The Dame Was Trouble

A collection of Canadian Crime Fiction from the best and brightest female crime writers that the Great White North has to offer. From noir to hardboiled, and thriller to cozy mystery, these Dames know how to tell tales to thrill, chill and KILL.

FEATURING NEW AND EXCITING TALES FROM:

Kelley Armstrong(#1 New York Timesbestselling author of Otherworld and the Nadia Staffordcrime trilogy)

Elle Wild(Arthur Ellis Award-winning author of Strange Things Done)

Hermine Robinson (Anthology of New Canadian Noir)

Pat Flewwelling (Author of theHelix series)

Melodie Campbell (Derringer and Arthur Ellis Award-winning author of The Goddaughterseries and Rowena Through the Wall)

S.G. Wong (Arthur Ellis and Whistler Independent Book Award nominated author of the Lola Stark novels )

Gail Bowen(Canada’s “Queen of Crime”, author of the best-selling Joanne Kilbournmysteries)

Darusha Wehm (Author of Beautiful Redand The Home for Wayward Parrots)

**R.M. Greenaway (**Arthur Ellis Award-winning author of Cold Girland Undertow)

Natalie Vacha (In Places Between; finalist in the CBC Radio Cowboy Poetry contest*)*

Susan MacGregor (Aurora Award nominated author of The Tattooed Witch trilogy)

Alice Bienia (Arthur Ellis Award nominated author of Knight Blind)

Meghan Victoria (Antigonish Review)

M.H. Callway (Dagger, Arthur Ellis and Bony Pete Award nominated author of Windigo Fire)

Sandra Ruttan(Author of Harvest of Ruins, What Burns Within and Suspicious)

Jayne Barnard (BPAA, Aurora and Dagger Award nominee and Arthur Ellis Award-winning author of Maddie Hatter and the Deadly Diamond andWhen the Flood Falls)

Edited by Sarah L. Johnson

With Halli Lilburne

And Cat MacDonald