11:00 -12:00 :: Mystery Hour

11:00 – 11:20

Since 1997, Maureen Jennings has written seven books in the award-winning Detective Murdoch series: Except the Dying, Under the Dragon’s Tale, Poor Tom Is Cold, Let Loose the Dogs, Night’s Child, Vices of My Blood and A Journeyman to Grief — these paperbacks have all been recently re-issued by McClelland & Stewart.

Three of Jennings’s novels have been made into TV movies under the title Murder 19C: The Murdoch Mysteries, and since 2007, CityTV has broadcast the wildly popular The Murdoch Mysteries, starring Yannick Bisson. Jennings lives in Toronto.

11:20 – 11:40

In bestselling William Deverell’s latest mystery, Snow Job, Arthur Beauchamp moves to Ottawa, and all hell breaks loose. He hates Ottawa: the cold, the politics, and his place in his wife’s shadow. So when a delegation of government officials from Bhashyistan is blown sky high, Arthur is only too happy to jump to the defence of the missing suspected assassin.

11:40 – 12:00

Inspector Banks is on holiday, headed for Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco. His daughter, Tracy, home in Leeds and angry with her father, is headed for some very deep trouble. Peter Robinson’s latest Inspector Banks novel is a powerful story of how the volatile emotions of love and resentment can turn deadly when fear comes creeping in.

12:00 -1:00 :: Youth Hour

12:00 - 12:20

Gravity Brings Me Down by Natale Ghent is a smart and thoughtful story about self-discovery, acceptance, and finding friendship — all in the places you’d least expect. It features Sioux Smith, a sharp, funny, and wry teenager who sees the world of high school differently from everyone else.

12:20 – 12:40

In Apple's Angst by Rebecca Eckler, Apple is back for another story filled with drama, boys and gossip. Things in Apple’s life are slowly getting back to normal: she has a new sort of-boyfriend, and a gig interning for Angst magazine. But with an ever-annoying famous talk-show host mother, and a major secret crush on her best friend’s boyfriend, things are about to get a lot more complicated . . .

12:40 – 1:00

The Reckoning by Kelley Armstrong is the final book in the Darkest Powers trilogy, featuring Chloe Saunders, a teenager with very special powers. All three books in the series, including The Summoning and The Awakening, will be available in an omnibus edition, on sale in November from Doubleday Canada.

1:00 -2:00 :: Emerging Voices

1:00 – 1:20

Part comedy, part mystery, The Parabolist by Nicholas Ruddock is a novel about murder, sex, the medical establishment, poetry and vigilante justice on the streets of Toronto in 1975. The Anchor Canada paperback will be published in October.

1:20 – 1:40

On the Proper Use of Stars by Dominique Fortier is a sparkling, inventive debut novel inspired by Sir John Franklin’s grand — but ultimately failed — quest to discover the Northwest Passage and by his extraordinary wife, Lady Jane.

1:40 – 2:00

The Waterproof Bible by Andrew Kaufman follows Rebecca Reynolds, a young woman with a most unusual and inconvenient problem: no matter how hard she tries, she can’t stop her emotions from escaping her body and entering the world around her. It is a wholly original allegorical tale, both emotionally resonant and outlandishly fun.

2:00 -3:00 :: Read for the Cure Preview

2:00 – 2:20

From New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author Joy Fielding comes The Wild Zone, a pulse-racing story of a harmless bet gone deadly wrong.

Visit www.ReadfortheCure.ca to purchase tickets to Joy Fielding’s event with Margaret Atwood and Karen Connelly, in Toronto, on November 30, 2010.

2:20 – 2:40

In After the Falls, the sequel to her beloved memoir Too Close to the Falls, Catherine Gildiner recounts her remarkable coming–of–age in the 1960s. She takes on many personas — cheerleader, vandal, civil rights demonstrator — but when tragedy strikes, it is her role as daughter that proves to be most challenging.

Visit www.ReadfortheCure.ca to purchase tickets to Catherine Gildiner’s event with Annabel Lyon and Linden MacIntyre, in Toronto, on October 20, 2010.

2:40 – 3:00

In the whirlwind of life with three young sons, Ruth Rakoff felt in supreme control of her wide world. But when a routine mammogram revealed a tumour, that world rapidly shrank to the size of one breast. When My World Was Very Small is an intimate, colourful, one-of-a-kind memoir that celebrates life, love and family.

Visit www.ReadfortheCure.ca to purchase tickets to Ruth Rakoff’s event with Ian Brown and Camilla Gibb, in Ottawa, on October 6, 2010.

3:00 -4:00 :: World of Crime

3:00 - 3:10

Winner of the 2010 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel, High Chicago by Howard Shrier sees the return of Toronto investigator Jonah Geller, who investigates the apparent suicide of a young girl. He suspects the fabled real estate tycoon Simon Birk — the partner of the dead girl’s father — and soon Jonah must craft an audacious plan to take down one of Chicago’s most powerful men.

3:10 – 3:20

Crime Machine by Giles Blunt is the long-awaited new instalment in the award-winning, bestselling John Cardinal mystery series. The quiet of snow-covered Algonquin Bay is shattered when two decapitated bodies are found in a summer home on Trout Lake. Cardinal soon discovers this is by no means a routine murder investigation, but a horrific piece of a very twisted puzzle.

3:20 – 3:30

Never Look Away is Linwood Barclay’s latest mesmerizing thriller. Within hours of arriving at an amusement park, David Harwood’s son and wife go missing. Confused and worried, David finds himself desperately searching for any clue that could lead him to his family — even if it means unraveling a tangle of lies and deception that becomes more complicated at every turn.

3:30 – 4:00

Join three of the most talented mystery writers in Canada today, Howard Shrier, Giles Blunt and Linwood Barclay, as they discuss their craft. A question-and-answer period will follow.

4:30 -5:30 :: Humour Hour

4:30 – 4:50

The Frumkiss family doesn’t look much different from any of the others in Toronto’s Bathurst Manor, except that Grandpa is a famous Yiddish writer who ended up working for the CBC. But Grandpa’s death sets off a chain of events that force the Frumkisses to see how different their family is from all the others. The Frumkiss Family Business by Michael Wex is a novel that does for Toronto what Mordecai Richler’s books did for Montreal.

4:50 – 5:10

In this hilarious memoir, Jessica Holmes offers her witty observations on everything from her eclectic upbringing by a right-wing, Mormon father and a feminist mother, to her experiences as a missionary in Venezuela and her own trial-and-error adventures in childrearing. I Love Your Laugh is an inspirational and thoroughly side-splitting treat.

5:10 – 5:30

A brilliant follow-up to the Stephen Leacock Award-winner The Best Laid Plans, The High Road by Terry Fallis is a deeply funny satire continuing the story of Honest Angus McLintock, an amateur politician who dares to do the unthinkable: tell the truth. The Best Laid Plans was first published as a free weekly podcast on the author’s website, www.terryfallis.com