News / Appearances

Durndurn will be publishing Cold Mourning early in 2014. This is the first in a police procedural series and is set in the frozen streets of Ottawa just before Christmas. Here is the first advance review:

“Deeply atmospheric and tightly plotted, Cold Mourning is Chapman’s sharpest mystery yet. In Kala Stonechild we meet a damaged, complex and courageous heroine determined to leave her complicated past behind…. Spare, haunting and unflinching, Cold Mourning will make you shiver long after you’ve put it down. A gripping read from the first line of the first page.”

― C.B. Forrest, author of the Charlie McKelvey mysteries

Anna Sweet, ex-cop turned waitress, is bar hopping her way across the U.S.A. But a middle-of-the-night phone call to Anna’s hotel room in Texas is about to end her life on the road. Her sister Cheri’s brakes failed, and she’s lying banged up in an Ottawa hospital. Cheri warns that unless Anna comes right home, she’ll be dead by Christmas.

The Midwest Book Review calls Second Chances ‘an enticing read’:

“With adulthood on the horizon, many teenaged women embrace the coming changes in their own ways. “Second Chances” is a coming of age drama, telling the story of Darlene as she faces a summer with her corruptive cousin Elizabeth, as they face the chaotic times of 1971 cottage country America. Eluded by her own dreams, Darlene will learn much in the days. “Second Chances” is an enticing read for general fiction for both young adults, and those who remember that tumultuous period in their lives.”

October 2012 http://www.midwestbookreview.com/mbw/oct_12.htm

A great review by Mystery Maven Canada:  http://mysterymavencdn.blogspot.ca/2012/10/mystery-review.html

You can read the review at this link:  http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-4597-0204-2

Canadian Materials at the University of Manitoba gave the upcoming Second Chances an excellent review, calling it “a very satisfying story”.

Read the review online: http://www.umanitoba.ca/outreach/cm/vol18/no40/secondchances.html

Patrick Walton produced a short video from CBC Radio’s Alan Neal’s recent reading at ‘A Day to Kill’ – A Capital Crime Writers’ event in October 2011 at the Ottawa Public Library.  Click here to see the video on Youtube.

Capital Crime Writers held its second writer/fan event at the Ottawa Public Library in October. Patrick Walton made a video with snippits from the day.  Have a look at the goings on!

A Day to Kill – Capital Crime Writers

The Second Wife has been nominated for the Ontario Library Association’s Golden Oak award.

“The Golden Oak Award reading program provides a unique opportunity for people in adult literacy programs to read books that are interesting and entertaining, yet are not too difficult to read.

Readers who participate in the Golden Oak program get to vote for their favourite book in the month of May and the winner is announced June 7, 2012 at the Learners’ Conference at Toronto Public Library. ”

Excerpted from the OLA News Release