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Jacques Filippi

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Born

in Cowansville, Canada

Website

http://houseofcrimeandmystery.blogspot.com/

Twitter

housecrimystery

Genre

Mystery, Historical Fiction, Horror

Influences

Stephen King, John Irving, Dennis Lehane, Michael Connelly, Linwood Ba ...more

Member Since

March 2011

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JACQUES FILIPPI is a graduate of Université de Montréal and started his career as a journalist. He has now been in the book world for over twenty years as a bookseller, translator, sales representative, and editor. He started his blog, The House of Crime and Mystery, in 2011, and cofounded the QuébeCrime Writers Festival a few years later. He is the coeditor of Montréal Noir (Akashic Books 2017) and its French edition, Noir Montréal (StJean Éditions 2023), and was a judge for the Arthur-Ellis Awards, four times. He is now hard at work on a historical crime novel set in Montreal in the early 1900s. And he is following his passion in photography.

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	Montreal Noir by John McFetridge (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jacques Filippi (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.63 avg rating — 199 ratings — published 2017 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Under Heaven (Under Heaven, #1)

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