• In a unique approach, a character predicts the murder (and the perpetrator) before the crime has even taken place, and the tension lies in figuring out if she’s right.
• Hugh Mercer makes for an interesting protagonist as he must contend with the past as a police officer he’s left behind — and the impacts of his career on his life and mental health.
• Shane Peacock is a renowned Libris and Arthur Ellis Award-winning children’s and YA author, best known for The Boy Sherlock Holmes. As We Forgive Others will be his debut as a mystery author for adults. (Many will have read him as children and will look forward to an adult Shane Peacock novel.) The first in a series, the second Northern Gothic Mystery will publish in Fall 2025.
• In the spirit of the Inger Ash Wolfe crime novels, Shane felt that As We Forgive Others is the ideal introduction to the world of darker Canadian mysteries, presenting a more complex and intense depiction of Canada outside of Southern Ontario.
• Shane Peacock is a seven-time winner of the Junior Library Guild of America Selection, twice winner of the Arthur Ellis Award, has been shortlisted for the Governor-General’s Award, three times for the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, and the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book prize, and has been named to Kirkus Reviews’ annual Best Books list. In As We Forgive Others, Shane brings the same sharp, writerly observations to a trade market with rich characters and unique narratives.