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HUNTING HUMANS
McClelland and Stewart -revised-Can/95Pocket Books US/88Penguin Books UK/89Jimbun Shoin Japan/95 HUNTING HUMANSThe Rise Of TheModern MultipleMurderer In studying American multiple murderers, anthropologist Elliott Leyton writes, “I see their motives as so obvious and their gratifications as so intense that I can only marvel at how few of them walk the streets of America.” Hunting Humans, a classic…
Read MoreSOLE SURVIVOR
“His compassionate approach has both humility and integrity and makes very good reading.”The New Statesman “As in Hunting Humans the writing is vigorous and straightforward, the language in turn serviceable and subtle. Hunting Humans was an international success. Sole Survivor, being set squarely in the playing fields of reality will almost certainly enjoy a similar…
Read MoreSandra B. Tooze
Sandra Tooze garnered world-wide acclaim for her book  Muddy Waters: The Mojo Man. Eric Clapton wrote the foreword, and Levon Helm and Mick Jagger both endorsed it in back-cover quotes. The reviewer for America’s preeminent blues magazine, Living Blues, called it “a first-rate biography … An illumination and a joy, it deserves a place on our shelves as…
Read MoreLosing It
Stephen Tesher is a playwright whose work has been performed in Toronto and New York. He earned an MFA in play writing from The New School and an MA in Education from City College of New York. He teaches 7th grade English in Nyack, New York. Manuscript Available Losing It A dark tragic-comedy of floundering, reckless…
Read MoreMen of Blood
McClelland & Stewart 2002 Men of Blood “Probably the world’s most widely consulted expert on serial killing and a godhead of modern criminal psychology.â€London Sunday Telegraph A milkman shares a take-out supper with his cousin and then fatally stabs him.…A man breaks into a shelter for abused women and snuffs out the life of his…
Read MoreMystery Islands
Discovering the Ancient Pacific Mystery Islands Discovering the Ancient Pacific REVIEWS FOR TOM KOPPEL’S LOST WORLD and EBB AND FLOW“Koppel knows how to tell a story.”Globe and Mail “Koppel treats the reader to eyewitness descriptions of scientists crawling through nearly inaccessible caves high in the hills of Alaska and British Columbia, dredging for artifacts in the seabed, camping…
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Discovering the Ancient Pacific “a man of inquisitive mind and substantial beachcombing and sailing experience. He tells his stories in an engaging style, be they of gathering clams on tidal flats or harrowing escapes from tidal races. They are woven into a well-paced and thoughtful narrative…†Oceanography Universityof the South Pacific Press 2012 Mystery Islands…
Read MoreRebels, Spies And Some Good Guys
Ben Hoffman a Canadian who lives near Ottawa, came to peace negotiations though prison administration in Ontario. His formal studies in peace and conflict continued in the US at the Fletcher School and at Harvard. He was recruited to the Carter Centre in 2000. When he left he continued working in peace negotiations in Africa and…
Read MoreDAVID PRATT’S PASSION FOR QUOTATIONS
Ullstein German 2009PMM Editorial Catalan 2008Ersen Estonia 2009JR Publishers UK 2008Walker US 2007Douglas & McIntyre Can 2007 DAVID PRATT’S PASSION FOR QUOTATIONS “When I was a kid in Britain other children collected stamps, I collected quotations. I started when I was 14,†says David Pratt. Since then he has amassed more than 7300 quotations. An avid…
Read MoreThe Little Book of Stress Relief
David Posen, M.D is a family physician who counsels patients on stress management and gives seminars on how we live and what we can do to improve the quality of our lives. Key Porter (CAN) Â 2003 The Little Book of Stress Relief From the bestselling author of The Little Book of Stress Relief comes the definitive…
Read MoreButterfly of Venus
Susan Ferrier MacKay is a journalist and writer who lives outside Toronto. HarperCollins, North America, 2014 Droemer, Germany 2014 Butterfly of Venus An Erotic Novel At age 40, Elizabeth Harding has been harboring a sexual secret. Despite her worldliness as a woman, and as head of a hugely successful music talent management company, she has…
Read MorePraise For Power, Prime Ministers
Robert Lewis began his career as a member of the exalted Ottawa Press Gallery reporting for the Montreal Star. He later was a correspondent for Time-Life News Service, and in 1993, he was appointed editor-in-chief of Maclean’s. In 2001 he became Vice President of Content Development at Rogers Media, and in 2009 he founded Robert Lewis…
Read MoreBiography
Biography I was born in Hamilton, Ontario in the fifties. I have one sister living in Binbrook Ontario who I’m close to and one brother in Toronto who I enjoy long telephone conversations with but seldom see. My mother is living with assisted care in Hamilton. I visit regularly. My father passed away a few…
Read MoreMy 30-Year Relationship With a Fictional Character
By Beverley Slopen Thirty years ago, author Howard Engel introduced his lovable and amusing sleuth Benny Cooperman. Benny, the Jewish private detective from small town Ontario has now appeared in 12 adventures and is hailed as a Canadian treasure. “The great Canadian detective did not exist until Howard Engel invented Benny Cooperman,” wrote Andrew Ryan…
Read MoreJewish Book Award for Lifetime Achievement to Howard Engel
Citation by Cynthia Good, Engel’s Long Time Editor In the year that Howard Engel’s first novel The Suicide Murders was published, mysteries appeared featuring such well known PIs as Mike Hammer, Lew Archer, Travis McGee and Spenser. How daring to introduce a Benny Cooperman to that list! With Benny, Howard proved that a “Yiddishe Kopf “can overcome the…
Read MoreThe Man Who Forgot How To Read
“In Engel’s memoir, he relates the difficult journey from bookworm word-jockey to near-illiterate and back again; a successful mystery novelist in his native Canada, Engel awoke one morning to discover he’d lost the ability to read. Soon, he’s informed that he suffered a stroke while asleep, and is afflicted with alexia sine agraphia, a condition…
Read MoreHistorical Mysteries
Edinburgh 1879, young Arthur Conan Doyle and his professor Dr. Joseph Bell are plunged into the thickets of municipal corruption in their race to rescue an innocent from the hangman. A serial killer is stalking Hemingway’s Paris of 1925. When Laure, an exotic beauty, is killed, Michael Ward, a young reporter, gets involved.
Read MoreBenny Cooperman Mysteries
Vanessa Moss, the sexy siren in the executive suite, hires Benny to protect her. He gets more trouble than he expected. Benny mixes with Grantham’s elite who buy, trade and steal paintings — and also murder. Benny is awash in black-flies, cults, and murder in the Canadian wilderness, while tracking a celebrity evangelist.CBC TV Film…
Read MoreMemory Book
Korean edition “Engel has produced one of the most unusual and affecting mysteries ever.â€Kirkus Review “This is a slick mystery, but it’s also a terrific recovery tale.â€The Globe and Mail “…one of the best Benny Cooperman mysteries yet…Engel does a masterful job…an intriguing perspective.â€Quill & Quire “A fascinating mystery…â€Library Journal “Probably his most talked about…
Read MorePraise for Howard Engel
“Mr Engel is a born writer, a natural stylist…This is a writer who can bring a character to life in a few lines.” Ruth Rendell “Engel can turn a phrase as neatly as Chandler…Benny Cooperman novels [are] first-class entertainment, stylishly written, the work of an original, distinctive, and distinctively Canadian talent.†Julian Symons “Benny Cooperman…
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