• In the fourth book in The Paradise Café series, Charlotte Frayne takes on similar cases from two women at opposite ends of the class divide, examining how one’s class impacts their experience throughout a police investigation.
• Flush with historic detail, yet modern with its forward-thinking female protagonist, Jennings enjoys the chance to write the female characters she’s been unable to in her previous series.
• Jennings is the author of the ever-popular Murdoch series, adapted to television for the CBC which has been on the air since 2008.
• Jennings finally has the chance to write the women characters she’s been unable to in her previous series. The Paradise Café series features, Charlotte Frayne – a woman private investigator – in Toronto in 1936–37.
• Praise from The Globe and Mail for the second Paradise Café book, November Rain, “Jennings has made the jump from Victorian Toronto to the Depression era with ease and, once again, proves that Canadian history is far from dull.”
• The first book in the series, Heat Wave (released March 2019) 3,343 (UTP); November Rain (released November 2020) sold 2,226 (UTP); Cold Snap (released December 2022) sold 1,550 (UTP)
• In 2024, Jennings has received Crime Writers of Canada’s Grand Master Award, an lifetime achievement award given to a Canadian crime writer with a substantial body of work who has garnered national and international recognition.