Serialized Story entitled “The Last Journey” starts today, August 23rd.

To start reading a short story published in serialized form over the next week in all Sun Media newspapers across Canada, link here.

Maureen has a number of upcoming public appearances

Wordstock in Collingwood
Appearing along with Crime Writers Lynwood Barclay and Giles Blunt for a reading and discussion, Maureen will be reading publicly for the first time from Season Of Darkness on Saturday Sept 11th @ 1:30 pm.
Link here for the details

Word on the Street, Sunday Sept.26th in Toronto for two readings - link here for the details

Also, Maureen will be on tour in Windsor, and London Ontario October 12th to October 14th to promote “Shipwreck” for Good Reads Canada, as well as the Magna Cum Murder mystery writers and fan conference on the weekend of October 29th - 31 in Muncie, Indiana.
Stay tuned for more details on her upcoming appearances this fall

Does Your Mother Know now available as an E book

Link here to purchased and download.

The Cooke Agency International now in charge of foreign rights sales to Maureen’s backlist and front list

Mcclelland and Stewart, publisher of Maureen’s Murdoch Mysteries series and the upcoming WW2 trilogy, Season of Darkness, has assigned foreign rights sales of Maureen’s work to The Cooke Agency International, Krista Willis Manager.
For Foreign rights enquiries to these novels, Krista can be reached at
link

Manager, Subsidiary Rights
The Cooke Agency International
366 Adelaide Street East, Suite 501
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5A 3X9
direct tel: 647.788.4014; fax: 647.788.4019

Murdoch Mysteries series 4 kicks off production today

13 new episodes of the hit television series Murdoch Mysteries commences principal photography today. Murdoch Mysteries is a Shaftesbury Films production for CITY/Rogers in Canada, UKTV/Alibi in the UK, and distributed internationally by ITV (Granada International).

Visit the Murdoch Mysteries website here

Shipwreck is available for advance order

link here to advance order

Maureen to receive Grant Allen Award for 2011

Just announced that Maureen will be the recipient of the 2011 Grant Allen Award for crime writing.
It’s for next year (August 13) and will be presented during the Scene of the Crime festival on Wolfe Island.
Link here for the details

Except the Dying published in the Czech Republic today

The cover art for the first novel in the Murdoch series. Published in Czech by Jota.

Murdoch backlist sold to Poland

Maureen accepted an offer today for all seven books in the Murdoch series. The books will be published by Oficynka Publishing House in Poland and she looks forward to  having the series available for new readers in both Poland and their neighbour, The Czech Republic.

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Season of Darkness is now available for advance order

The first novel in her new trilogy of books set in Shropshire UK and Birmingham UK, during WW2 1940, is now available for advance order. The series will begin to be published in March 2011 by Mcclelland and Stewart.  She has spent three years researching the novels and they promise to both thrill, and move readers in a way that her fans will be familiar with from her previously published works.

US pre orders online link here

In Canada for pre orders

Link here

or here

to pre-order the book or contact your favourite independent bookseller.