Flush, One-Eyed Jacks and All Hat. His Big Man Coming Down the Road was the first title in the Virgil Cain series, which was named as one of the Year’s Best Crime novels by Booklist.
CROW’S LANDING, the second title in the Virgil Cain series, is a well-crafted, amusing, country noir tale with a lively array of characters. When word spreads that while fishing, Virgil hooked a mysterious steel cylinder, it attracts the attention of a ruthless drug dealer and a roller coaster ride of intrigue and mayhem begins.

SCOTT THORNLEY was born in Hamilton and is president and creative director of Scott Thornley and Company, an international design company. In 1990 Scott was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts. He divides his time between Toronto and South of France where he does most of his writing.
THE AMBITIOUS CITY is the second book in the series MacNiece Mysteries set in Dundurn City (inspired by Hamilton). In the first book Detective Inspector MacNiece was up against ruthless biker gangs and the power struggle of concrete companies for lucrative waterfront development. Now young women of colour are being murdered and MacNiece’s assistant is right in the killer’s sightlines.

Tickets are $15 and include refreshments.

For Further Information, Please Contact:
Bryan Prince Bookseller 905-528-4508 or staff@princebooks.net