Maxie Dara Book Launch

Join us as welcome Maxie Dara to celebrate the launch of The Grim Reaper’s Guide to Catching a Killer, a delightfully fun debut mystery by a local Hamilton author.

Murder is not her department.

It’s not like it used to be. Modern-day grim reapers wear business casual, not black cloaks, and they don’t carry scythes, they work for S. C. Y. T. H. E. (Secure Collection, Yielding, and Transportation of Human Essences), where the Department of Natural Causes is the least exciting gig. And that’s how Kathy Valence likes it: boring and predictable. Then, she goes to pick up a new client and finds his soul is missing.

This is the wildest case of her career . . . and one wrong move could cost Kathy her job, not to mention her life.

Maxie Dara is a writer and actor from Ontario, Canada. She has been a freelance journalist focusing on the local arts and culture scene for more than five years, with bylines in publications such as Hamilton Magazine and Beyond James, among others. She is also a two-time award-winning playwright, taking home the Best of Fringe award at the 2017 Hamilton Fringe Festival for the musical comedy This Is Not a Musical: The Musical! and the 2020 Torpedo Prize for her play Alone Together, a pandemic drama. Maxie knew she wanted to be a writer at the age of seven, when she first fell in love with the written word. She also wanted to be a mermaid but has mostly focused on the writing side of things.

Presented by Penguin Random House of Canada and Epic Books.
Books will be available to purchase at the event.