Susan Mayse Susan Mayse is a fourth generation Vancouver Islander who grew up on stories of the mining towns of Cumberland, Bevan, Nanaimo, and Wellington. She has written for many national and international publications including The Daily Mail, The Toronto Star, and The Malahat Review. She is also the author of a prize-winning novel, Merlin’s Web and Ginger: The Life and Death of Albert Goodwin, a BC Bestseller and winner of the Arthur Ellis Award…
March 1st sees the long-awaited release of the mystery novel, Old Growth, by Matt Hughes.It’s the sequel to Downshift, Hughes’ 1997 mystery, published originally by Doubleday Canada and re-released last year by Five Rivers Publishing. In announcing the release of Old Growth, Matt tells the following story: Both novels follow the trials and tribulations of Sid Rafferty, who is kind of an alter ego of mine — a freelance speechwriter living on Vancouver Island in…
available in print, eBook, and audio The first of the Sid Rafferty books, by Matt Hughes, Downshift, has three 5-star reviews on Amazon. 5.0 out of 5 stars Downshift is an uplift for thriller fans, May 16, 2013By Sandor – See all my reviews This review is from: Downshift: A Sid Rafferty Thriller, Book 1 (Audible Audio Edition)A really engaging and entertaining story, narrated with sharp wit, attitude, and erudite authority by Robert Gonzalez. Highly…
At the moment Matt Hughes is house-sitting in Montebelluna, near Venice, Italy. He took time from his exhausting writing schedule to have a chat with Five Rivers’ publisher, Lorina Stephens, and talk about his forthcoming new release, Old Growth, the long-awaited sequel to Downshift. LS: In this Rafferty mystery you have him dealing with the more radical side of environmentalism, in this case the old growth crises that arose in the 1990s. What is it about…
Our own Matt Hughes, author of Downshift, recently gave a talk on the basic structure of genre novels to a group of British Columbia writers. We thought you might enjoy Matt’s insights.