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Fri 4/22  12pm-1pm  “Meet the Authors Lunch” (this is a ticketed event, $25 ticket includes lunch & $14 Flyleaf gift certificate). Please call in advance to purchase your ticket: 919-942-7373 Meet Canadian Mystery Authors Vicki Delany, Elizabeth J. Duncan & Mary Jane Maffini Enjoy lunch from Foster’s Market while you can chat with veteran mystery authors Vicki Delany and Elizabeth J. Duncan.  A ticket purchase is required for this event and covers lunch and a Flyleaf gift certificate which can be used to purchase any book. Vicki Delany is one of Canada’s most prolific crime writers. She writes everything from standalone novels of psychological suspense such as Scare the Light Away and Burden of Memory, to the Constable Molly Smith books, a traditional village/police procedural series set in the British Columbia Interior, including In the Shadow of the Glacier and Negative Image, to a light-hearted historical series, Gold Digger and Gold Fever, set in the raucous heyday of the Klondike Gold Rush. Winter of Secrets received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly, and about Negative Image, The Sherbrooke Record said, “Delany is steadily making her way toward the top tier of Canadian crime writers, and readers can only hope for more.” Having taken early retirement from her job as a systems analyst in the high-pressure financial world, Vicki is settling down to the rural life in bucolic, Prince Edward County, Ontario where she rarely wears a watch. The next book in the Constable Molly Smith series, Among the Departed, will be published by Poisoned Pen Press in May 2011. After graduating from Carleton University, Ottawa, with a BA in English, Elizabeth J. Duncan worked as a writer and editor for some of Canada’s largest newspapers, including the Ottawa Citizen and Hamilton Spectator. She lived and worked in London, England for five years as a freelance writer and broadcaster. Since 1995 she has worked in communications, and now teaches writing and communication planning in the Public Relations programs at Humber College in Toronto. The Cold Light of Mourning, which won the William F. Deeck- Malice Domestic 2006 Grant for Unpublished Writers and the 2008 St. Martin’s/Malice Domestic Award for best first traditional mystery, is her first work of fiction. A Brush with Death, the second novel in the Penny Brannigan mystery series, was published in 2010. e third, A Killer’s Christmas in Wales, is scheduled for publication fall, 2011. Elizabeth lives in Toronto with her dog, Dolly, and spends several weeks each year in North Wales where her books are set. Mary Jane Maffini is a lapsed librarian, a former mystery bookstore owner, a previous president of Crime Writers of Canada and a lifelong mystery addict. In addition to the five Charlotte Adams books, she is the author of six Camilla MacPhee mysteries, two Fiona Silk adventures and nearly two dozen short stories. She has won two Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis awards for best mystery short story, as well as the Crime Writers of Canada Derrick Murdoch award. Speak Ill of the Dead was shortlisted for an Ellis for best first novel and Lament for a Lounge Lizard for best novel.e Dead Don’t Get Out Much was nominated for Deadly Pleasures Magazine’s Barry Award. She is having fun with the fih Charlotte Adams adventure: e Busy Woman’s Guide to Murder (Berkley Prime Crime April 2011!) and is grateful for all the organizing tips she gets from Charlotte. In 2012, she and her daughter, Victoria Maffini, will launch a new book collectors’ series (Berkley Prime Crime) writing as Victoria Abbott. Mary Jane lives and plots in Ottawa, Ontario, along with her long-suffering husband and two dachshunds—both princesses. Visit her at www.maryjanemaffini.com