Local Author Spotlight

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author writing crime fiction and mystery-thrillers rooted in familiar Eastern Ontario settings. His latest novel, TARA, blends real-life inspiration with a gripping, high-stakes premise. Give us an elevator pitch for your book. You have seconds to decide. Save your daughter or a complete stranger. The one you don’t choose faces a fate worse than death. What would you do? What’s unique about this story? Readers will recognize places like Cornwall, the Port Theatre, the Summerstown truck stop, Hamilton Island, and the St. Lawrence River, as well as Napanee’s Flying J, Denny’s, and Springside Park, along with Toronto’s Centre Island and Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport. These settings anchor the storyline about a human trafficking ring operating along the Highway 401 corridor from Toronto to Montréal. What first sparked the idea for this book? The idea for TARA came about five...