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Anna Dowdall

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Anna can't seem to decide between Toronto and Montreal after living all over Canada and the US. She’s been a reporter, a college lecturer, a translator and an urban shepherd, as well as other things too numerous to mention/best forgotten. She was nominated for the US Katherine Paterson YA prize and for Canada’s Arthur Ellis Award in the unpublished category. Her forthcoming book, THE SUSPENSION BRIDGE, Radiant Press, 2024, has been called "an irreverent and immersive post-war fairy tale." Follow her on https://www.instagram.com/annahayesdo... ...more

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Average rating: 4.21 · 68 ratings · 44 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	April on Paris Street (31) (Mystery and Crime) 4.04 avg rating — 27 ratings — 3 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
	The Au Pair 4.17 avg rating — 18 ratings — 3 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
	The Suspension Bridge 4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings — 3 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
	After the Winter 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 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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This fast-paced story featuring Montreal journalist Bailey Summers mixes crime with two family dramas, one unsuspected by the reader, against the backdrop of an art mystery. A series of attacks on members of an art collective creates suspense and a w ...more
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I Think We’ve Been Here Before (Radiant Press), a story about the end of the world told from the perspective of a family in rural Saskatechewan, is an unexpected book and it’s not easy to characterize what makes it tick. It’s not a movie version of t ...more
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Nicolas Freeling never looked back after this first novel of his featuring the Dutch detective. Was it because of the technical bravura so clearly evidenced here or because his version of the toxic femme fatale turned victim passed, in 1962, for the ...more
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Anna Dowdall and 3 other people liked Marcella Wigg's review of Love in Amsterdam (Van der Valk #1): "Just awful. Incredibly dated, plodding, full of unbelievable plot elements, and with basically no compassion shown for the murder victim, who is depicted as almost deserving it because of her multiple partners and manipulativeness. Ugh. I try to give" Read more of this review »
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Anna Dowdall liked Danielle's review of If You Lie Down in a Field, She Will Find You There: "Goodreads strikes again with their incorrect information. Here's the blub for the CORRECT author: Colleen Brown is known primarily as a sculptor. If you lie down in a field, she will find you there is her first book. Colleen created visual artworks r" Read more of this review »
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Anna Dowdall and 4 other people liked Susan Sink's review of Agatha of Little Neon: "As a book, this is a lively, good read. Very well written and easy to read. Also hip. Also not about nuns. I mean, I am always looking for books about nuns, especially contemporary ones. These young women running a home for recovering addicts are lik" Read more of this review »
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